Product Description

SNIPS is a new kind of educational course, cutting directly to the information you need to know in a short, visual format. Developed directly from content performance deficiencies from recent ABPS Continuous Certification Exams, these streamlined learning modules feature quick, easily digestible videos on important topics your peers struggled with last year.  This course focuses on important topics, in a short, visual Q&A format.

In this course, you will learn about:

• Breast Cancer Risk Factors
• Breast Cancer Evaluation & Staging
• Breast Reconstruction Microsurgery Pharmacology
• Breast Reconstruction Microimaging
• BIA-ALCL

Intended Audience

This educational activity is intended for all CME-related persons including plastic surgery practitioners, residents, and other healthcare professionals. 

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to do the following:

1. After completing this activity, learners should be able to describe current breast cancer screening recommendations, identify the major imaging modalities and suspicious radiographic findings associated with malignancy, and explain how biopsy results and TNM-based clinical/pathologic staging guide evaluation and management. Learners should also be able to relate imaging and nodal assessment findings to overall breast cancer diagnosis, prognostication, and surgical decision-making.
2. After completing this activity, learners should be able to identify the major technical and patient-related risk factors for microsurgical thrombosis in breast reconstruction and describe the mechanisms, indications, and routes of administration of commonly used agents for vasospasm management, thrombus prophylaxis, and thrombolysis. Learners should also be able to apply this knowledge to balance anastomotic patency with bleeding risk in perioperative microsurgical decision-making.
3. After completing this activity, learners should be able to recognize the risk factors and clinical presentation of BIA-ALCL, outline the key diagnostic criteria and recommended workup, and describe current treatment principles including implant removal, complete capsulectomy, and oncologic referral when indicated. Learners should also be able to incorporate implant history and delayed periprosthetic fluid or mass findings into timely evaluation and management decisions.
4. After completing this activity, learners should be able to identify the major risk factors for breast cancer, discuss appropriate screening considerations in patients undergoing benign breast surgery, and explain the significance of incidental pathologic findings in surgical specimens. Learners should also be able to incorporate risk assessment, preoperative counseling, and multidisciplinary referral into management decisions when occult malignancy or risk-increasing lesions are identified.
5. After completing this activity, learners should be able to compare the principal abdominally based free flap options for breast reconstruction, explain the anatomic and clinical factors that guide flap selection, and describe the role of preoperative imaging in assessing perforator and pedicle anatomy. Learners should also be able to apply CTA, MRA, and ultrasound findings to plan flap harvest more efficiently while minimizing donor-site morbidity.

Faculty

Richard Baynosa, MD, FACS

Mark Falco, MD

Joshua Goldman, MD

David Light, MD

Sarah Persing, MD, MPH

Contributor

Jennifer Baynosa, MD, FACS

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

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ listed below. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM: 1.0

Media: Multimedia

Release Date:  4/20/26

Expiration Date: 4/20/29*

Estimated time to complete this course: 1 hour

*Course access ends on course expiration date

Of the 1.0 credits, 0.5 have been identified as applicable to patient safety. 

Disclosure Policy

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) requires all faculty, authors, planners, reviewers, managers, staff 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. 

Disclaimer: All relevant financial relationships for planners, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) are reviewed by the ASPS Continuing Education Committee and have been mitigated, if applicable. 

The following planners/faculty members/reviewers have no relevant financial relationships or affiliations to disclose:  

Richard Baynosa, MD, FACS

Mark Falco, MD

Joshua Goldman, MD

David Light, MD

Sarah Persing, MD, MPH

Jennifer Baynosa, MD, FACS

Recognition Statement

The Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits offered by this activity are enhanced by ASPS Learner Credit Reporting for learners who have opted into this reporting. Successful completion of this CME activity enables active American Board of Surgery (ABS) members the opportunity to earn credit toward the CME requirement of the ABS's Continuous Certification program when claimed within 30 days of completion of the activity. 

Participants in ASPS-accredited education who want their CME credits reported to certifying and state licensing boards must opt-in to reporting and add their NPI as well as state license ID and/or collaborating board ID(s) before claiming credit. 

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

Product Code: 34081