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2010 ALSO Course
Friday, January 8, 2010
7:30 am – 5:30 pm
Saturday, January 9, 2010
7:30 am – 5:00 pm
Course Co-Directors
Juliet Bradley, MD
Nimmi Rajagopal, MD
Advisory Faculty
Abbas Hyderi, MD, MPH
Location:
Chicago, Illinois
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The Department of Family Medicine will be sponsoring the 2010 ALSO Course on Friday, January 8th and Saturday, January 9th, 2010. Since 2003, the DFM at UIC has coordinated the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics course, designed to teach obstetrics providers how to handle obstetric emergencies and keep them up-to-date on evidence-based practice recommendations. The ALSO course instructors are comprised of a consortium of Chicago-area family medicine residency faculty: UIC, Illinois Masonic, Hinsdale, Resurrection, and Cook County-Loyola-Provident are all represented.
ALSO is a structured, evidence-based, multidisciplinary training program on the practical management of obstetric emergencies. The two-day course is for maternity care providers including physicians, midwives, nurses and other clinicians.
Course Purpose:
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To increase cognitive knowledge regarding the diagnosis and management of obstetrical emergencies
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To increase hands-on skill needed to manage the care of patients during obstetrical emergencies
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To improve collegial interactions and coordination of care among all types of maternity care providers
Course Objective:
At the end of the course all participants should be able to describe, discuss, and manage treatment options for the following conditions:
| • First Trimester Complications |
• Postpartum Hemorrhage |
| • Late Pregnancy Bleeding |
• Intrapartum Fetal Surveillance |
| • Preterm Labor/PROM |
• Shoulder Dystocia |
| • Labor Dystocia |
• Assisted Delivery |
| • Safety in Maternity Care |
• Malpresentations |
| • Medical Complications |
• Intrapartum Ultrasound |
| • Post-Partum Hemorrhage U/S |
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To register for the 2010 ALSO Course, please mail the registration form and registration fee made payable to University of Illinois at Chicago to:
University of Illinois at Chicago
Department of Family medicine
1919 W. Taylor Street, MC 663
Registration deadline is Friday, December 4th, 2009. Upon receipt of payment, syllabus (hard copy format) will be mailed to each registrant using address indicated on the registration form. Please visit www.aafp.org/also for course updates and 31 question self-assessment tool.
For additional information about this course, please contact ALSO Program Coordinator at shelleyj@uic.edu. General ALSO information is available on the AAFP website: www.aafp.org/also
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