Activity Description:

The Grand Rounds Series aims to offer its audience a wide variety of topics from a diverse group of speakers to not only help them remain current on the latest advances in medicine, but to also assist them as they continue to grow professionally. Medicine grand rounds are an integral component of medical education, teaching new information and enhancing clinical reasoning skills. Topics and speakers are selected to provide clinical providers with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in internal medicine. This presentation will focus on the history of iliac aneurysm disease, its relation to other aneurysms, and the various treatment options available for patients.

Target Audience: 

This course is designed for hospitalists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, advance practice nurses, registered nurses, allied health professionals, physicians and residents.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the indications and contraindications for new modalities in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of Internal Medicine conditions.
• Formulate prioritized differential diagnoses for the clinical presentations of specific medical conditions, diagnoses, and diseases.
• Apply clinical guidelines to patients under their care with an understanding of the rationale behind the guidelines and the expected outcomes of specific medical conditions, diagnoses, diseases.
• Integrate research techniques related to specific medical conditions, diagnoses, and diseases, into their own clinical, translational or basic science research.

Moderator:

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Credit Designation:

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1^TM.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Commercial Support:  

This Activity was developed without support from any ineligible company.*The ACCME defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Note: The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical service directly to patients to be commercial interests – unless the provider of clinical services is owned, or controlled by, and ACCME defined ineligible company.

Disclosure: 

The HCA Healthcare Continental Division is committed to providing CME that is balanced, objective, and evidenced-based. In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Integrity and Independence all parties involved in content development are required to disclose all conflicts of interest with ACCME defined ineligible companies. The HCA Healthcare Continental Division has identified, reviewed, and mitigated all conflicts of interest that speakers, authors, course directors, planners, peer reviewers, or relevant staff disclose prior to the delivery of any educational activity. The CME planning committee who are in a position to control the content of this CME Activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.