Post-meeting Resources
Course Description and Special Features
WHY ATTEND?
In medical school, residency, and fellowship training, you learned how to provide high quality patient care. At IDSA’s Annual Meeting, you keep pace with cutting-edge medical science. But what good does this knowledge do you—or your patients—if your practice struggles to stay afloat?
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This two-day meeting will specifically address current trends affecting the practice of infectious diseases. By attending, you will learn ways to improve practice efficiency and increase profitability, so that you can concentrate on what you do best: providing quality patient care. Hear from experts about timely issues that are relevant to your work—including in-depth discussions on the future of the U.S. health care system, the role of the ID specialist in quality improvement, the challenges of human resource management, how to negotiate with infection control contracts, wound care management billing and coding, and how to resolve conflicts.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Practice Managers’ Roundtable—Practice managers will have a special opportunity to meet with peers at two roundtable sessions that will enable them to share ideas about innovative, practical approaches to running an ID practice. Multiple Breakout Sessions—Break-out style sessions provide a variety of learning opportunities tailored to your specific needs.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
• Infectious diseases specialists in clinical practice
• Practice managers, office managers, and office staff in ID practices
• Infectious diseases specialists in hospital settings
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Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Accreditation Statement for Physicians
IDSA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians.
Credit Designation Statement
IDSA designates this educational activity for a maximum 17.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Commercial Support Statement
IDSA follows and supports the ACCME guidelines for commercial support.
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Questions
For all meeting logistics inquiries contact:
Danielle M. Stiffler
IDSA Meetings Coordinator
dstiffler@idsociety.org
p (703) 299-5738
or
Deborah A. Repasy
IDSA Meetings Staff Assistant
drepasy@idsociety.org
p (703) 740-4789
For all clinical affairs inquiries contact:
Jason Scull
Program Officer, Clinical Affairs
jscull@idsociety.org
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