Instructions

Date & Location
Wednesday, October 20, 2021, 9:00 AM - Monday, October 13, 2025, 4:00 AM

Target Audience
Specialties - Pediatrics, Physicians

Overview
This episode on Pediatric Hypertension features a heart racing conversation with our guest, Dr. Carissa Baker Smith - a preventive and transplant pediatric cardiologist who serves as the director of the Nemours Preventive Cardiology Program. She currently serves as the chair of the Atherosclerosis Hypertension and Obesity of the Young Subcommittee of the American Heart Association Cardiovascular Disease. You’ll want to take off your white coat and sit with your feet firmly planted for this conversation about pediatric hypertension. We will review screening guidelines for blood pressure, initial work up and eventual treatment of hypertension in kids.





Objectives

Listeners will explain the screening, diagnosis, and management of pediatric hypertension in the outpatient setting. After listening to this episode listeners will… 



  1. Describe how to take an accurate blood pressure in children .
  2. Define pediatric hypertension for children under and over the age 13.
  3. Learn why the use of race in the one liner is problematic.

Registration
There is no registration fee to participate.  Learners must listen to the entire podcast, review resource materials, score at least 66% on the post-test, and complete an activity evaluation in order to receive credit.


 
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Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by The Cribsiders and VCU Health. VCU Health Continuing Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


VCU Health Continuing Education designates this internet enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 medical knowledge MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 1 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.

It is the responsibility of the participant to provide the correct information [ABIM /ABP ID Number and DOB (in MMDD format)] in order to receive MOC credit for participating in a CE Activity. 

Disclaimers
Minimum and maximum numbers for attendance at this event have been established, and we reserve the right to substitute speakers/topics, adjust credit hours, or cancel if necessary.

By attending this event you grant VCU Health Continuing Education the right at the event to record, film, photograph, or capture your likeness in any media and to distribute, broadcast, use, or otherwise disseminate, in perpetuity, such media without any further approval from or any payment to you.  

 

Additional Information

Accommodations
All participants have the right to participate in this continuing education activity without discrimination due to age, race, ethnicity, religion, culture, language, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, sex (sexual orientation, gender identity or expression and pregnancy), protected veteran status, marital status, genetic information, or any other protected characteristics under applicable federal, state, or local law. If you need accommodations to participate in this activity, please contact us at [email protected] for more information. 


Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (1.00 hours), ABP MOC Part 2 (1.00 hours), ABIM MOC Part 2 (1.00 hours)