Improving Clinical Proficiency:
Enhancing Care for Your IBS Patients
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Interact with faculty and your peers through a virtual practice circle!
Improving Clinical Proficiency: Enhancing Care for Your IBS Patients will support and educate physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and physicians in primary care. This program aims to improve practice systems and optimal approaches to the diagnosis and management of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in the primary care setting.
Each practice circle - consisting of you and your peers - will be led by a faculty expert who will guide you through each stage of the program.
PROGRAM ELEMENTS
This program will offer you support in your efforts to improve your practice through:
| 1) | A dedicated Web site to guide you through each step of the program |
| 2) | Four teleconferences to provide direct interaction with faculty and peers |
| 3) | Comprehensive resources to enhance your management of patients with IBS |
| 4) | Direct faculty contact through e-mail and telephone office hours |
| 5) | Discussion board to stay connected with the community of participating clinicians |
WHAT YOU WILL GAIN
| 1) | Valuable information about your practice |
| 2) | Clinical guidance to improve your management of patients with IBS |
| 3) | Access to tools and resources to help you improve your practice |
| 4) | A community of your peers |
OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this practice improvement activity, you will be able to:
| 1) | Identify at least one barrier in your organization to the identification and treatment of patients with IBS |
| 2) | Establish an Action Plan to implement improvements in your office-based practice for the management of patients with IBS |
| 3) | Develop a system to promote early detection and treatment of IBS |
| 4) | Create and implement a general management plan for patients with IBS |
QUESTIONS?
Please contact us if you have any questions:
Boston University School of Medicine
Continuing Medical Education
72 East Concord Street, A 305
Boston, Massachusetts 02118-2526
Phone: 617-638-4605
Toll-Free: 800-688-2475
Fax: 617-638-4905
E-mail: cme@bu.edu
Ask for:
Lara Zisblatt, Assistant Director
Elizabeth Gifford, Program Manager
Julie White, Administrative Director