Target Audience
Physician Anesthesiologists, Residents and Medical Students
Upon Completion of the program, participants should be able to:
- Identify trends and challenges facing Anesthesiology nation– and statewide, in the market, legislature and regulation
- Describe how ASA is working with members nation-and statewide to address current and emerging opportunities
- Discuss the prevalence of burnout in physicians
- Illustrate the effects of physician burnout
- Describe a simulation intervention involving family and friends to improve relatedness and communication between providers and their support persons
- Define patient blood management
- Discuss if PBM is a public health issue
- Discuss the issue of therapy vs. disease management
- Discuss PBM outcomes and influence on public health
- Discuss the future of PBM
- Identify pragmatic evidence-based strategies for preventing and treating pain in anesthesiology-based specialties
- Identify evidence-based recommendations that reflect the most current science and translate the evidence into making impactful decisions in anesthesiology
- Discuss the current climate and options for treating pain in the clinical setting