Not only does the University of Kentucky Department of Neurology offer educational opportunities for students, residents and fellows, we offer continuing medical educational (CME) opportunities for fully-licensed physicians. There are many opportunities in our department to acquire CME credits either from attending our grand rounds or child conferences. 

Continued medical education is regulated both by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the American Osteopathic Association. CME can be acquired through many mediums including live events, online programs, audio, video, or other types of electronic media.

Course Descriptions

  • Child Neurology Grand Rounds:  Weekly conference where trainees present an interesting case from the previous week's inpatient service.  The group discusses current literature, treatment, and affords an opportunity to review complex cases in a teaching all child neurology faculty physicians. 
  • EEG Conference:  Case presentation conferences. Focus is reading EEGs, epilepsy management, and other related topics.
  • Electro-clinical Epilepsy Conference: Weekly conference where clinical cases will be presented after reviewing seizure semiology, EEG, imaging and pathology of patients who underwent epilepsy surgery. 
  • Epilepsy Quality and Safety Committee Meeting: Monthly multidisciplinary meeting which addresses clinical issues and is geared towards quality and safety of the service delivered in the EMU. 
  • Grand Rounds:  Weekly departmental conference featuring timely clinical and translational neuroscience presentations by faculty and invited guest speakers. 
  • Interesting Case Conference: Monthly case presentation conference. Focus on interesting or tough cases (outpatient or inpatient). 
  • Journal Club Conference:  Monthly. Critical analysis of current literature. Presented by trainees. 
  • Movement Disorder (Video) Conference: Monthly case presentation conference. Focus on recognizing different movement disorders. 
  • Neuroimaging Conference: Film presentations and discussion.
  • Refractory Epilepsy Conference:  Bi-monthly multidisciplinary conference. Potential candidates for epilepsy surgery will be presented for surgery planning after completion of their work up. 
  • SWARM: Unit level and hospital level.

Exhibitor Information

For annual exhibitor opportunities, click here: UK Exhibitor Opportunities 2020.pdf.

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Grand Rounds

Activity Director:  Padmaja Sudhakar, MD

Invited speakers will present lectures on topics within their areas of expertise. This will include updates on research techniques, new diagnostic or therapeutic modalities, standards of care, bioethics, epidemiology of diseases, and systems of practice. 

Accreditation

The University Of Kentucky College Of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University Of Kentucky College Of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

The University Of Kentucky College Of Medicine presents this activity for educational purposes only. Participants are expected to utilize their own expertise and judgment while engaged in the practice of medicine. The content of the presentations is provided solely by presenters who have been selected for presentations because of recognized expertise in their field.

ACGME Competencies

Patient care; Medical knowledge; Practice-based learning and improvement; Professionalism; Systems-based Practices.

Disclosure Statement

All planners, speakers, authors, and reviewers involved with content development for continuing education activities provided by the University of Kentucky are expected to disclose any real or perceived conflict of interest related to the content.

Upcoming Events

For vendor participation, please contact NeuroEducation@uky.edu

Listen Online and Earn Continuing Medical Education Credit

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Child Neurology Conference Series
Join us Wednesday mornings at 8 a.m. EST for the latest topics in Neurology.  To view the schedule, click here.

Grand Rounds
Join us Tuesday mornings at 8 a.m. EST for the latest topics in Neurology.  To view the schedule, click here.

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Maintenace of Certification Part IV Program

The UK HealthCare CECentral MOC Part IV Program assists physicians in meeting MOC Part IV requirements for American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) member boards participating in the Multi-Specialty MOC Portfolio Approval Program.  

The UKHC CECentral MOC Part IV Program:

  • Focuses on requirements of participating ABMS boards for MOC Part IV practice performance assessment

  • Oversees documentation to assure that UKHC-affiliated QI projects meet these requirements

  • Approves Part IV credit and offers 30 PI CME  AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (if applicable) for qualifying physicians actively participating in UKHC-affiliated QI projects as part of their routine work as well as other QI projects

  • Reduces the administrative burden for UK HealthCare-affiliated physicians seeking MOC Part IV credit as part of their recertification requirements with participating boards