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Headache and Facial Pain
CME Group, Aug 2008
Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Headache and Facial Pain program provides new techniques and discoveries that are frequently being introduced to clinicians at the basic science level. This program will offer generalists and specialists a state-of-the-art perspective in scientific inquiry and clinical practice, relevant to the application of pain medicine to headache and facial pain.
Learning Objectives
This program is designed for participants wishing to achieve competence and improve their skills in assessing headache and facial pain patients. It will incorporate a survey of the principal evidence-based treatments, including pharmacology, surgical procedures, psychology, and complementary medicine, and the methods examined will range from conservative and non-invasive to radical and invasive, with special attention to the comparative risks involved and their physical and psychosocial impact on the patient. Clinicians preparing for board exams will find this course helpful.
Accreditation Statement
Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement
Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 19.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Release date: August 1, 2008
Credits expire: July 31, 2010
CME credit is obtained upon successful completion of an activity posttest and evaluation, as well as payment of a processing fee.
Disclosure
Harvard Medical School has long held the standard that its continuing medical education courses be free of commercial bias. Now, in accord with the disclosure policy of the Medical School as well as standards set forth by the Accreditation Council on Continuing Medical Education, speakers and their spouses/partners, and planners have been asked to disclose any relationship they have to companies producing pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, prosthesis, etc. that might be germane to the content of their lectures. Please note that now in accordance with recent policies from the ACCME, relationships of the person involved in the CME activity must include financial relationships of a spouse or partner.
In addition, faculty have been asked to describe any off label uses, they will discuss, of pharmaceuticals and devices for investigational or non-FDA approved purposes.
Such disclosure is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation, but is elicited to provide the course director and registrants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a given talk. The full disclosure of faculty is listed in the syllabus.
A note on the available formats:
DVD: Video package includes 12 DVDs with carrying case, 1 CD-ROM with comprehensive program syllabus, and activity posttest and evaluation.
CD: Audio package includes 25 audio CDs with carrying case, 1 CD-ROM with comprehensive program syllabus, and activity posttest and evaluation.
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