Accreditation
Physician
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for a maximum 20.0  AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(credit numbers broken down by course option and reflected in chart below). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in this activity. 

Nurse
Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for a maximum 20.0 contact hours for nurses (credit numbers broken down by course option and reflected in chart below). Nurses should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Boston Children’s Hospital is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP. Boston Children’s Hospital designates this activity for a maximum of 20.0 continuing education credits (credit numbers broken down by course option and reflected in chart below). Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider, or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ADA.org/CERP.

Dentistry
This activity carries a maximum of see chart below contact hours. Dentists should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

In-Person Conference CME Credits Nursing Credits Dentistry Credits
Two- Day Conference 15.0 15.0 15.0
Optional Saturday Breakfast Panel 1.0 1.0 1.0
Optional Saturday Lunch Panel 1.5 1.5 1.5
Optional Sunday Breakfast Panel 1.0 1.0 1.0
Optional Sunday Lunch Panel 1.5 1.5 1.5
For a maximum of 20.0 20.0 20.0
AAPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ for the PRA from organizations accredited by ACCME.

Through an agreement between the American Medical Association and the European Union of Medical Specialists, physicians may convert AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to an equivalent number of European CME Credits® (ECMECs®). Information on the process of converting AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ to ECMECs® can be found at: www.eaccme.eu.

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada recognizes conferences and workshops held outside of Canada that are developed by a university, academy, hospital, specialty society or college as accredited group learning activities.
Risk Management Credits
This activity meets the requirements for 16 Risk Management Credits as proscribed by the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Medicine and defined in 243 CMR 2.06(5)(d) I. Please check your individual state licensing board requirements before claiming these credits.


The sessions approved for Risk Management are outlined below:
  • Dexmedetomidine Interactive Round-Table Breakfast
  • Setting Up a Sedation Program: Interactive Round-Table Breakfast
  • Social and Cognitive Bias in the Care of Pediatric Patients
  • Adverse Events, What Increases Risk
  • Pre-Sedation Assessment: Identifying Red Flags
  • Identifying and Managing Pediatric Airway Risks
  • Airway Management: A Lecture and Hands-On Workshop for Basic and Advanced Airway Management Skills (Mask Ventilation, LMA and Endotracheal Intubation)
  • Mobile Sedation: From Soup to Nuts
  • How To Maximize Safety in Office-Based Sedation Settings
  • Does Intravenous Lidocaine of Benefit to Sedation
  • In the NOSE- Exploring Nasal Sedation
  • Common Substance and Vaping Abuse Disorders: What Should The Sedationist Know
  • Dexmedetomidine and Remimazolam: 2 Sedatives, Similar Applications?
  • Challenging Cases Panel Interactive Audience Based Discussions
  • Sedation Strategies for Painful Procedures: An Interactive Round Discussion
  • Sedation Strategies for Procedural Sedation: Bring Your Challenging Cases!
  • Magic is An Anxiolytic, Distraction Technique and a Compliment to Sedation: A Las Vegas Magician Opens His Bag of Tricks!
  • Physiologic Monitors: Nuts, Bolts, and Beyond?
  • Pediatric Obesity: Evaluating Risk and Approaching Sedation
  • Virtual Reality: A New Tool for Anxiolysis, Distraction and Analgesia
  • Rapid Hypnotic Techniques, Learn How to Easily Apply them to your Sedation?
  • Sedation and Pain Management in Children with Cognitive Impairment In and Sublingual Drugs
  • Non-Opioid Analgesics
  • Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacologic Techniques to Improve the Peripheral Catheter Placement Experience
  • Common Cardiac Anomalies Reviewed: Understanding the Disease and Tailoring the Safest Approach
  • Ethical Considerations: Teenage Assent

Disclosure Statement

Boston Children's Hospital adheres to all ACCME Essential Areas, Standards, and Policies. It is Boston Children’s policy that those who have influenced the content of a CME activity (e.g. planners, faculty, authors, reviewers and others) disclose all relevant financial relationships with commercial entities so that Boston Children's may identify and resolve any conflicts of interest prior to the activity. These disclosures will be provided in the activity materials along with disclosure of any commercial support received for the activity. Additionally, faculty members have been instructed to disclose any limitations of data and unlabeled or investigational uses of products during their presentations.


ACGME Competencies

This course is designed to meet one or more of the following American Board of Medical Specialties/Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education competencies:

  • Patient and Procedural Skills
  • Medical Knowledge
  • Practice-based Learning and Improvement
  • Interpersonal and Communication Skills

IEC Competencies
This course is designed to meet one or more of the following Interprofessional Education Collaborative competencies:
  • Interprofessional Communication