MCN Sponsored Webinars

We are pleased to offer 1 hour of CME* or CNE credit at no cost to participants.   

Migrant Clinicians Network is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.  

*Application for CME credit has been filed with the American Academy of Family Physicians. Determination of credit is pending.

Upcoming Webinars

The Migrant Clinicians Network is pleased to bring a four-part webinar series on cancer prevention, treatment and survivorship to health centers and others working with immigrant populations. 

Working with Migrant and Immigrant Communities to Prevent, Treat and Survive Cancer 4-part Webinar Series

Demonstrating Quality of Care in Cancer Screening for Difficult to Reach Populations
DATE: Wednesday, May 23, 2012
TIME: 10:00am PST (Noon CST, 1:00pm EST)

To register for this webinar please click here.

DESCRIPTION:
In recent years there has been increasing emphasis placed on the ability to demonstrate clinical quality through health outcomes throughout the health care sector. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has been working to generate greater emphasis on health outcomes and demonstrate the value of care delivered by health centers funded under Health Center Program. However, the ability to measure the quality of care provided is greatly complicated when health centers are working with special populations whose life circumstances may make it difficult to incorporate them into a more traditional set of services.  

This presentation will consist of a review of the Clinical Core Measures required by the BPHC related to cancer screening with particular emphasis on reaching the hardest to serve. The presenters will review the specific clinical core measures tied to the screening of both cervical cancer and the recently added colon cancer. The presentation will give detailed descriptions of the measures as well as methods of data collection using both paper charts and EHRs. The presentation will conclude with a “real life” case study from a health center who was struggling with their Cervical Cancer Screening Measure.

PRESENTERS:

Edward Zuroweste, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Migrant Clinicians Network

Hans Dethlefs, MD, Medical Director at Heartland Community Health Network

Edward Zuroweste, MDDr. Zuroweste began his work with migrants as a partner in a private practice in Chambersberg, PA. He later became the Medical Director of Keystone Health Center, a large Migrant and Community Health Center in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. While attending to his administrative responsibilities, Dr. Zuroweste also maintained a full-time clinical practice in family practice and obstetrics, including full hospital privileges in Pediatrics, Adult Medicine and Obstetrics.

In addition to his work with MCN, Dr. Zuroweste is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he directs an International Rural Health Elective in Honduras. Dr. Zuroweste is also the staff physician for Dauphin and Franklin County HD tuberculosis clinic, PA Dept. of Health; a Clinical Consultant for 3 separate consulting firms; and serves as a Locum Tenem family physician for multiple sites.

Dr. Zuroweste has traveled extensively in Central America, especially Honduras and Guatemala both for teaching and pleasure. He has also traveled to Europe, South America and the Caribbean.

Dr. Zuroweste is married with three children. When not working, Dr. Zuroweste enjoys long distance running, listen to great music, great movies and concerts, work out of doors, and travel with family and friends to far off locations.

Hans Dethlefs, MD

Dr Hans Dethlefs is a family physician at the OneWorld Community Health Center in Omaha, NE.  Apart from providing direct patient care he serves as the medical director for the Heartland Community Health Network.  In this capacity he focuses on EHR development, EHR reporting, and supporting quality improvement for the network members.


OBJECTIVES: 

  1. The participant will understand the details of the BPHC Cervical and Colon Cancer Clinical Measures and the rational for this requirement.
  2. The participant will be able to obtain accurate data on their health centers cancer screening measures in both paper medical records and EHR format.
  3. The participant will understand the process that a health center can employ to analyze the results of a cancer clinical measure and design a step wise method to achieve improvement.

SPONSORED BY: Migrant Clinicians Network

 

Moviéndose en contra del Cáncer
FECHA: Wednesday, mayo 30, 2012
HORA: 10:00am PST (Noon CST, 1:00pm EST)

Para inscribirse en este seminario por favor clic aquí.

DESCRIPCIÓN:
A través de una Capacitación Intensiva, en la cual los asistentes tendrán la oportunidad de ampliar los conocimientos generales sobre el Cáncer, factores de riesgo, recursos disponibles de ayuda en su comunidad y la importancia  de impulsar a la comunidad de realizarse los exámenes de detección oportuna.

PRESENTADOR:

Bertha Armendariz, MD, Border Health Specialist at Migrant Clinicians Network

Bertha Armendariz, MDBertha Armendáriz, MD works for MCN as the TBNet Program Coordinator for El Paso, TX and Las Cruces, NM. She also serves as a consultant for MCN’s Immunizations Initiative, helps coordinate pesticide education in the area and directs MCN’s nutrition program for border tuberculosis patients.

Prior to working with MCN, Dr. Armendáriz worked for the Secretaria de Salud as a Staff Physician at a Rural Public Health Center at a Juárez México Border. She also worked for the Secretaria de Salud as Clinical Director of a Family Practice Rural Clinic at a Juárez México Border.

Dr. Armendáriz received her medical degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Cuidad Juárez, School of Medicine. She completed an Internship at Instituto de Seguridad Social para los Trabajadores del Estado with a fellowship in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. She currently attends the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua pursing a Masters degree in Healthcare Administration.

Dr. Armendariz was born and raised in Juarez, Mexico. She is particular concerned with the spread of infectious diseases and is very committed to helping migrants and other underserved people in the border region.

She enjoys spending time with her husband and three daughters. Dr. Armendariz also plays piano and spends time listening to classical music. She enjoys the outdoors and sports such as basketball, Kung-Fu, and Judo. She teaches self-defense techniques to young women in Juarez.

OBJETIVOS GENERALES: 

  1. Al final de la capacitación el participante será capaz de.
  2. Comprender la importancia y los beneficios de los programas de promotores para educar a la comunidad en términos de prevención del Cáncer.
  3. Entender las generalidades sobre el Cáncer. y los tipos de Cáncer mas comunes entre la población hispana o latina.
  4. Tendrá conocimiento de los métodos de diagnósticos mas comunes para el Cáncer y tratamiento en general.
  5. Educar e impulsar a la comunidad a realizarse los exámenes para la detección oportuna del Cáncer, así como de buscar los recursos de ayuda disponibles en su comunidad.

PATROCINADO POR: Migrant Clinicians Network

How to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates in Your Primary Care Practice 
DATE: Wednesday, June 6, 2012
TIME: 10:00am PST (Noon CST, 1:00pm EST)

To register for this webinar please click here.

DESCRIPTION:
While the burdens on primary care practitioners are greater than ever before, the need for effective primary care practice is just as great. Colorectal cancer (CRC) is both the nation’s second-leading cause of cancer mortality and one of its most preventable cancers. Screening for colorectal cancer, like other highly effective preventive measures, is one of the essential elements of primary care practice. While the overwhelming majority of primary care clinicians screen for colorectal cancer and other cancers, few would say that every eligible patient leaves the practice with the needed recommendation. It is not enough to know what needs to be done. It is doing it that makes a difference. This webinar will provide participants with evidence-based tools and strategies to help move primary care practice to a higher level of performance based on the highly effective A Primary Care Clinician’s Evidence-Based Toolbox and Guide.

PRESENTER:

Durado Brooks, MD, MPH, American Cancer Society

Durando Brooks, MD, MPHDr. Brooks has served as the director of prostate and colorectal cancers at the American Cancer Society’s National Home Office since 2000.  In this role he is involved in creating and implementing strategies to improve the prevention and early detection of prostate and colorectal cancers, and is engaged in a number of the Society’s disparities-reductions efforts.  

After graduating from the Ohio State University and the Wright State University School of Medicine, Dr. Brooks practiced primary care internal medicine in community health centers, initially in Ohio and later in his current hometown of Dallas, TX.  Prior to joining the ACS he was awarded a Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship and earned his MPH degree at the Harvard School of Public Health.

OBJECTIVES: 

  1. Participants will discuss why it is important to screen for colorectal cancer.
  2. Participants will describe the “Four Essentials” for improved colorectal cancer screening rates.
  3. Participants will discuss the importance of clinician recommendations in colorectal cancer screening rates.
  4. Participants will evaluate their existing office policies, including an office reminder system, to determine what improvements could be made to improve colorectal cancer screening.
  5. Participants will describe the key elements of an effective communication system.

SPONSORED BY: Migrant Clinicians Network

Moving Against Cancer: Effective Detection and Management of Cancer in Underserved Latinos
DATE: Tuesday, June 12, 2012
TIME: 10:00am PST (Noon CST, 1:00pm EST)

To register for this webinar please click here.

DESCRIPTION:
The Moving Against Cancer webinar will present health care providers with current recommendations on cancer screening, diagnosis, and referral in the primary care setting, with a focus on underserved Hispanics. The training provides unique and valuable information on cultural issues in cancer care, best practices, identification of culturally appropriate resources, and networks such as Ventanillas de Salud and MCN’s Health Network. Resources and educational materials will be presented that are adapted to the special needs of the Hispanic mobile poor.

PRESENTER:

Jennie McLaurin, MD, MPH, Specialist, Child & Migrant Health, Bioethics at Migrant Clinicians Network  

Jennie McLaurin, MD, MPHDr. Jennie McLaurin has thirty years of experience in working with migrant farmworker populations, starting as an outreach worker in 1982. She is a pediatrician with a degree in maternal and child health, and has worked at the local, state, and national level on developing programs, policies, and publications for migration health, cultural proficiency, child health, and bioethics. Her past experience includes work as an outreach worker, clinician, medical director, faculty member and consultant. She has assisted MCN with a Centers for Disease Control sponsored initiative to improve immunization coverage to migrant families, served as a faculty member for the HRSA Health Disparity Collaboratives, and lectured widely on a number of clinical topics. She provides graduate education in the fields of bioethics and migration health to a number of university programs.

Dr. McLaurin received a BS in chemistry from Salem College, an MD from Wake Forest University, an MPH in maternal and child health from UNC-Chapel Hill, and an MCS with a bioethics thesis from Regent College graduate school in Vancouver, BC Canada.

Work experience also includes several months in southern India and short assignments in the Dominican Republic.

When not at work, Dr. McLaurin likes to spend time with her family, especially if it means being outside in the Pacific Northwest.

OBJECTIVES: 

  1. Participants will receive current health disparity data on common cancers.
  2. Participants will receive screening and diagnostic protocols endorsed by the American Cancer Society for skin, oral, breast, cervical, colorectal, and prostate cancers.
  3. Participants will receive skills training in motivational interviewing techniques, including the use of confidence and importance scales.
  4. Participants will have access to culturally appropriate patient education materials related to common cancers.
  5. Participants will be able to describe at least four cultural factors that influence patient readiness for cancer screening, detection, and follow-up.
  6. Participants will know how to access the MCN Health Network patient navigation system for mobile poor patients.
  7. Participants will be aware of the Ventanillas de Salud (VdS) program, their local VdS site, and opportunities for collaboration.

SPONSORED BY: Migrant Clinicians Network

 

FTCC US/Mexico Border Collaborative Webinar

Keeping Mobile Patients in Care Across and Between Borders | Focus on HIV, STD, TB, Addiction, & Family Planning Concerns 
DATE: Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
TIME: (This webinar is offered at two different times. Each webinar is the same and will be 1.5 hours long. Webinar will be conducted via toll-free number and Adobe Connect)

Webinar 1: 12 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Central / 10 a.m. Mountain / 9 a.m. Pacific
Webinar 2: 12 p.m. Pacific / 3 p.m. Eastern / 2 p.m. Central / 1 p.m. Mountain

Registration is required. http://tinyurl.com/FTCC053012
Please indicate Webinar 1 or Webinar 2.

**Our very own Edward Zuroweste, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Migrant Clinicians Network, will be one speaking in this group**

SPONSORED BY: The U.S./Mexico Border AETC Steering Team (UMBAST) | The Texas/Oklahoma AIDS Education & Training Center | Pacific AIDS Education & Training Center | Mountain Plains AIDS Education & Training Center | Pacific Southwest & Gulf Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Centers | California & Dallas HIV/STD Prevention Training Centers Cardea Services | Curry International Tuberculosis Center | Heartland National TB Center | U.S./Mexico Border Health Commission | U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement | Migrant Clinicians Network

OBJECTIVES: 

  1. Participants will be able to discuss the importance of retaining mobile populations in continuous care
  2. Participants will be able to review a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) model for migrant populations
  3. Participants will we able to obtain bilingual HIV/STD referral fact sheets for Mexico & HIV fact sheets for 6 Central American countries
  4. Participants will be able to utilize US federal training centers and Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) as continuity of care resources for mobile patients travelling within the US and across the US border.

This free continuing education workshop is available to physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other providers serving the impacted patient populations. This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Curry International Tuberculosis Center and the UCLA/PAETC. The Curry International Tuberculosis Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This conference is approved for 1.5 continuing education hours. The Curry International Tuberculosis Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The Curry International Tuberculosis Center is approved as a provider of continuing education by the California State Board of Registered Nurses, Provider Number CEP 12308. This conference is approved for up to 1.5 continuing education contact hours.

To register for this webinar please click here. Registration is required.
Please indicate Webinar 1 or Webinar 2.

 

Archived Webinars

Click on the webinar's title below to access a link to the recorded version and addtional resources associated with each webinar:

 

The following archived webinars below are housed on the Clinical Directors Network website. 

 

 

DISCLAIMER
This material was produced, in part, under grant SH-22284-11-60-F-19 from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor. It does not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the U.S. Department of Labor, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government.

For any questions or additional information about MCN Sponsored Webinars, please email Jillian Hopewell at jhopewell@migrantclinician.org.