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Continuing Medical Education
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, in order to provide the health care practitioners of SVCMC with the means to enhance their competence to deliver high quality medical and dental care, affirms its obligation to support a center-wide system of effective continuing medical education. The goal of this system is to upgrade health care throughout the Center by maintaining, augmenting and updating health practitioners' scientific knowledge, clinical skills and professional attitudes in order to facilitate the delivery of medical care to patients.
SVCMC serves as the academic medical center of New York Medical College in New York City.
Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers, in order to provide the health care practitioners of SVCMC with the means to enhance their competence to deliver high quality medical and dental care, affirms its obligation to support a center-wide system of effective continuing medical education. The goal of this system is to upgrade health care throughout the Center by maintaining, augmenting and updating health practitioners' scientific knowledge, clinical skills and professional attitudes in order to facilitate the delivery of medical care to patients.
We sponsor activities that are consistent with the hospitals mission, the population served and the patient services provided.
Topics include, but are not limited to, medical/surgical protocols, quality assurance, risk management, public health law and performance improvement.
Each year, the office of CME offers programs in the following areas:
- Cardiology
- Dental Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Practice
- Infectious Diseases
- Infection Control Training Courses
- Internal Medicine
- Neurosurgery
- Neuroradiology
- Obstetrics/Gynecology
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedics
- Pathology
- Pediatrics
- Performance Improvement
- Podiatry
- Psychiatry
- Radiology
- Risk Management
- Surgery
Resuscitation Programs
- Basic Life Support
- Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- Neonatal Resuscitation
- Advanced Trauma Life Support
- EMT/Paramedic Courses
The CME Department provides
- Yearly CME Bulletin
- Yearly Transcripts
- Provides services for planning & organizing all CME programs
- In-house grand rounds at all four hospitals
- Tumor Board Conferences
For information on programs in Manhattan please contact the Office of Continuing Medical Education at New York Medical College 914-594-4487.
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