Featuring consistently sold-out cadaver labs, preconference labs and workshops at ACEP16 are sure to improve your skills. For an additional fee, there are several educational opportunities that offer additional CME credit outside of the ACEP16 program.

Here are the options in Las Vegas:

ACEP Advanced EMS Practitioners’ Forum & Workshop

Date: Saturday, Oct. 15
Full day: 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Half day: 1–5:30 p.m.
Cost: Full day: $225 physician, $150 EMS/RN , Half day: $150

ACEP Advanced EMS Practitioners’ Forum & Workshop is an interactive leadership course designed for EMS medical directors, fellowship directors, EMS chiefs, educators, base station doctors, and EMS managers and administrators. Learn what other EMS systems are doing and have the opportunity to discuss your systems issues and challenges with other EMS medical directors from across the country.

Mass Casualty Medical Operations Management

Date: Saturday, Oct. 15
Time: 8 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Cost: $225 physician, $150 EMS/RN

Learn the principles of mass casualty medical operations management from planning through recovery, whether you are the single-coverage physician in a small community hospital or one of many in a large urban medical center. Learn the skills and principles you need to plan, prepare, and manage any kind of mass casualty incident or patient surge event.

Emergency Ultrasound Management Course

Date: Saturday, Oct. 15
Time: 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Cost: $275

Hear from national experts with highly successful emergency ultrasound programs. New to 2016 will be interactive panel discussions. Two tracks run concurrently: Core and Advanced. Registrants of both tracks will come together at noon for lunch and breakout sessions. A reception after the course offers access to ultrasound leaders and fellow registrants. These courses are not about how to perform ultrasound exams.

Core Track: Is emergency ultrasound something that you have been able to get into your department? Are you a fellow who needs management expertise? The Core Track is designed for physicians or coordinators who are starting a new program or want some advice for improving an existing program. The core topics include the role of the director, specifics of machine purchase, and a thorough explanation of billing.

Advanced Track: This course is for ultrasound directors with existing programs who have attended the Emergency Ultrasound Management Course at least once and have an interest in expansion and maturation of their program. There is special focus on ultrasound education as well as evolving issues like international, reimbursement, credentialing, and QA. The sessions include incorporating simulation, advanced billing concepts, safety and accreditation, and running an institution-wide ultrasound program.

Procedural Cadaver Labs

Date: Saturday, Oct. 15
Time: 8 a.m.–noon: Advanced Invasive Procedural Skills Lab SOLD OUT
1:30–5:30 p.m.: Heroic Life- and Limb-Saving Procedural Skills Lab FILLING FAST
Cost: $1,195

Resuscitation of the critically ill is one of the most stressful and frustrating components of our clinical practice yet among the most rewarding. Our patients deserve excellence in our ability to provide safe invasive procedures. These procedures are often required to save a life yet are often not utilized because of lack of practice and familiarity with the procedure itself and advances in equipment and technique. These hands-on labs are designed to improve practitioner competence of invasive emergency procedures in a safe and controlled environment. Nationally renowned faculty known for their expertise in invasive procedures will closely supervise each participant. The labs utilize fresh, unembalmed cadavers, which closely simulate the anatomy and feel of an actual patient. Join the lab that will assist you in providing quality care for your patients.

Disruptive Innovations in Acute and Emergency Care: Aligning Payment and Delivery Reform

Date: Saturday, Oct. 15
Time: 12:30–5:30 p.m.
Cost: $89 ACEP members, $139 non-members, $69 residents

This session will highlight new disruptive innovations in acute and emergency care. Disruptive innovations are those that create new markets, often changing market dynamics and creating value through new models, such as freestanding emergency departments, home-hospital care, community paramedicine, or telemedicine. In addition, emergency physicians are leading disruptive innovation within hospital-based emergency departments. These new models will need to be superimposed on a rapidly changing payment system that is moving away from fee-for-service to alternative payment models. Learn directly from leaders on the front lines of this change, plus gain an understanding of what works and what doesn’t, the policies that govern these new changes, and how to strategize in the near and long term.

Sponsored by ACEP and Urgent Matters.