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Laboratory Medicine: Winter CME Course in Surgical Pathology Workshop

Earn 20 Continuing Medical Education hours and ski in Park City, UT, February 4-7, 2009

Overview

This 23.75 hour review and update in the areas of clinical immunology, microbiology, and infectious diseases is intended to improve knowledge about the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of infectious diseases, immunological mechanisms of disease and disease prevention, appropriate approaches to the diagnosis of infections and immunologic disorders, and utilization of the clinical microbiology and immunology laboratory including selection and interpretation of results.

This course will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas dealing with microbial infections as well as immunity to infectious diseases and immunologic disorders.  Faculty consists of clinicians involved in patient care, pathologists, and clinical laboratory scientists.  Discussion of timely topics by faculty and participants assures that this course will be informative, interesting, and relevant.

Objective

On completion of the course, attendees should be able to:

• Identify new emerging pathogens, infectious syndromes, and immunologic diseases including clinical presentations
• Critically analyze current practice and laboratory procedures in diagnosing infectious and immunologic disorders as well as result reporting
• Update the current knowledge of the epidemiology and mechanisms of transmission of infectious disorders
• Assess new therapeutic modalities, which are being developed or utilized in treating infectious and immunologic diseases
• Discuss genetics and molecular diagnosis of infections and immunologic disorders

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