McMaster Stroke Update ½ Day

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TARGET AUDIENCE

Family Physicians, Specialists, Internists, Hospitalists, Physician Assistants, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Nurses, Clinicians, Residents, Students, and Other Health Professionals.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENTS

McMaster University, Continuing Health Sciences Education Program (CHSE) is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME) to provide CFPC Mainpro+ and RCPSC Maintenance of Certification (MOC) study credits for Continuing Medical Education.

This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the McMaster University Continuing Health Sciences Program for up to 3 Mainpro+ credits.

This activity is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and approved by McMaster University, Continuing Health Sciences Education Program for up to 3 MOC Section 1 hours.

Through an agreement between the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert Royal College MOC credits to AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Information on the process to convert Royal College MOC credit to AMA credit can be found at www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme.

*Each attendee should only claim the hours they attended.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the end of this activity, participants will be able to:

Recognize the role of the Family Physician, Nurse Practitioner, and Non-Neurologist in the integral management of people with stroke across the continuum of care.
Discuss an approach to the assessment and management of patients presenting with TIA, acute stroke, and after discharge from hospital with stroke.
Prescribe appropriate antiplatelet or anticoagulant treatment after TIA, ischemic stroke, or hemorrhagic stroke based on the best evidence.
Describe the various roles of healthcare providers within the hospital system, the regional stroke network, and the community in providing best practice stroke care.

PRESENTATION SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES

TOPIC	SESSION-SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of the lecture and Q&A session the learners will be able to:	CanMEDS Competency	LEARNING METHOD	SPEAKER
What’s new in the Management of the patient with TIA	Identify a patient presenting with TIA; arrange for initial investigations; start the initial risk reduction strategies.	ME, Comm, HA, Coll, ML	Lecture with Q&A	Dr. D. Sahlas
What’s new in Management of the patient with acute stroke	Identify a patient presenting with acute stroke; arrange for the initial triage and investigations as appropriate.	ME, Comm, HA, Coll, ML	Lecture with Q&A	Dr. L. Catanese
What’s new in Management of the patient after stroke.	Identify post stroke issues; Initiate outpatient treatment; Refer as appropriate to stroke specialists.	ME, Comm, HA, Coll, ML	Lecture with Q&A	Dr. W. Oczkowski
Update on Antiplatelet Therapy after TIA or Ischemic Stroke	Identify different stroke aetiologies; Initiate and or continue appropriate antiplatelet treatment.	ME, Coll, ML, SC	Lecture with Q&A	Dr. C. Yegappan
Update on Anticoagulation after TIA or Ischemic Stroke	Identify different stroke aetiologies; initiate and or continue appropriate anticoagulant treatment.	ME, Coll, ML, SC	Lecture with Q&A	Dr. K. Ng
Update on Anticoagulation after hemorrhagic stroke or CVST	Understand hemorrhagic stroke aetiologies; initiate and or continue anticoagulant treatment as appropriate.	ME, Coll, ML, SC	Lecture with Q&A	Dr. A. Shoamanesh
Discuss your cases / Ask the experts	Discuss their own difficult cases; Ask stroke experts any question.	ME, Comm, HA, Coll, ML	Case discussion & Q&A (workshop)	Dr. M. Sharma