Online Continuing Medical Education
The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment at Children’s Hospital offers online continuing medical education (CME) for professionals interested in learning more about specific fetal conditions and surgical interventions.
Currently, we have three online CME modules available:
- Management of Ventral Wall Defects: From the Womb to Home
- Fetal Myelomeningocele Repair: Tribulations and Trials
- Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Lesions
Course descriptions and links to register for each are listed below.
All are eligible for CME credit for physicians, and some are eligible for continuing education (CE) credit for nurses.
The Children’s Hospital is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing education for physicians. The Hospital is also an approved provider of continuing nurse education though the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association (PSNA), an accrediting body of the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation (ANCC).
Management of Ventral Wall Defects: From the Womb to Home
Among the many issues clinicians face today, staying current with advances in prenatal diagnosis, perinatal management and surgical repair of congenital anomalies is becoming a major challenge. This online educational activity will provide participants with practical, evidence-based techniques for the management of select ventral wall defects and enhance clinicians’ skill in diagnosing, counseling and managing pregnancies complicated by these anomalies; and caring for neonates with these defects.
This CME activity is intended to meet the educational needs and practice skills of maternal-fetal medicine physicians, obstetricians, neonatologists, family practitioners, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses, pediatric surgeons, pediatricians, genetic counselors, social workers and case managers.
Upon completion of this enduring material, participants will be able to:
- Recall the differential diagnosis and associated pathophysiology for ventral wall defects.
- Describe the challenges in prenatal management of pregnancies complicated by a fetus with a ventral wall defect.
- Discuss the immediate management and updated standards of neonatal care and delivery room management for neonates with an abdominal wall defect.
- Describe surgical repair, recommended follow-up and outcomes associated with select abdominal wall defects.
For physicians
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. There is no fee for this activity.
For nursing professionals
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This program is approved for 1.0 contact hour. There is no fee for this educational activity.
Fetal Myelomeningocele Repair: Tribulations and Trials
Among the many issues clinicians face today, staying current with advances in fetal therapy is becoming a major challenge. This online educational activity will provide participants with practical, evidence-based techniques for the management of myelomeningocele (MMC) and enhance clinicians’ skill in diagnosing, counseling and managing pregnancies complicated by the most severe form of spina bifida.
This CME activity is intended to meet the educational needs and practice skills of maternal-fetal medicine physicians, obstetricians, neonatologists, family practitioners, advanced practice nurses, registered nurses, pediatric surgeons, pediatricians, genetic counselors, social workers and case managers.
Upon completion of this enduring material, participants will be able to:
- Review the natural history of myelomeningocele diagnosed before birth.
- Identify the indications for fetal myelomeningocele repair.
- Discuss the results from the “Management of Myelomeningocele Study” (MOMS).
For physicians
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. There is no fee for this activity.
For nursing professionals
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This program is approved for 1.0 contact hour. There is no fee for this educational activity.
Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment of Lung Lesions
The Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment offers this one-hour, lecture-based program in fetal medicine to introduce physicians to fetal lung anomalies.
The program covers:
- fetal lung lesions and their effects;
- congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation (CCAM) — pathophysiology, prenatal natural history, prenatal diagnosis, maternal mirror syndrome, fetal therapy, predicting outcomes with CVR (congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation volume ratio), fetal surgical approach, rationale for postnatal resection and outcomes data;
- ex utero intrapartum therapy (EXIT) resection of fetal lung lesions; and
- fetal sequestrations.
For physicians
Physicians may claim 1.0 AMA PRA Category 2 credit™ for this activity.
Live CME events
If you’d prefer to learn in person, see our live CME page for a list of upcoming events from the Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment. For additional CME conferences from other experts at Children’s Hospital, see CHOP CME.
More information
For more information about any of our CME programs, contact us at 1-800-IN-UTERO (1-800-468-8376) or use our online contact form.
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