Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Guided Joint Injections Educational Activities


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Date & Location
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 8:30 AM - 6:00 PM, UC San Diego Center for Bleeding and Clothing Disorders, San Diego, CA

Target Audience
Specialties - Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine-Family Practice, Orthopaedic Surgery, Pediatrics, Radiation Oncology, Radiology
Professions - Fellow/Resident, Medical Assistant, Medical Student, Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Physical Therapist, Physical Therapist Assistant, Physician, Physician Assistant, Radiology Technician, Student Physical Therapist

Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (8.00 hours), ABA MOCA Part 2 (8.00 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (8.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (8.00 hours)

Overview


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The UC San Diego Musculoskeletal Ultrasound and Guided Joint Injections Educational Activities have been created to provide a comprehensive modular curriculum to teach point-of-care musculoskeletal ultrasound for the evaluation of ankles, knees, elbows, hips and spine, and to guide intra-articular needle placement for injections and aspirations. Small groups with a high faculty to participant ratio provides a rich and interactive learning environment with ample opportunity for hands-on practice with colleagues and patient volunteers. Course participants will learn basic ultrasound physics, how to operate ultrasound machines (including the use of small emerging small hand-held devices), sono-anatomy and sono-pathology of important arthritic conditions as well as ultrasound-guided joint injection techniques. The curriculum will include how to recognize joint bleeds and distinguish between simple and complex effusions, as well as the Joint Activity and Damage Exam (JADE), a validated joint ultrasound protocol for evaluation of hemophilic joints.

This program is offered several times annually, and is held in San Diego, California at the UC San Diego Center for Bleeding and Clothing Disorders at UC San Diego Health.



Course Agenda

Day 1 - Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training for Hemophilia and Other Arthritic Conditions: Elbow, Knee, Ankle, and JADE Protocol

**Classroom with a 2:1, Student-to-Faculty Ratio

In order to attend the live, hands-on course, registrants must have completed the following pre-course online programs:


Hemophilia provider registrants: Both the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training for Arthritic Conditions: Ankle, Knee and Elbow – Basics and Techniques Online Program and the Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training in Hemophilia Online Program.

All other registrants: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Training for Arthritic Conditions: Ankle, Knee and Elbow – Basics and Techniques Online Program

This is due to the accelerated nature of the new course format. 

If you would like to extend your learning experience, we offer an additional program, Vascular Ultrasound Mastery for Physicians which will happen prior to this course and after the ASH conference.

 

Statement of Need
Arthritic conditions are frequent, and benefit from symptomatic relief measures as a bridge to joint replacement. Especially hemophilic arthropathy is a debilitating condition, caused by frequent joint bleeding.  The clinical exam to diagnose and treat arthritic conditions, joint problems and musculoskeletal abnormalities, including hemarthrosis is unreliable, since range of motion deficits, warmth, swelling and pain are non-specific and don’t permit the distinction between conditions. Therefore, point-of-care imaging is rapidly advancing and has become critical to practice state-of-the-art musculoskeletal medicine. High resolution Musculoskeletal Ultrasound (MSKUS) with Power Doppler capacity is an imaging technique, increasingly available due to technological advances, that permits point-of-care hand-held ultrasound scanning. Therefore, MSKUS is now introduced into many musculoskeletal disciplines, including orthopedics, rheumatology, sports medicine, primary care, and hemophilia treatment centers. MSKUS permits ultrasound-guided interventions on multiple levels. MSKUS is a rapid, convenient, highly sensitive and a non-invasive imaging method for the diagnosis of cartilage abnormalities, joint effusions, joint bleeds, muscle tears, tendon tears and inflammation, soft tissue masses, and peripheral nerve conditions. It is also a valuable tool to follow joint health long-term by individual assessment of synovial hypertrophy, inflammation and cartilage health. However, training to diagnose and manage arthritic conditions, including hemophilic arthropathy is required. This CME course will provide training in MSKUS, and also provide specific knowledge regarding hemophilic arthropathy, enabling hemophilia providers to use MSKUS as point-of care imaging tool to assist with diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal pains similar to other disciplines.


Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, learners should be able to:

  1. Describe MSKUS basics, physics and knobology.
  2. Discuss the basic operations of an ultrasound machine.
  3. Interpret basic structural abnormalities by sono-pathological findings.
  4. Describe the diagnosis of effusions.
  5. Describe bloody from non-bloody effusions.
  6. Describe a diagnostic MSKUS recognizing hemarthrosis, synovitis, and structural abnormalities (such as meniscus, tendons, and ligaments).
  7. Describe synovitis by Power Doppler.
  8. Describe cartilage health, soft tissue and synovial hypertrophy, and osteochondral lesions.
  9. Describe techniques and protocols for performing ultrasound-guided injections.
  10. Apply ultrasound-guided needle placement.
  11. Quantify cartilage health, soft tissue and synovial hypertrophy, and osteochondral lesions.
  12. Interpret and apply sono-anatomy of ankles, knees, and elbows.
  13. Apply standard MSKUS transducer positions for ankles, knees, and elbows

Registration

 

Registration Fee - $1,900 

*For those funded, there will still be a $500 admin fee to cover cost of the course and this fee is non-refundable.

Cancellation Policy
For paid registrants, if cancellation is received up to 30 days or more prior to the start of the conference, a cancellation fee of 50% the reg fee will apply. Cancellations received between 15-30 days prior to the conference date are subject to a cancellation fee of 75% of the reg fee. No refunds will be allowed for cancellations received within 15 days of the program date.

Sufficient enrollment must be met in order to present any course. UC San Diego reserves the right to cancel the course if enrollment is insufficient or due to other emergency-related events beyond our control. When classes are canceled, every effort will be made to contact you 30 days prior the scheduled course date and 100% of your registration fees will be reimbursed.

In the unlikely event that the course is canceled, UC San Diego Center for Bleeding and Clothing Disorders, is responsible only for a full refund of the registration fee and not for transportation, hotel accommodations or any miscellaneous expenses. We highly recommend that you protect your trip and/or airline tickets by buying trip protection coverage.


Accreditation
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of California San Diego School of Medicine designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 8.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AAPA: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 8.00 hours of Category 1 credit for completing this program.

Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME. For the purpose of relicensure, the California Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (report up to 8.00 hours of credit and list "CME Category 1" as the provider number).

Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing education for pharmacists coursework which meets the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and is accepted as continuing education by the Medical Board of California.

Surgeons: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.


Additional Information


Accommodations
We are committed to ensuring that our programs are accessible to all individuals. For general information or to request reasonable accommodations, please contact ucsdmskus@health.ucsd.edu at your earliest convenience. All in-person events are wheelchair accessible.  Service animals specifically trained to assist a person with a disability are welcome. No other animals, including pets, therapy animals, or emotional support animals, are allowed.

Cultural & Linguistic Competency and Implicit Bias
Continuing medical education (CME) providers are required by state Assembly Bills 1195 and 241, and the standards created by the California Medical Association (CMA), to include components that address cultural and linguistic competency and implicit bias in CME activities. The planners and presenters of this activity has been asked to provide meaningful consideration of these standards in the selection and presentation of content.  Additional information and resources are available on the UC San Diego CPD website. 

Audio / Video Consent
This event may be audio and/or video recorded for future use or distribution. For virtual events, any engagement during the presentation (audio, video, chat, Q&A submission, etc.) will be captured and included. Participant microphones and cameras are generally disabled by default, and can always be manually disabled by participant. Depending on the type of event, publication of the recordings might be on a publicly available website or on an access-restricted site. By registering for this event, you give UC San Diego the right to use your name, voice, image, written text, or video footage without compensation and waive the right to inspect or approve any document in which these appear.

Covid-19 Health & Safety
We follow state and local guidelines and protocols related to COVID-19 safety measures. At this time, no restrictions are in place for the State of California and San Diego County.  We encourage each attendee to decide what works for them and wear a face mask if that is their preferred choice.  We reserve the right to update COVID related expectations at any time, should local and state guidelines change and prevailing COVID rates increase.