Community and Continuing Medical Education

Dr. Nele Hollman, Principal Investigator, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia

Title: “Decoding viral RNPs through integrative structural biology”

Host: Dr. Bernd Simon

Family medicine physician Dr. Christopher Kolker will be sharing his journey and advice with us on how to deepen our Catholic faith throughout our medical careers. His talk, titled “The True Joy of Learning,” is meant to relate our current journey through medical and dental school to deepening our relationship with Christ.

Neurosurgery Thursday Residency Curriculum Series

Provided by University of Connecticut School of Medicine Office of Community and Continuing Medical Education and the UConn Health Department of Neurosurgery.

Speaker: Ketan R. Bulsara, MD, MBA

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2026

Time: 6:00am- 8:00am

Location: UCHC/ UConn 5 Munson Road, Basement Conference Room & WebEx Live Virtual

Target Audience: UCHC/UConn Health faculty and affiliated faculty including Neurosurgeons, Primary Care physicians, Advanced Practice providers (APRN’s and PA’s), residents, medical students, and other clinicians involved in the management, care, and treatment of patients with neurosurgical conditions, including disorders of the brain and spine disorders.

WebEx Link: https://uchc.webex.com/meet/Neurosurgery

Learning Objectives: Participants will (be able to):

1. Describe the general management and considerations for intracranial aneurysms, including unruptured aneurysms.
2. Review treatment options and risks associated with familial intracranial aneurysms and subarachnoid hemorrhages.
3. Discuss the management guidelines of cerebrovascular guidelines.

Speaker Disclosure Statement:

Dr. Bulsara in their role as speaker for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. There are no relevant financial relationships listed for this individual to be mitigated.

Dr. Bulsara will not be discussing the off-labeled, or investigational use of any product or device.

Dr. Bulsara has not used AI tools in the preparation of this session.

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 2 AMA PRA Category 2 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.

Activity Director Disclosure Statement:

Dr. Bulsara, as the activity director, for this educational event, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. There are no relevant financial relationships listed for this individual to be mitigated.

Planning Committee Disclosure Statement:

Dr. Bulsara, and Natasha Judge, as member(s) of the planning committee, for this educational event, has/have no relevant financial relationship(s) with any ineligible companies that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this presentation that need to be disclosed. There are no relevant financial relationships listed for this individual to be mitigated.

Commercial Support Statement:

This CME activity has no commercial support associated with it.

Evaluations: Participants are required to complete an evaluation to obtain CME Credits. This CME activity uses an electronic evaluation survey, ETHOS. An email from the activity admin, Natasha Judge, njudge@uchc.edu with instruction will be sent to the participants. Please complete the evaluation within 10 business days of receiving the email. If you do not receive an email within the 5 business days of this activity, please reach directly out to the activity admin. All evaluations must be completed within 10 business of receiving the email evaluation assignment.

Medical Education Grand Rounds & Journal Club Series

This presentation explores a novel assessment framework for short-answer responses that combines evaluation of medical knowledge with analysis of communication and reasoning skills. Attendees will discover how rubric-guided assessment can enhance feedback, identify areas of learner difficulty, and strengthen educational support strategies.

Learners will (be able to):
1. Describe how principles adapted from Grice’s Maxims can be applied to short-answer assessment in medical education.
2. Differentiate the five domains of the proposed rubric: prompt alignment, content accuracy, causal linking, precision, and relevance.
3. Interpret preliminary longitudinal patterns in short-answer performance across preclinical curricular blocks.
4. Identify opportunities to use rubric-guided feedback and early academic support to improve students’ reasoning, and readiness for clinical skills communication.

Target Audience: Faculty, staff, and trainees at the UConn Health, School of Medicine.

Session Learning Objectives:  Participants will (be able to):
1.  List common sleep problems for youth with ADHD
2.  Describe what parents want most out of sleep treatments for ADHD
3.  Discuss what treatments are available to youth with ADHD and sleep difficulties, and how well they work
CME approval is pending