COURSE DIRECTOR
Alexander Niven, MD

DESCRIPTION
This weekly conference series is designed to improve the practice of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, covering a broad range of topics relevant to these subspecialties and their delivery.  The target audience for this activity is the interprofessional care team, including physicians of these disciplines, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, nurses, respiratory therapists, and certified pulmonary function and sleep technicians. The conferences are delivered in a variety of formats, including didactic presentations, case-based and expert panel discussions, simulation demonstrations, and interactive workshops on a variety of topics including patient safety, quality improvement, teamwork, and communication.

TARGET AUDIENCE
This series is designed for physicians, fellows in training, residents, mid-level providers, medical students, and allied staff who are interested in the field of pulmonary, sleep and critical care medicine.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

• Identify common institutional strategies to investigate and address safety and quality issues raised by our community.
• Discuss roles, responsibilities, best teamwork, and communication practices within the interprofessional team during daily clinical activities.
• Debate common controversies in the practice of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine within clinic and bedside practice settings.
• Demonstrate the use of common, emerging medical education concepts within the clinical learning environment.
• Review ongoing basic, clinical, translational and educational research efforts within the division of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.
• Recognize the basic genetic, molecular and cellular underpinnings of diseases affecting patients with pulmonary critical care and/or sleep disorders.
• Recognize the molecular and physiologic basis for established and emerging diagnostic and therapeutic modalities used in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine.
• Debate the opportunity for inter-disciplinary and cross-specialty research interactions relevant to pulmonary, critical care and sleep disorders.

Accreditation Statement
In support of improving patient care, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Credit Statement(s):
AMA
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Maintenance of Certification - American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.00 medical knowledge 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.

*An attestation form is required for every RSS session. Forms should be filled out by the individual/s who monitored that specific session.
Participation information will be shared with ABIM through PARS.

ANCC
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science designates this activity for a maximum of 1.00 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

DISCLOSURE SUMMARY
As a provider accredited by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science must ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in its educational activities.  All who are in a position to control the content are required to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible company.   Faculty will also identify any off-label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments discussed in their content for FDA compliance.

Listed below are individuals with control of the content of this program who have disclosed...