Pre-Meeting Courses

Widely covered in the contemporary lay press, menopause is a hot topic! 1.3 million women in the United States enter menopause each year. However, a recently published needs assessment found that less than one-third of obstetrics and gynecology residency programs have a menopause curriculum, and many practicing obstetrician–gynecologists feel uncomfortable addressing menopause concerns. This course will provide essential knowledge to improve practicing physicians’ competence and comfort with caring for patients experiencing the menopause transition and menopause. Through interactive presentations, the course will address diagnosis and management of menopause and menopause-adjacent conditions, vasomotor symptoms, genitourinary syndrome of menopause, nonhormone and hormone pharmacotherapy, bone health, and shared decision-making.  

This course goes beyond hot flashes and vaginal dryness to address the concerns of clinicians who have a foundational understanding of menopause management and those who have completed Menopause Essentials: A Starter Course. This course will focus on individualizing the management of midlife and menopausal women with medical complexities such as cardiovascular disease, hormone-sensitive gynecologic and breast cancers, surgical menopause, and neurologic and cognitive disease.

This half-day course focuses on five common obstetric emergencies and includes evidence-based hands-on simulation stations that emphasize technical, teamwork, and communication skills for the following topics: vaginal breech delivery, shoulder dystocia, postpartum hemorrhage, umbilical cord prolapse, and hypertensive urgency/eclampsia. All registrants are required to complete an online didactic learning module prior to the in-person practicum.

Did you know that the DEA set a new requirement in June 2023 that all practitioners are now required to attest to receiving at least 8 hours of substance use disorder education prior to renewal? Did you know that, as of January 2023, an “X waiver” is no longer required to prescribe buprenorphine, with the goal for all providers across specialties to offer this life-saving medication to patients with opioid use disorder? This course will provide foundational knowledge in drug and alcohol use disorders as well as clinical pearls for their management in the gynecologic patient and in pregnancy. This 3-hour course can be combined with other substance use disorder sessions at ACOG ACSM 2024 to complete the new DEA regulation for providers needing to fulfill the 8-hour requirement.

The Severe Maternal Morbidity: Concepts to Action pre-meeting course offers physicians, clinicians from interdisciplinary fields, and health care quality and public health professionals concepts and actionable best practices on key issues related to severe maternal morbidity (SMM). Experts in SMM measurement and implementing systems at their home institutions to monitor, review, and prevent SMM will lead didactic sessions and answer participant questions. Patients with lived expertise will also lead portions of the course regarding centering patients in clinical care, discuss actionable strategies to support patients after morbidity, and advance concepts of respectful care throughout the course.

Coding, documentation, practice finances: The Business of Medicine pre-meeting workshop offers physicians and their support teams practical guidance on the key financial and management issues that impact daily practice. Hear from and ask questions of experts on coding, maximizing documentation for payment, privacy law, human resources, and private equity. Wrap up the day with a physician and life coach offering guidance for your professional and personal goals. Registration covers lunch and 7 CME/CEU credits. Space is limited to 200 people.

The Train the Trainers course will train those who would like to be organizers/teachers of the ECO course. It will be taught by current trainers/teachers of the ECO course. It will involve an overview of preparation and execution of the ECO course. It also includes hands-on teaching of the obstetric emergency stations. The actual course will then be run with participants and focus on five common obstetric emergencies and includes evidence-based hands-on simulation stations that emphasize technical, teamwork, and communication skills for the following topics: vaginal breech delivery, shoulder dystocia, postpartum hemorrhage, umbilical cord prolapse, and hypertensive urgency/eclampsia.