23rd Annual Baylor College of Medicine GI & Liver Course: Fresh Perspectives

Needs Statement

Updating practicing physicians and other health professionals in both the diagnosis and management of gastrointestinal and liver diseases/conditions is essential to providing quality care leading to improved patient outcomes. This activity is designed to increase knowledge, improve competence, and enhance performance of the physician learners in practice to ultimately better patient care and outcomes in gastroenterology.

Educational Objectives

At the conclusion of the conference, participants should be able to:

• Outline new drugs and treatment strategies in inflammatory bowel disease.
• Determine the optimal treatment chronic constipation and irritable bowel syndrome with constipation.
• Summarize changes and updates in the 2023 ASGE guidelines on endoscopic submucosal dissection.
• Recognize the ethical dilemmas associated with Artificial Intelligence and computer assisted innovation in gastroenterology.
• Recognize gastrointestinal diseases and inequities in LGBTQ+ populations.

Target Audience

Accreditation/Credit Designation

PHYSICIAN

Baylor College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Baylor College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ . Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ETHICS

The presentation, GI Disease in LGBTQ+ Patients and Generative AI in Clinical Practice: Ethical Considerations, has been designated by Baylor College of Medicine for 1.00 credit of education in medical ethics and/or professional responsibility.

AMERICAN BOARD OF INTERNAL MEDICINE (ABIM) MOC PART II

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 10.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Nurse

Texas Children’s Hospital is accredited with distinction as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This continuing nursing education activity awards up to 10.50 contact hours.

Disclosure Policy

Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education (CME) for physicians. BCM is committed to sponsoring CE activities that are scientifically based, accurate, current, and objectively presented.

In accordance with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support, BCM has implemented a mechanism requiring everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity (i.e., directors, planning committee members, faculty) to disclose any relevant financial relationships with commercial interests (drug/device companies) and manage/resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. Individuals must disclose to participants the existence or non-existence of financial relationships at the time of the activity or within 24 months prior.

In addition, BCM has requested activity faculty/presenters to disclose to participants any unlabeled use or investigational use of pharmaceutical/device products; to use scientific or generic names (not trade names) in referring to products; and, if necessary to use a trade name, to use the names of similar products or those within a class. Faculty/presenters have also been requested to adhere to the ACCME's validation of clinical content statements.

BCM does not view the existence of financial relationships with commercial interests as implying bias or decreasing the value of a presentation. It is up to participants to determine whether the relationships influence the activity faculty with regard to exposition or conclusions. If at any time during this activity you feel that there has been commercial/promotional bias, notify the Activity Director or Activity Coordinator. Please answer the questions about balance and objectivity in the activity evaluation candidly.

All of the relevant financial relationships listed for these individuals have been mitigated.