Product Description

Directly provided by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons® (ASPS®)

The 2019 product is being extended to 2020 to assist those preparing for the ABPS exam

Accreditation Statement

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons® (ASPS®) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME® ) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons designates this enduring material for a maximum of 22.0AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Patient Safety Credit: 5.0

Release Date: 12/1/2018

Expiration Date: 12/31/2020

Complete a reflective statement to Claim Credit

Estimated time to complete this course:

1) Comprehensive Integument Module: 17 hours

2) Core Module: 5 hours

Intended Audience

This activity is intended for the more experienced plastic surgeon and other interested healthcare professionals.

Educational Overview

This activity has been designed to enhance the participant’s clinical knowledge base of plastic surgery in the following clinical component areas: 1) Comprehensive Integument and 2) Core. It is intended to serve as a self-assessment tool. The questions in this activity meet ABPS Maintenance of Certification® in Plastic Surgery (MOC-PS®) standards. Additionally, this activity will help members focus their MOC-PS® preparation efforts. All practice and test questions were reviewed and found to be objective and supported by appropriate review of the literature and align with evidence-based research. Content in this educational activity has been reviewed by peers and professionals to determine that the content is fair, balanced, and unbiased.

At the successful completion of both modules and providing a reflective statement, participants earn up to 22.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Participants may choose to study all modules or only those that are educationally relevant to their practice and professional interests. The contents include a selection of questions, critiqued responses, and references from recent In-Service Examinations for plastic surgeons. This product is provided in PDF format.

*Disclaimer

Use of these materials are provided with the understanding that utilization and completion of the questions does not imply or guarantee a successful outcome on maintenance of certification efforts.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

1. Utilize the most up-to-date information on the core curriculum of plastic surgery to improve patient care and obtain better outcomes in practice.

2. Identify their knowledge base of the two clinical component areas covered: Comprehensive Integument and Core.

3. Establish a benchmark for areas of focus needing further concentrated educational efforts.

4. Formulate a continual learning plan to participate in appropriate educational activities based upon results of this self assessment activity.

Disclosures

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) requires all instructors, planners, reviewers, managers, and other individuals in a position to control or influence the content of an activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships or affiliations. All identified conflicts of interest must be resolved and the educational content thoroughly vetted by ASPS for fair balance, scientific objectivity, and appropriateness of patient care recommendations. The ASPS also requires faculty/authors to disclose when off-label/unapproved uses of a product are discussed in a CME activity or included in related materials.

Disclosures of all Chairs, Speakers, Authors, Moderators, Reviewers, Committee Members and other appropriate individuals:

• Richard Baynosa, MD - Consultant relationship with Allergan; Stockholder relationship (excluding diversified funds) with Pfizer Stock
• Mark Brzezienski, MD - Consultant relationship with Invuity; Consultant relationship with Lifecell; Consultant relationship with Mentor; Consultant relationship with Pacira; Consultant relationship with Microaire. Grant recipient relationship with KLS; Grant recipient relationship with Mentor and the Musculoskeletal Tissue Foundation
• Umar Choudry, MD - Consultant relationship with Olympus
• Kyle Eberlin, MD - Cunsultant relationship with Axogen
• Brian Gastman, MD - Consultant relationship with Castle Biosciences; Consultant relationship with Quest Imaging; Consultant relationship with Epibone; Speaker's bureau member relationship with Merchk; Subeditor relationship with Annals of Plastic Surgery and Annals of Surgical Oncology
• Steven Haase, MD - Committee member relationship with ACS Committee on Trauma; Committee member relationship with ASSH Self-assessment exam committee
• Scott Hansen, MD - Speaker's bureau relationship with Smith and Nephew
• C. Scott Hultman, MD - Advisor relationship with Excelerate Health Ventures; Royalty relationship with CRC Press; Shareholder relationship (excluding diversified funds) with Excelerate Health Ventures; Associate editor relationship with Annals of Plastic Surgery; President, ACAPS 2016-2017; Member relationship with ACGME RC for Plastic Surgery
• Ergun Kocak, MD - Consultant relationship with Medtronic; Consultant relationship with Baxter; Consultant relationship with AlloSource; Speaker's bureau relationship with Vioptix
• Anand Kumar, MD - Advisor relationship with Polarity TE; Consultant relationship with Depuy; Grant recipient relationship with KLS Martin; Stockholder relationships (excluding diversified funds) with Polarity TE and Depuy Synthes
• Bryan McIntosh, MD - Speaker's bureau member relationship with MiMedx
• Suhail Mithani, MD - Outside interests relationship with Integra Life Sciences, KLS Martin; Grant relationship with MedComm Carolinas; Committe Member relationship with Chase Library Committe, American Society for Surgery of the Hand
• Michelle Roughton, MD - Consultant relationship with Lifecell; Associate editor relationship with PRS-GO
• Mark Sisco, MD - Advisor relationship with Surgical innovation Associates; Grant recipient relationship with Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation; Shareholder relationship (excluding diversified funds) relationship with Surgical innovation Associates; Editorial Board relationship with Journal of Surgical Oncology
• Aldona Spiegel, MD - Conulstant relationship with Mentor Worldwide; Conulstant relationship with Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
• Michael Suzman, MD - Consultant relationship with Sientra; Owner relationship with A Better Bandage LLC
• Simon Talbot, MD - Consultant relationship with Integra LifeSciences; Consultant relationship with LifeCell Consultant relationship with Cooper Surgical; Shareholder relationship (Excluding Diversified Funds) with Vivus; Grant recipient relationship with DoD; Grant recipient relationship with NIH

With the exception of those indicated above, the Chairs, Authors, Reviewers, Committee Members, Volunteers and Staff involved with developing and producing the 2018 In-Service Exam have indicated that they have no conflicts of interest relating to the activity to disclose.

ASPS In-Service Examination Committee

Writing 2018 In-Service Exam

Overall Committee Chair: Sean Bidic MD, FAAP, FACS

Product Code: 26066-00