Program Information
Module 1 - The Art & Science of Mammography
G.W. Eklund, MD, FACR
Society of Breast Imaging Past President
Clinical Professor of Radiology
Oregon Health Sciences University
Medical College of Wisconsin
Medical Director, Pacific Breast Center
Beaverton, OR
- Image quality revisited: Recurring problems & practical solutions
- The art of communicating with patients with some thought about the transducer and palpation
- Unusual lesions and the lessons they teach
- Ductography: Practical, useful, simple
- Invasive breast cancer: Understanding, detecting and working it up
- Breast calcifications: Biopsy, follow or ignore?
Oakstone Medical Publishing designates this educational activity for a maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Module 2 - Digital Mammography
Chris I. Flowers, MBBS, FRCR
Associate Professor of Radiology
UCSF Mount Zion, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
- Assessment of digital image quality
- Digital mammography concepts
- New opportunities for digital mammography—Dual energy and tomosynthesis
- The reading room in the age of digital mammography
- Making the transition from analog to digital mammography
- Breast imaging workstations
a) Integrating workstation display software with PACS, RIS, and Reports generation software
b) Integrating off-site screening facilities into a central reading station
Oakstone Medical Publishing designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Module 3 - Advanced Breast Imaging and Percutaneous Tissue Diagnosis
R. James Brenner, MD, JD, FACR, FCLM
Society of Breast Imaging Past President
Director of Breast Imaging
Bay Imaging Consultants
Professor of Clinical Radiology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
- Image guided biopsy (fine needle aspiration and core biopsy): Techniques, rationale, issues and pitfalls: Stereotactic, ultrasound, MRI, preoperative needle localization
- Controversies in management of high risk breast lesions and issues involved with sentinel node biopsy
- Breast MRI: Silicone and tumor evaluation, Part 1
- Breast MRI: Silicone and tumor evaluation, Part 2
- Alternative breast imaging modalities: PET, CT, tomosynthesis, thermography and a few others
- Evaluation of lesions seen initially on one view only
Oakstone Medical Publishing designates this educational activity for a maximum of 9 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Module 4 - Medical Legal and Risk Management Implications in Breast Imaging
R. James Brenner, MD, JD, FACR, FCLM
Society of Breast Imaging Past President
Director of Breast Imaging
Bay Imaging Consultants
Professor of Clinical Radiology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
- Medical legal aspects of clinical breast imaging and reporting: Part 1
- Medical legal aspects of clinical breast imaging and reporting: Part 2
- Preventable causes of false negative breast imaging studies
- Medical legal considerations of FFDM, CAD, and evolving technologies
- Risk Management for facilities, radiologists, and administrators
Oakstone Medical Publishing designates this educational activity for a maximum of 6 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Description
Breast Imaging and Intervention: A Comprehensive Review, features key presentations on the most recent, clinically relevant findings, best practices and procedures and advances in breast imaging that are happening today. These developments include all the new techniques and protocols for producing the interpreting mammography examinations. The self-instructional format allows you to earn credits as your time permits.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Identify and remedy deficiencies in image quality
- Discuss special requirements for digital imaging quality
- Discuss anatomical and positioning factors that affect optimal tissue visualization
- Assess the opportunity, responsibility and techniques for the radiologist to significantly reduce patient anxiety
- Demonstrate the radiologist’s role in helping patients acquire a clearer understanding of the imaging findings, their significance and the appropriatemanagement of imaging detected and biopsy-diagnosed lesions
- Apply techniques for optimally communicating benign ormalignant findings to the patient
- Differentiate the importance and techniques to provide some good news with any reporting of bad news
- Distinguish the different types of non-invasive breast cancer
- Recognize differences in the radiographic presentation of different forms of non-invasive breast cancer
- Describe the requirements for reporting workflow
CME Information
Accreditation
Oakstone Medical Publishing is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing
medical education for physicians.
Designation
Oakstone Medical Publishing designates this enduring material for a maximum of 26 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The approved credits shown include:
- 15 hours in mammography (all 4 Modules)
- 6 hours in digital mammography (Module 2)
- 3 hours in ultrasound-guided breast biopsy (Modules 1 and 3)
- 3 hours in stereotactic breast biopsy (Module 3)
- 3 hours in magnetic resonance imaging (Module 3)
- 6 hours in risk management (Module 4)
Date of Original Release: June 2010
Date of Credit Termination: June 2013
Return Policy & Guarantee**
We’re pleased to bring you our audio program Breast Imaging and Intervention: A Comprehensive Review, offering you an opportunity to earn a maximum of 26 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Due to the nature of this product, its audio/video format and educational content, no refunds are permitted. You may return the product within 15 days of receipt and receive a credit reflective of the original price you paid for the item. This credit may be applied as payment to any product(s) produced by Oakstone Medical Publishing. We guarantee your program against defects in materials. Simply return any defective materials and we will replace them free of charge. To make a return, call 800-633-4743 for a Return Authorization Code. Complete the packing ticket and return with the program to 100 Corporate Parkway, Suite 600, Birmingham, AL 35242. We recommend shipping through UPS or FedEx. Return shipping fees are the responsibility of the purchaser.
**Effective September 1, 2011
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