Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Tift Regional Medical Center (TRMC) is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians and holds numerous events throughout the year. For more information or to obtain a CD of older presentations, please call CME Coordinator Judy Cooper, RN at 229-353-6805 or e-mail by clicking here.

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CME Opportunities:

Grand Rounds (lunch activities on the 2nd Tuesday monthly at 12:30 pm in the TRMC Dining Room)
Grand Rounds After Hours (dinner activities held periodically)
Cancer Conferences
Internet-based point-of-care (PoC) CME offerings
Performance Improvement CME offerings
CME Webinars on the internet
Ethics Case Conference (held various times per year)
ICU Rounds (weekly on Thursday at 10:00 am)

Upcoming CME Event

Date and Time	Topic	Speaker	Location
January 14, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Pain Managment CME awarded by MAGMutal	Gregory Talley, Attorney	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
January 24, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	The Design and Implementation of a Lung Cancer Screening Program	Andrea McKee, MD Lahey Medical Center	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
February 7, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Updates on Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension-Identify, Classify & Treat	Hunter Champion, MD, PhD, FAHA	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
March 11, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Metastatic Breast Cancer CME awarded by ICHE	Ruth O'Regan, MD Emory University	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
March 21, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Obesity Management in Primary Care	Christy Turer, MD Obestiy Society, Clincal Chairman	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
April 8, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment	Patricia Bomba, MD, FACP VP and Medical Director Geriatrics Ch. MOLST Statewide Implementation Team	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
May 13, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Heart Failure and Device Therapy Management	Shands Healthcare	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
May 15	TENATIVE - Stroke Symposium
June 10, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Malnourishment in the Adult Hospital Patient; Hospitalist role in recognizing, addressing and managing	Thomas Zeigler, MD Professor of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Metobolism and Lipids Director, Emory Center for Clinical and Molecular Nutrition	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
July 8, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Bariatric Surgery: Appropriate use in Obesity Management	Christopher Smith, MD	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
August 12, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Updates on Care of Patient in Renal Failure and Management of Patients on Dialysis	Melissa Rampal, MD	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
September 9, 2014 12:30 - 1:30 pm	Multiple Myeloma: Early Recognition and Referral in Primary Care	Vivek Roy, MD Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL	TRMC Dining Rooms A&B
October 14, 2014	TBA
November 11, 2014	TBA

Cancer Conference Dates
(Meeting Place: Dining Rooms A&B)

7:00 - 8:00 am
Tuesday
(Breakfast provided through
the Serving Line)

February 4, 2014
March 4, 2014
April 1, 2014
May 6, 2014
June 3, 2014
July 1, 2014
August 5, 2014
September 2, 2014
October 7, 2014

12:30 - 1:30 pm
Tuesday
(Breakfast provided through
the Serving Line)

January 16, 2014

February 20, 2014
March 20, 2014
April 17, 2014
May 15, 2014
June 19, 2014
July 17, 2014
August 21, 2014
September 18, 2014
October 16, 2014
December 11, 2014

CURE Series – Live Webinar

Every 3rd Tuesday of the Month, 12:15 – 1:15 PM

Can view from your own computer.

To access SOWEGA-AHEC Archived Online Library CME Activities please click the link below.

Free: SOWEGA-AHEC Online Library of CME/CE Activities Now Available:

Point-of Care CME

TRMC continues to offer CME opportunity for physicians called Point-of-Care CME. The AMA and AAFP recognize Point-of-Care CME as practice-based learning that takes place in support of specific patient care.

What’s new with PoC is TRMCs newest subscription to UptoDate. UptoDate is a research tool that provides clinicians with unbiased, continuously updated, evidence-based practical recommendations to assist the clinician with point of care decisions. It provides information on over 9,500 clinical topics in 20 specialties. You can earn 0.5 CME credits for each search and UptoDate tracks the CME credit. Credits are tracked by the month and can be redeemed up to every two years. With this subscription you do not complete any paper form for the CME office. You may redeem credit at your convenience. You can print your certificate from the site. If you need any assistance setting up your account call Judy Cooper at 229-353-6805 or 229-402-6122.

TRMC will continue to award 0.5 credits for every point-of-care learning activity that utilizes other approved Point-of-Care CME sources and is delivered by an ACCME-accredited CME provider. The following activity elements must be documented: 1) The learner's question; 2) The search of an AMA or AAFP-approved source; 3) Implementation of new knowledge in practice.

Point of care documentation forms are available in each MD dictation area as well as online. There is also a box to deposit completed forms.

To be awarded the appropriate credit, for PoC sources other than UptoDate, please click here to print out the Point-of-Care CME form. Send the completed form to CME Coordinator Judy Cooper, RN. You can have your office place the completed form in the TRMC Quality Management mailbox at the hospital; give to any of the personnel in the Medical Staff Services office at the hospital; fax to 229-353-6265; or, mail to Judy’s attention at PO Box 747, Tifton, Georgia, 31793.

Point of Care form

Performance Improvement CME

TRMC can award up to 20 CME credit for performance improvement (PI) and quality improvement (QI) activities, including:

PI/QI activity selection, measurement and evaluation.

Disease management modules.
Evidence-based practices

Current PI Projects:

CS2day Tobacco Cessation – Jorge Glass, MD – physician champion

Blood Utilization Guidelines (BUGs) – Jessica Beier, MD – physician champion

All activities must demonstrate an impact on physician competence, physician performance or patient outcomes. Recent examples of PI/QI CME projects include a sepsis guidelines initiative and a childhood obesity/cardiovascular disease performance improvement study. For further information contact Mindy McStott or Judy Cooper.

Tift Regional Medical Center CME Committee

Brent Savelli, MD Chairman	Steven Dodd, NP-C
William Guest, MD	Terry Harwood, PA-C
Richard Beasley, Jr., DO	Mindy McStott, RN, Quality Management
Kathrine Gibbons, MD	Karen Kimsey, Education
Paul Murray, MD	Will Nesmith, Clinical Pharmacist
Craig Pierce, MD	Marilyn Richardson, Tumor Reg
Melissa Rampal, MD	Sherry Ellis, RN, Nurse Informatist
Steve Rigdon, MD	Cheryl Sumner, RN, ICU Nurse Manager
Rodney Tyson, MD	Judy Cooper, RN, CME Coordinator