Brian Brosnan, MD
Dermatology, Kaiser Permanente, Panorama City Jill Brown, RNP
Dermatology, Kaiser Permanente, Panorama City
This cosmetic dermatology workshop will review benign skin lesions, tanning and artificial tanners, and the cosmetic treatment options available. Popular topical and injectable skin care treatments such as lasers, skin peels, botox injections, and fillers such as restylane will be discussed.
John Western, PA
Family Practice, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego Preceptor Team
Crawl before you walk! This fun filled course is for a beginner or a student who wants to learn basic suturing techniques. We will review sterile procedures, share tricks of the trade that will allow you to have the basic skills necessary to do cutaneous suturing and demonstrate the details needed to perform this properly.
W3 - How to Project the Professionalism You Possess** 8:00 – 8:45am Registration 9:00 – 12:00pm – Workshop
Instructor:
Cheri Bertelsen, AICI
In 60 seconds people make a determination about your self-confidence, competency and abilities. This may be particularly important in a profession where first impressions can lead to a positive or negative care experience. Learn how to let your wardrobe project your professionalism to others, as well as techniques to present yourself as the medical professional you are.
W4 – Extremity Splinting for the Emergency Room and Clinical Setting 8:00 – 8:45am Registration 9:00 – 12:00pm – Workshop
Sponsored by 3M
Instructors:
Dave Kowalski, OTC
Orthopedics, Kaiser Permanente, Fontana Sandy Reilly, OTC
Field Technical Services, 3M HealthCare
This workshop is a hands-on experience which can help you in numerous situations involving extremity injuries. Opening with an understanding of the basics of stabilization, this course helps you identify the simple and reproducible techniques which allow for safe transport of patients with extremity injuries. Included in the session are demonstrations of volar splints, thumb gutter splints, ulnar gutter splints, sugar-tong splints, posterior splints and three sided short leg splints. Dress for comfort (shorts are good for leg splint application) because interaction as both patient and provider is highly encouraged to get the most out of the session. To know how it feels is to understand! Come for fun, leave with knowledge.
W5 – Ultrasound in Modern Obstetrics** 8:00 – 8:45am Registration 9:00 – 12:00pm – Workshop
Instructor:
Ruth Petrucha, MD
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kaiser Permanente, Los Angeles
This workshop is designed to provide an update for limited office ultrasound skills. Utilizing videos, slides and didactic teaching techniques the topics of basic physics to improve picture quality, dating techniques, identifying signs of potential abnormalities and avoiding pitfalls will be presented.
PM WORKSHOPS
W6 - Heart and Lung Sounds: A Review of Basic Auscultation Listening Skills## ** 12:00 – 12:45pm Registration 1:00 – 5:00pm – Workshop (Limited to 60 participants)
Sponsored by 3M Healthcare/Littmann Stethoscopes
Instructor:
Sandy Reilly, OTC
3M HealthCare, Field Technical Services
This workshop will utilize several interactive, multimedia programs to present both heart sounds and lung sounds. This session is presented as a skills development session, to help increase your skill with a stethoscope. Sandy Reilly of 3M Healthcare, along with an MD partner, will present this exciting program to develop your auscultation skills and test practitioners at all levels. The session utilizes some building software to demonstrate both normal and abnormal cardiac situations and review many frequently heard lung sounds.
W7 – Advanced Minor Surgery 12:00 – 12:45pm Registration 1:00 – 4:00pm – Workshop (Limited to 40 participants)
Instructors:
John Western, PA
Family Practice, Kaiser Permanente, San Diego Preceptor Team
Walk before you run! This exciting course will explore more advanced techniques of wound closure such as absorbable sub-cuticlar (just like in plastic surgery). We will also cover biopsy techniques such as shave, punch, and elliptical. The use of cautery and cryotherapy will also be covered. Participants must be proficient in basic suturing (which should include clinical basic suturing experience) to attend this workshop.
W8 - Hot Topics In Sports Medicine and Physical Examination Skills Clinic 12:00 – 12:45pm Registration 1:00 – 4:00pm – Workshop
Instructor:
Todd Weitzenberg, MD
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa
This workshop will provide the assessment tools needed to diagnose and treat common musculoskeletal conditions seen in sports medicine. Specific focus will be on the active athlete/patient population in the outpatient setting. Current issues in the field of Sports Medicine will be discussed. Participants will have the opportunity for hands-on practice.
Aaron Rubin, MD
Family Practice, Kaiser Permanente, Fontana Disaster Preparadness Team
This comprehensive workshop explores the multi system response triggered by a local or regional disaster situation. Practical information covering personal and family preparation; the community disaster response system; and the role of clinician in the hospital/clinic during a disaster situation will be discussed.
W10 – Clinical Practice Challenges: Female Sexual Dysfunction, Testosterone Replacement for Women with Low Libido and The Work Up of Pelvic Pain** 12:00 – 12:45pm Registration 1:00 – 4:00pm – Workshop
Instructor:
Berneva Adams, MD
OB/GYN, Kaiser Permanente, Fontana
This workshop is designed to explore two topics that are extremely common in the gynecologic setting: Female sexual dysfunction, with an emphasis on the use of testosterone to treat low libido and the common complaint of pelvic pain will be explored.
Reception Workshop
Schmoozing 101: Taking the Fear Out of Cocktail Parties & Mixers 5:00 – 5:30pm Registration 5:30 – 6:30pm – Workshop (Limited to 45 attendees)
$20 per person
Instructor:
Cheri Bertelsen, AICI
Does the fear of having to engage in small talk with strangers cripple your ability to take advantage of social events such as mixers and networking events? This workshop will give you specific strategies to give you confidence in these social situations from the minute you walk in the door until you pick up your coat on the way out. Hors d’oeuvres and beverages will be served, and 1 BRN CEU will be given for this workshop.
** Denotes approval for CNM contact hours pending
## Denotes session approved by the American Association of Nurse Anesthetists
Southern California Permanente Medical Group - Professional Education
