CME CE

CEUL043213 - The Diabetic Foot: Multi-Management Case Based Approach to Patient Care

Offered By
University Of Michigan Podiatry

24 Frank Lloyd Wright Drive
Lobby G, Suite 1500
Ann Arbor, MI  48105  USA
  734.232.2252
  marrhode@umich.edu

Course Description:

We have physical therapy at Michigan Medicine (MM) and they are an intimate part of the multidisciplinary wound clinic at Michigan Medicine. Physical therapy professionals are already established as part of the wound care team, both inpatient and outpatient. Part of our goal is to share within our community is that the physical therapy part of a multi-management approach team is available, dedicated, that they have services that will promote better outcomes for complicated diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) patients. There is a physical therapist on our planning committee and several on our panels who is already working collaboratively on a multi-management approach team with the wound care professionals in the Michigan Medicine Wound Care Clinic and our Michigan Medicine podiatrists. This conference allows for bidirectional communication: PTs who are involved at Michigan Medicine in wound care can come and benefit from everyone else’s knowledge and connect with others who want to work on a multi-management approach team and learning how to be a part of that team, as well as meeting other who also want to work in the same fashion and sharing their PT knowledge and commitment to this problem is a big benefit to those who are not PTs.
PTs who attend will:
1)   have improved comprehension of wound care services utilized to heal foot wounds with tissue loss, infection and vascular disease,
2) understand the importance of multispecialty management of diabetic foot complications and their role in the patient care team,
3) appreciate efforts and outcomes associated with limb salvage attempts at MM and their role in these outcomes, and
4) operate on a health care team with a more patient-centered approach to DFU patient management,
5) be aware of successful processes that are currently being used at MM, but the therapist may not have previously known about and/or have a contact to seek further assistance about these processes,
6) be able refer early, timely consultations/inclusion of other medical subspecialties, and vis versa, respond quickly when others reach out for consultations in a timely and aggressive manner,
7) be able to coordinate with the entire multi-management team to mange DFU patients, and
8) be able to engage with those the therapist has met that the therapist now specifically knows within the MM system that are committed to engaging in a multi-management environment as a resource and future care.

PLEASE NOTE: Upon your approved the new MPTA logo will replace the old logo on the flyers and the 5 credits will be added to the flyers (this was approved today by UM).

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