Connecticut Children's

Connecticut Children's Grand Rounds

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Pediatric Grand Rounds at Connecticut Children's provides pediatric practitioners with high-quality, evidenced-based continuing medical education that is both practical and cutting edge.

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Pediatric Podcast Pearls: "Fever in the Young Infant", Matt Laurich, MD 02.01.2024 34:34

Event Objectives: Choose appropriate elements of the work-up for a febrile young infant. Apply risk stratification strategies to febrile young infants to guide further testing and treatment. Engage in evidence-based shared decision making with the parents of febrile young infants. Claim CME Credit Here!

12.19.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Breastfeeding Medicine MythBusters: Don't Just Pump and Dump", Ilana Waynik, MD, Joanne Crowley, MD, MSEd 19.12.2023 1:00:34

Event Objectives: Understand why knowledge of breastfeeding medicine is vital to providing care to pediatric patients and their families. Discuss common scenarios in which caregivers are often inappropriately advised to stop breastfeeding/providing breast milk AND true contraindications. Identify breast feeding/breast milk resources available to clinicians. Claim CME Credit Here!

12.15.23 Ask the Experts, "Suicide Prevention in Children and Adolescents", David Brent, MD 15.12.2023 58:23

Event Objectives: Identify primary prevention of adolescent suicidal behavior. Discuss approaches to screening for suicidal risk. Identify ultra-brief interventions; including safety planning, method restriction, and how to do a safety plan. Claim CME Credit here!

12.12.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Addressing Physician Burnout and Stress: Tools for Deliberate Practice to Promote Well-Being", Lyuba Konopasek, MD 12.12.2023 1:03:18

Event Objectives: Describe burnout including its drivers and consequences. Identify three domains that contribute to physician stress (conflict, time management, and culture) and strategies to address them. Claim CME Credit Here!

Pediatric Podcast Pearls: "STIs in Teenagers", Alyssa Bennett, MD 06.12.2023 28:29

Event Objectives: Review the 2021 CDC STI Treatment Guidelines as it applies to adolescents. Describe clinical signs of common STIs. Discuss confidentiality and billing practices when screening teens for STIs. Claim CME Credit Here! Table of Contents - STI Treatment Guidelines (cdc.gov)Table of Contents - STI Treatment Guidelines (cdc.gov)

12.5.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "RSV Infections: Old Challenges and New Approaches", Asuncion Mejias, MD, PhD, MsCS 05.12.2023 1:02:26

Event Objectives: Define the burden of RSV infection in infants and young children. Identify the changes in the epidemiology and circulation of RSV due to COVID-19. Identify the new preventive strategies approved for prevention of lower respiratory tract infections due to RSV. Claim CME Credit Here!

11.28.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Use of CFI: How to Increase Cultural Sensitivity/Humility in Pediatric and Pediatric Behavioral Health Settings", Rameshwari Tumuluru, MD 28.11.2023 47:40

Event Objectives: Define the CFI. Describe the use of the CFI in Pediatric Psychiatry. Understanding Cultural Humility and use of Broaching. Claim CME credit here!

11.21.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Epilepsy Genetics: An Evolving Story", Mark Schomer, MD 21.11.2023 56:34

Event Objectives: Understand the phenotypic variation various genetic mutations can cause in epilepsy. Develop familiarity with the pathophysiologic mechanisms underlying genetic epilepsies. Identify current mechanisms to treat different types of genetic epilepsy. Claim CME Credit Here!

Pediatric Podcast Pearls: "The Lung and Short of Current Community Acquired Pneumonia Management", Ilana Waynik, MD 20.11.2023 29:59

Event Objectives: Become familiar with new evidence for the management of community acquired pneumonia. Understand how to improve your antimicrobial stewardship in management of community pneumonia by decreasing unnecessary use of broad spectrum antibiotics and prescribing antibiotics for the shortest effective duration. Learn about free Connecticut Children’s resources available to outpatient ped...

11.17.23 Ask the Experts: "Update on Health Care Transition from Pediatric to Adult Health Care: The Role of Physicians", Patience White, MD, MA, FAAP, MACP 17.11.2023 1:00:34

Event Objectives: Review current outcome evidence on health care transition (HCT) interventions. Discuss the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)/American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)/American College of Physicians (ACP) 6 core element approach and tools for pediatric practices. Describe key lessons learned from implementing HCT performance improvement program in 2 programs. Claim CME Credi...

11.14.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Sepsis Quality Improvement - Addressing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice", Elliot Melendez, MD, CPHQ 14.11.2023 59:08

Event Objectives: Understand what process metrics are considered optimal sepsis management. Identify the gaps between evidence and practice of sepsis management. Compare tools and processes being used to narrow the gap. Claim CME Credit Here!

Pediatric Podcast Pearls: "Joint Pain in Kids", Barbara Edelheit, MD 08.11.2023 25:52

Event Objectives: Review the most common causes of joint pain in kids and how to distinguish benign pain from features with red flags. Review the concept of hypermobility in kids and the link to frequent joint pain. Review the concept of growing pains. Claim CME credit Here!

11.7.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Pediatric Hydrocephalus Management and Clinical Research Update", John Kestle, MD 07.11.2023 1:00:24

Event Objectives: Understand current management options for pediatric hydrocephalus. Discuss the creation of a cooperative network for hydrocephalus research. Claim CME Credit here!

10.31.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Navigating Goals of Care in the Neonatal-Perinatal Period", DonnaMaria Cortezzo, MD 31.10.2023 1:01:29

Event Objectives: Introduce neonatal-perinatal palliative care. Review navigating goals of care for a fetus or neonate. Discuss how to effectively communicate the goals of care and integrate the paradigms of neonatal-perinatal palliative care across hospital systems and locations of care. Claim CME credit HERE!

10.24.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Unexplained Encephalopathy: Could the Cause Be Metabolic?", Mark Korson, MD 24.10.2023 1:00:50

Event Objectives: Identify metabolic causes of encephalopathy. List the tests that should be performed when considering a metabolic cause of encephalopathy. Describe the obstacles that metabolic patients face in their diagnostic odyssey. Claim CME credit here!

10.17.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Crazy Little Thing Called Lead", Jennifer Haile, MD 17.10.2023 57:18

Event Objectives: Identify common sources of lead and ways to minimize exposure. Review current lead screening guidelines. Discuss the changes in Connecticut legislature regarding mandated screening and housing assessment. Claim CME credit HERE!

10.10.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Undescended Testis: Current Status and Some Lessons Learned", David Chalmers, MD 10.10.2023 55:10

Lecture Objective: Discuss undescended testis cryptorchidism. Claim CME Credit Here!

10.6.23 Ask the Experts: "Updates on COVID-19 & The RSV Vaccine", John Schreiber, MD and Ian Michelow, MD, MMed, FCPaed, DTM&H, FPIDS 09.10.2023 1:01:13

Lecture Objectives: Describe the new FDA-approved vaccine and therapy for preventing RSV. Review how the RSV vaccine and monoclonal antibodies work. List the newly approved recommendations for preventing RSV. Review current COVID-19 & vaccine data. Claim CME Credit Here!

Pediatric Podcast Pearls: "Pediatric Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease", Corey Baker, MD 03.10.2023 33:52

Event Objectives: Recognize symptoms that can be due to reflux in children. Evaluate how to identify different types of reflux. Discuss therapeutic options for pediatric reflux. Claim CME Credit HERE!

10.3.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Structural Determinants of (Unequal) Exposure to Injury and Violence", Sara Jacoby, PhD, MPH, MSN, FAAN 03.10.2023 53:54

Event Objective: Describe key structural determinants of community violence exposure in the United States urban environments. Claim CME Credit HERE!

9.26.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Back Pain in Children: Diagnostic Tips and Tricks", Mark Lee, MD 26.09.2023 50:05

Event Objectives: Identify the etiologies of back pain in a pediatric population. Understand the evaluation of a child with back pain. List the treatment and management options available for low back pain. Claim CME Credit HERE!

9.19.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "Status of the Medical Malpractice/Regulatory Climate in CT & Strategies to Mitigate Risk", Joyce Lagnese, Esq. 19.09.2023 1:04:32

Event Objectives: Describe the Trends in Medical Malpractice settlements and verdict outcomes in CT. Formulate documentation practices that will mitigate medico-legal risk. Conform their practices to avoid scrutiny by CT Regulatory bodies including DPH and DCP. Reduce incidence of patient/family confusion/anxiety by focused communication strategies.

9.15.23 Ask the Experts: "Workplace Wellness: Resilience and Risk Prevention", Kelly Weber, PsyD 15.09.2023 55:58

Event Objectives: Increase understanding of organizational factors that contribute to a healthy workplace Learn distinctions between burnout and depression and become more aware of individual and systemic factors that influence risk and resilience Review evidence-based initiatives that foster health and wellness for employees within health care organizations and at Connecticut Children's Medi...

9.12.23 Pediatric Grand Rounds, "A Cure for Sickle Cell Disease: Are We There Yet?", Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, MD 12.09.2023 54:43

Event Objectives: Cite Indications for Bone marrow transplantation and gene therapy for sickle cell disease. Compare and Contrast Bone Marrow Transplantation and Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease. Evaluate Suitability of a Candidate for Bone Marrow Transplant or Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease.

Pediatric Podcast Pearls: "Normal and Abnormal Speech Development in Children", Virginia Van Epps, MEd, CCC-SLP, CLC and Jodi Urzua, MS, CCC-SLP 05.09.2023 28:22

Lecture Objectives: - Understand the range of normal development for speech and language. - Understand signs and symptoms of speech delay or disorders requiring a referral to a speech-language pathologist. Resources: Identify The Signs of Communication Disorders Stuttering (asha.org) ASHA's Developmental Milestones: Birth to 5 Years Learning More Than One Language (asha.org) Bilingualism_Prim...