Brachial Plexus Birth Injuries: Community Provider Learning Modules

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Overview

Please note this course meets once weekly throughout this scheduled series. 

This program was created to address the health inequalities that children and families in rural and underserved areas face when it comes to accessing specialists for the evaluation and treatment of BPBIs. These areas often have a scarcity of providers who specialize in treating this condition. Therefore, the author developed this program to bridge the gap in providing access to specialty care by enhancing the ability of community providers to care for children within their own community.

Course Format

This weekly virtual education session includes a lecture from an orthopedic physician and OT/PT, followed by 30 minutes of active learning activities and a Q&A session. 

Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will:

1. Demonstrate understanding of BPBI risk factors, anatomy, and different levels of injury
2. Identify BPBIs and know how to appropriately triage referrals to orthopedic or neurology specialists.
3. Demonstrate understanding of critical timelines in healing and competence with the most important stretches and therapeutic exercises to incorporate into play to decrease contractures and bone changes while building strength as the child heals following a BPBI.
4. Understand the influence of social determinants of health, health literacy, psychosocial, long-term health, and participation concerns following WHO-ICF.
5. Understand orthotic and adaptive equipment needs to facilitate function and/or prevent soft tissue and joint deformities.
6. Understand non-surgical and post-operative protocols.

Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Boston Children’s Hospital is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physical Therapists
Boston Children’s Hospital is an approved provider designated by the APTA of MA. Boston Children’s approves Brachial Plexus Birth Injuries: Community Provider Learning Modules for 10.00 Continuing Education Hours.

Disclosure Policy

Boston Children’s Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children’s may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.

The following planners, speakers, and content reviewers, on behalf of themselves and their spouse or partner, have reported no relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on patients.

Margaret Maynard	Caitlin Yengo
Andrea Bauer

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Evaluation Information:

At the completion of the live webinar a post-conference email from cmedepartment@childrens.harvard.edu will grant you access to the online evaluation. Once you complete the evaluation, your CE certificate will be automatically generated.

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