The Pulse of Diabetes

November 15, 2024

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World Diabetes Day education session benefiting multiple disciplines. Event to provide an overview of foot wound care for individuals with diabetes, team-based approach, up-to-date therapies, and resources with an emphasis on amputation prevention.

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM - Grand Rounds:

Diabetes and Wound Care, Robert Klein, DPM

8:45 AM - 1:30 PM - World Diabetes Day - The Pulse of Diabetes: 

Round table discussion on team-based diabetes foot care, amputation prevention, pharmacology and supportive service updates.

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Target Audience

Primary Department: Internal Medicine

Secondary Department: Surgery

Primary Audience:

  • Practicing Physicians
  • Fellows
  • Residents

Secondary Audience:

  • Affiliated Mental Health Staff
  • Allied Health Fellows
  • Medical Students
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Physician Assistants
  • Pharmacists
  • Registered Nurses
  • Residents
  • Social Workers
  • Physical Therapists
  • Technicians
  • Registered Dietitians 
  • Certified Health Education Specialists
  • Community Health Workers

Learning Objectives

As a result of participating in this activity, learners will...

  • Increase their knowledge on amputation risk and prevalence and team-based care needed to optimize cardiovascular and foot health in individuals with diabetes.
  • Know more about foot care, wound prevention strategies/screenings, and foot wound care to promote healing and reduce amputation risk.
  • Have tools to incorporate into practice or patient education.
  • Understand the need for increased comprehensive foot examinations annually, and know more about PAD screenings when indicated with appropriate testing and referrals when interventions are identified.
  • Know more about the reduction in South Carolina's incidence of foot amputations associated with diabetes.

Additional Information

Competencies this activity addresses: 
Medical knowledge
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.25 ABIM Medical Knowledge
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 4.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
  • 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 4.25 Attendance
Registration opens: 
10/04/2024
Claim credit by: 
12/17/2024
Event starts: 
11/15/2024 - 8:45am EST
Event ends: 
11/15/2024 - 1:15pm EST
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Agenda
7:30 - 8:30 AMGrandRounds
8:30 - 8:45 AMRegistration / Check-in
8:45 - 10:15 AMRoundtable - Team Approach to Diabetes Foot
  • Wound Care - Dr. Robert Klein
  • Peripheral Artery Disease - Dr. Tara Holder
  • Vascular - Dr. Rachel Parr
  • Infectious Disease - Dr. Patrick Kent
  • Endocrinology - Brittany Maffett, DNP
10:15 - 10:25 AMVeterans Day Tribute
10:25 - 10:45 AMBREAKOUT
Internal: Casting / Offloading - CAM Walkers, Shoes, Inserts, AFOs, etc. / Prosthetics
  • Jason Kluckhohn

External Non-Profits: ADA, AHA, Prisma Health

10:45 - 11:05 AMAmputation Prevention in the World: "My Hardest Wound in the Africa Region"
  • Professor Zulfiqarali G. Abbas, MBBS, MMed, DTM&H (UK), FRCP (London), FRCP (Glasgow)
11:05 - 11:30 AMAmputation Prevention in the U.S.
  • Ciarra McEachin, Director, American Diabetes Association - SC, GA, and AL
11:30 AM - 12:15 PMPharmacology Update
  • Tiffaney Threatt, PharmD
  • Eileen Ward, PharmD, Prisma Health
12:15 - 12:45 PMKnow Diabetes by Heart (AHA/ADA)
  • Danielle McFall, Clemson Extension
  • Additional speaker
12:45 - 1:15 PMDSMES (nutrition) and Diabetes Support (chat, group, program)
  • Michelle Stancil
1:15 PMADJOURN

 

Prisma Health is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the South Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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“The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville has been reviewed by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME®) and awarded Accreditation with Commendation as a provider of continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. Accreditation in the ACCME System seeks to assure the medical community and the public that the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville delivers education that is relevant to clinicians’ needs, evidence-based, evaluated for its effectiveness, and independent of commercial influence.”

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ACCME Accreditation with Commendation

Available Credit

  • 4.25 ABIM Medical Knowledge
    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 4.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
  • 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville designates this live activity for a maximum of 4.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 4.25 Attendance
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