Conference Description
Join us for an extraordinary agenda designed to deliver high-caliber learning from a distinguished multidisciplinary faculty. In collaboration with the Wound Healing Foundation, we are delivering an unparalleled educational experience rooted in advancing wound care, improving patient outcomes, and preventing amputations. This annual conference focuses on a interprofessional team approach that provides each member of the healthcare team with the education and resources needed to heal wounds and prevent amputations. It features a prominent international faculty that promotes the importance of a multispecialty approach in limb salvage. Featuring prominent international faculty whose talks will promote the importance of a multispecialty approach in limb salvage with emphasis on take-home points, techniques, and functional outcomes.
Target Audience
This conference is intended for diabetes and wound care specialists, vascular surgeons, orthopaedic surgeons, podiatric surgeons, plastic surgeons, dermatologists, endocrinologists, family practice physicians, infectious disease specialists, cardiovascular and endovascular specialists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physical therapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, nurses, peripheral nerve specialists, certified diabetes educators, and other members of the healthcare team involved in diabetic foot and limb salvage.
Learning Objectives:
- Analyze the public health crisis of diabetic limb loss.
- Discuss the pain of sensory loss and non-compliance to care.
- Examine the options in vascular interventional technology and techniques, both surgical and endovascular.
- Promote the practice of functional limb salvage so that patients maximize their active ambulatory status.
- Navigate the complexities of biomechanics, limb salvage, problem wounds, and wound based infection.
- Cite the financial and social impact of diabetic limb salvage and amputation.
- Identify the roles and responsibilities of members of the healthcare team involved in the collaborative care for prevention of diabetic limb loss.
- Integrate a team-based approach in the care of patients to prevent diabetic limb loss.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by MedStar Health and Wound Healing Foundation. MedStar Health is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 23.00 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
Physicians: MedStar Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 23.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 23.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
American Board of Surgery CC Credit: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements 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.
MOC Participation Threshold: Learner participates by writing a reflective statement and makes a commitment to change or maintain an element of practice.
Nurses: This activity is approved for 23.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Physical Therapists: This continuing education has been approved by the Maryland State Board of Physical Therapy Examiners for 23.0 Continuing Education Hours.
Occupational Therapists: This continuing education program has been approved by the Maryland Board of Occupational Therapy Practice for 20.75 contact hours applying to occupational therapy principles and procedures (COMAR 10.46.04.02 (7)(8)) for the completion of this program. The course number is 2026:0014 expiring on 12/31/2026.
Podiatrists: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards and requirements for approval of providers of continuing education in podiatric medicine through a joint provider agreement between the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA) and the Medstar Health Continuing Professional Education Department. APMA is approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education as a provider of continuing education in podiatric medicine. APMA has approved this activity for a maximum of 23.0 continuing education contact hours.
Physician Assistants: MedStar Health has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 23.00 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
Registered Dieticians (RDs) and Dietetic Technicians, Registered (DTRs): Completion of this IPCE activity awards 23.00 CPEUs. RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 on Professional Development Portfolio (PDP) activity logs.