Circle of Care Programs

Regional Workshops

The 4 regional workshops are designed to provide learners with a "hands-on" approach and the opportunity to interact with nationally recognized faculty. Each meeting will commence with 3 case-based format discussions, followed by 3 breakout sessions in the form of workshops. Each workshop will focus on a particular theme (ie, diagnosis, clinical measurement tools, and patient care) and on various topics within those themes, allowing participants, through case-based simulations, to interact with each other through a workbook-based discussion.

Faculty will spend time reviewing information with the audience, listening to concerns, offering their personal experience, and facilitating communication that will lead to concrete, practical suggestions for adoption of the proposed change(s). These discussions will be initiated via the use of such interactive, participatory tools as an Audience Response System.

The regional meetings are scheduled as follows:

March 7- Closed -
Raleigh Marriott City Center
500 Fayetteville Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
Phone: (919) 833-1120
Fax: (919) 334-0290

March 14 - Closed -
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
2025 Avenue of the Stars
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Direct Dial: (310) 551-3333
Hotel Direct: (310) 228-1234
Fax: (310) 551-3395

March 21 - Register -
The Westin Indianapolis
Room Name: Grand Ballroom 1&2
50 South Capitol Avenue
Indianapolis, Indiana 46204
Phone: (317) 231-3976
Fax: (317) 231-3989

March 28 - Register -
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
700 Aliceanna Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone: (410) 385-3000
Fax : (410) 895-1900

Each attendee is invited to breakfast at 7:00 AM.
The program officially begins at 8:00 AM and ends at 12:15 PM.

VHATV - Live Satellite Broadcast

The satellite broadcasts consist of a presentation taped from the faculty Consensus Meeting. This broadcast will be aired 3 times at approximately 6,600 hospitals and community-based clinics.

Learners can view the broadcast at participating hospitals, institutions, clinics, or medical practices, or can log on to the Archives section of this web resource center to watch the presentation. Onsite viewers and hospital CME managers will be present to handle sign-in sheets and evaluations. Broadcasts will be followed by a live question-and-answer discussion among the group, moderated by a faculty member of the initiative. Each broadcast will consist of a 45-minute case study, with interaction among the faculty and the audience, and a 15-minute question-and-answer session.

The airings will take place as follows:

TBD

Registration coming soon.

Toolkit

The success or failure of education is based on the nature and quality of the didactic design and strategy, and on sound implementation practices. Ensuring that the education provided is integrated into ongoing patient care for the health care professional through an enabling activity, such as a toolkit, can enhance the effectiveness of the overall educational strategy. To do so, one has to consider that any such enabling tool is specific to the audience and the therapeutic area, is available to all participants, and is educationally consistent and synergistic with the overall learning objectives.

The Fibromyalgia Circle of Care toolkit is intended to be a comprehensive set of analytical, diagnostic, and planning resources that will assist participants in reinforcing the overall goals, objectives, and learnings derived from the Fibromyalgia Circle of Care initiative.

The goal of the toolkit is not to render any statements or conclusions surrounding clinical data, guidelines, or models, but rather to enlighten, reinforce, and provide easy access to information and best practices attained from the Fibromyalgia Circle of Care initiative through the following:

• Providing the necessary information (based on the knowledge of fibromyalgia, derived from psychologists, rheumatologists and other physicians who treat patients with the disease and allied disorders)
• Facilitating appropriate assessment and care of patients with fibromyalgia (through algorithms, guidelines, and images)
• Summarizing the coordination of appropriate care via flowcharts, referral patterns, and patient follow-up
• Reinforcing the development of appropriate therapeutic strategies and their rationale when managing patients with fibromyalgia

Coming soon.