These courses are intended for internal hospital staff.

Activity Description:

The Spine Conference Journal Club provides educational opportunities that support lifelong learning, based on identified gaps and potential areas of improvement within our system of care. Journal Club activities are offered to increase providers knowledge and share current research pertaining to spine care, upcoming challenging spine cases, reviewing new technology available. Participants will learn about spine complications and review cases in a morbidity/mortality format. Journal Club is to increase provider knowledge of evidence-based medicine and best practices, increase research knowledge and principles, with the ultimate goal of providing improved quality of patient care. 

Target Audience:

Spine Surgeon Physicians

Learning Objectives:

• Identify different techniques to surgically treat spine conditions.
• Summarize educational knowledge of spine pathology and conditions. 
• Review up-to-date pertinent spine topics and research methods through reviews and discussions of articles and literature.
• Improve patient outcomes and prevent complications.

Moderator:

Michael S. Shen, MD

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 Credit(s)™. 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 (ACCME) Standards for Integrity and Independence all parties in control of content are required to disclose all conflicts of interest with ACCME defined ineligible companies. None of the planners, faculty, and those in control of this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.​