UAMS Conference Oct. 20-22 Offers Nurses Continuing Education Opportunity
| Sept. 12, 2016 | Nurses can earn more than 20 hours of continuing education Oct. 20-22 at the 20th annual Family Medicine Update and Tobacco Disease Preconference at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS).
The three-day conference, sponsored by the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine in the UAMS College of Medicine, will offer 22.75 hours of continuing education. It will be held in the Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute at UAMS.
The conference will feature nicotine replacement therapy in the clinical setting, updates on osteoporosis and multiple sclerosis, simulations, pulmonary hypertension, new anticoagulants and sessions on mental illness, risk management and chronic pain.
Nurses can receive an early-bird price of $290 for the full conference or $265 for two days when registering before Sept. 30. Single-day registration is also available. To register, call 501-526-5439 or visit cme.uams.edu.
A 25-percent discount will be added if three or more register together, however, this must be done by phone. For more information, contact Andrea Hooten at 501-526-6302 or ahooten@uams.edu.
UAMS is the state’s only health sciences university, with colleges of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Professions and Public Health; a graduate school; a hospital; a main campus in Little Rock; a Northwest Arkansas regional campus in Fayetteville; a statewide network of regional campuses; and eight institutes: the Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute, Jackson T. Stephens Spine & Neurosciences Institute, Harvey & Bernice Jones Eye Institute, Psychiatric Research Institute, Donald W. Reynolds Institute on Aging, Translational Research Institute, Institute for Digital Health & Innovation and the Institute for Community Health Innovation. UAMS includes UAMS Health, a statewide health system that encompasses all of UAMS’ clinical enterprise. UAMS is the only adult Level 1 trauma center in the state. UAMS has 3,485 students, 915 medical residents and fellows, and seven dental residents. It is the state’s largest public employer with more than 11,000 employees, including 1,200 physicians who provide care to patients at UAMS, its regional campuses, Arkansas Children’s, the VA Medical Center and Baptist Health. Visit www.uams.edu or uamshealth.com. Find us on Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), YouTube or Instagram.###