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The NAEYC Annual Conference is the largest early childhood education conference in the world. Each year, tens of thousands of teachers, program administrators, students, and researchers choose from hundreds of presentations and exhibits to explore the latest trends and research in the early childhood field.

Full details: https://www.naeyc.org/events/annual

Experience UConn’s three-week winter session from December 26, 2019 – January 17, 2019.

UConn’s Winter Session offers over 100 classes to choose from. Take classes at any UConn Campus or online regardless of your Home Campus.

Get Ahead. Fulfill Requirements. Start the year off right.

Visit https://wintersession.uconn.edu/ for additional details.

Department of Surgery Teaching Conference

Surgical Morbidity & Mortality Conference

Provided by
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and the Department of Surgery


Speaker: Brian Shames, MD
Date: November 20, 2019
Time: 7:15 – 8:15 a.m.
Location: Academic Building - AM014 - B9

Target Audience: Department of Surgery Faculty, Residents, Mid-Levels/Clinicians, Medical Students

Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):
1. Discuss strategies for preventing common surgical complications.
2. Discuss strategies for recognizing and treating common surgical complications.
3. Discuss and implement evidence based surgical literature conclusions to improve surgical outcomes

Accreditation: The University of Connecticut School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Connecticut School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Conflict of Interest Policy: All faculty members participating in CME activities provided by the University of Connecticut School of Medicine are required to disclose to the program audience any actual or apparent conflict of interest related to the content of their presentations. Program planners have an obligation to resolve any actual conflicts of interest and share with the audience any safeguards put in place to prevent commercial bias from influencing the content.

Neither the activity director, planning committee members, nor the speaker, Dr. Shames, have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation.

Dr. Shames will not be discussing the off-labeled use of any product.

This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.


Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an electronic evaluation in order to obtain CME Credits. An email from http://MyEvaluations.com with instructions will be sent to participants. Please complete the evaluation within one week of receiving the email.

If you do not receive an evaluation assignment from http://MyEvaluations.com within 10 business days of this activity, please contact the Department that hosted this activity (indicated above) to ensure that your http://MyEvaluations.com account is set up and your participation in this activity was forwarded to the CME office.

This material is confidential and is utilized as defined in Connecticut State Statute Sec19a-25 (formerly Sec 19-6a) for evaluating and improving the quality of health care rendered.

On Wednesday, November 20th Early College Experience and the UConn Sociology Faculty invite all certified UConn ECE Sociology instructors to attend the annual professional development conference. Registration will begin at 8:30am in the Student Union Building, Room 303.

For details and to register see: https://ece112019sociology.eventbrite.com

This webinar is held for anyone interested in enrolling in UConn School of Engineering Professional Education’s Master of Engineering, Advanced Engineering Certificates, or taking classes on a non-degree basis. Details about admissions, program curriculum and upcoming course offerings will be provided. Also, the webinar will dig-deep into what makes a graduate degree or certificate program in engineering so valuable for today's engineers and employers.

Register here: https://soeprofed.uconn.edu/meng-and-engineering-certificate-webinars/.