View Bladder Cancer CME Webcast

View Bladder Cancer CME Webcast. Bladder cancer is not rare. In fact, it is the 4th most common cause of cancer in men and is diagnosed in 73,000 Americans every year.  That means that every 3 years, the average primary care physician will have a patient with newly diagnosed bladder cancer.  Here with our moderator Dr. Jim Allen to tell us more are two of Ohio State’s top experts on bladder cancer.  We have Dr. Amir Mortazavi a medical oncologist at the James Cancer Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Ohio State University.  We also have Dr. Kamal Pohar, a urologic oncologist at the James Cancer Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at OSU.

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What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: IDENTIFY risk factors for bladder cancer; UNDERSTAND the natural history of bladder cancer, the surgical management of early stage bladder cancer, and the methods for prevention of recurrence and progression; and DESCRIBE the optimal multimodality management of muscle-invasive disease.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Relationship between smoking and bladder cancer
• Screening for bladder cancer
• Metastasis pattern
• Squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma of the bladder
• Genetic and receptor markers in bladder cancer
• Side effects of BCG
• Chemoprevention for bladder cancer
• Long-term follow up after superficial bladder cancer

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

CME Webcast on Depression Discusses Treatment Options

CME Webcast on Depression discusses treatment options.  Depression is literally all around you – in your patients, in your friends, in your families, and sometimes even in yourselves. Today on MedNet21, you’re going to learn how to better recognize depression and then how to develop a rational treatment approach for managing depression.  In our studio, with Dr. Jim Allen, we have OSU Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Dr. James Young.

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What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: Discuss how to treat the different stages and severities of depression; Recognize how to treat depression in different populations.

You’ll also learn about the following:

• Challenges in depression diagnosis
• Biochemical basis for depression
• Post-partum depression prognosis
• Choosing an SSRI
• Drug selection when cost is a consideration
• When anti-depressants can be stopped
• Long-term follow up after treatment
• Serotonin syndrome

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.