Michael E. DeBakey Surgical Society Alumni Symposium and 11th Annual Research Day

Needs Statement

The field of surgery continues to change and develop for patient care, research and education. With growing technology through new studies from research to innovative work, the quality of patientcare is of highest value and need for each surgeon to stay update to date on current trends and outcomes. It is imperative for surgeons to stay abreast from the surgical findings from etiology, abnormalities, diseases, pathology to the state of the art surgical treatment for the patient. With this, surgeons will continue to broaden their research knowledge and extend this knowledge into their teaching of residents, fellows, and medical students. The invited speakers to this program are experts in their field of surgery and/or specialty. The goal of this meeting is to bring together expert surgeons in their surgical field that are world renowned to share this knowledge and expertise with our alumni and department. This meeting will promote the latest surgical knowledge, techniques, research, and education to those attending, which will in return these surgeons will bring this knowledge of information back to their practice groups and/or departments to disseminate further increasing the continual knowledge from this meeting as well as share with others and their specialties.

Educational Objectives

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

• Apply new research and studies for quality improvement in the area of surgery and its divisions. 
• Summarize the history and future goals at the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, and alumni society across the nation.
• Outline new surgical techniques that incorporate innovative minimal invasive robotic procedures with supportive research studies
• Implement new clinical preoperative, operative and postoperative approaches to all disciplines in surgical fields.

Target Audience

Accreditation/Credit Designation

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 9.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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.