SAGES Postgraduate Courses
Surgeon in the Digital Age: PDA Workshop for Surgeons
Course Director: Steven Schwaitzberg, MD



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Product ID: MS1115
Year Produced: 2005
Length: 159 minutes
 

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PDAs offer practicing surgeons mobility and efficiency in managing their busy practice. This course is designed to help users explore the possibilities for use in their own practice, and get the most out of their PDA.

Objective: To understand the use of PDAs in surgical practice as a reference library, dictation tool and surgical database.

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Discussions
What is Possible Today and Tomorrow?
Speaker: Steven Schwaitzberg, MD
  • Basic PDA function
  • Address function
  • Calendar function
  • Moving data between PDAs
  • Windows-based
  • Palm-based
PDA as an Updatable Drug Reference Tool
Speaker: Daniel Herron, MD
About AJCC TNM
Speaker: Alex Gandsas, MD
  • Springer Cancer Staging Handbook
PDA-based Database
Speaker: Daniel Herron, MD
Using the PDA as a Practice Management Tool
Speaker: Steven Schwaitzberg, MD
  • Dictation
  • E & M coding
SAGES Outcome Initiative
Speaker: Alex Gandsas, MD
PDA as a Presentation Tool
Speaker: Steven Schwaitzberg, MD
  • Media files
  • PowerPoint
  • Digital projection

Who Should Participate:

This course is appropriate for surgical residents and attending surgeons with an interest in minimally invasive surgery, and/or surgical education.

Objectives

To understand the use of PDAs in surgical practice as a reference library, dictation tool and surgical database.

Method of Physician Participation

Physicians should participate in the learning process by watching the video, reading the syllabus, and then taking the self-assessment Post-Test. If participants wish to discuss these topics further, they may contact the faculty using the contact information included in the syllabus.

Released October 2005

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