Clinician Lectures and Exam Schedule |
| Time |
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| Day One |
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| 07:00-07:30 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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| 07:30 |
ISCD Introduction and Objectives 每 |
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| General Session-Clinician and Technologist Tracks Together |
| 07:45 |
Overview of Osteoporosis - Definitions, pathophysiology, and epidemiology |
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| 08:45 |
Basic Science of Densitometry & Device Operating Principles 每 |
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Introduction to diagnosis, fracture risk, monitoring, and clinical indications |
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| 09:45 |
Break |
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| 10:00 |
X-Ray Science, Radiation Safety & Quality Assurance每 |
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Available Techniques and Technical Principles of Central Skeletal DXA and Peripheral Densitometry |
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| 11:00 |
Clinician and Technologist Tracks divide |
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Clinician and Technologist Tracks Divide 每 Clinician Track |
| 11:00 |
Clinical Utility of Bone Densitometry - |
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| 12:00 |
Lunch (provided onsite) |
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| 12:45 |
Bone Densitometry for Diagnosis of Osteoporosis每 |
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Strengths and Limitations of WHO criteria, diagnosis in different patient groups, central vs peripheral sites |
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| 13:45 |
Assessment of Fracture Risk每 |
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Expressing risk, integration of clinical risk factors, assessment of risk by central skeletal and peripheral methods |
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| 14:45 |
Break |
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| 15:00 |
Monitoring with Bone Densitometry 每 |
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| 16:00 |
Clinical Management of Osteoporosis - |
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Laboratory evaluation and overview of pharmacologic management Richard Prince
Precision and serial monitoring, determining significance of change and appropriate follow-up interval |
|
| 17:00 |
Faculty Panel Discussion |
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| 17:30 |
Clinician Track Ends |
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| Day Two - Clinician Track |
| 07:30 |
Principles of DXA Scan Interpretation- |
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Patient positioning,proper scan analysis,artifacts,recommendations for interpretation and reporting |
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| 08:30 |
Principles of Reporting DXA Scans- |
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| 09:30 |
Faculty Panel Discussion |
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| 10:00 |
Clinician Certification Examination |
|
| 12:00 |
Examination Period Ends |
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| Technologist Lectures and Exam Schedule |
| Time |
|
|
| Day One |
|
|
| 07:00-07:30 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
|
| 07:30 |
ISCD Introduction and Objectives 每 |
|
| General Session 每 Clinician and Technologist Tracks Together |
| 07:45 |
Overview of Osteoporosis - |
|
| |
Definitions, pathophysiology, and epidemiology |
|
| 08:45 |
Basic Science of Densitometry & Device Operating Principles 每 |
|
| |
Introduction to diagnosis, fracture risk, monitoring, and clinical indications |
|
| 09:45 |
Break |
|
| 10:00 |
X-Ray Science, Radiation Safety & Quality Assurance每 |
|
| |
Available Techniques and Technical Principles of Central Skeletal DXA and Peripheral Densitometry |
|
| 11:00 |
Clinician and Technologist Tracks divide |
|
| 11:45 |
Lunch (provided onsite) |
|
Clinician and Technologist Tracks Divide - Technologist Track |
| 12:30 |
Densitometer QC 每 |
|
| 13:15 |
Data Management in Bone Densitometry |
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| 13:45 |
Role of the Technologist |
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| 14:15 |
Break |
|
| 14:30 |
Densitometric Anatomy |
|
| 15:00 |
Patient Care & Preparation Before Scanning |
|
| 15:30 |
Patient Positioning & Acquisition of Scans |
|
| 16:30 |
Scan Analysis |
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| 17:15 |
Understanding the Results and Interpretation |
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| 18:00 |
Faculty Panel Discussion |
|
| 18:30 |
Technologist Track Ends |
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DAY TWO - Technologist Track |
| 07:30 |
Clinical Management of the Osteoporotic Patient |
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| 08:30 |
Quality Scanning |
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| 09:30 |
Faculty Panel Discussion |
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| 10:00 |
Technologist Certification Examination |
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| 11:00 |
Exam Period Ends |
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The material presented in the ISCD Bone Densitometry Course is educational and does not constitute a medical or professional service. Great effort has been made to assure that the course material is timely and accurate. However, due to the rapidly changing nature of the field, some information provided may be outdated or invalidated by subsequent developments.