Ovarian Stimulation
Welcome to this course on Ovarian Stimulation produced by the IFFS Academy.
The course Directors, Dr Bart Fauser and Dr Basil Tarlatzis, have brought together a faculty of international experts in this field who deliver a state of the art programme covering all aspects of ovarian stimulation.
Aim of the course
The aim of this course is to provide the student with comprehensive information on ovarian stimulation.
On successful completion of this course the student will have acquired the knowledge to enable them to develop their clinical practice in the ovarian stimulation aspects of infertility and assisted conception management.
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Educational Objectives
The educational objectives are:
- To refresh the basic physiology and endocrinology of ovulation
- To learn the pharmaco-therapeutics of the drugs commonly used in ovarian stimulation
- To understand the management of anovulatory infertility and ovulation induction
- To discuss the process of ovarian stimulation used assisted conception including IVF/ICSI
- To learn about the use of ovarian stimulation in special infertility and assisted conception circumstances
- To discuss the risks, obstetric outcomes and economics of ovarian stimulation
Suitability
The course content is suitable for the following:
- Medical practitioners in ob/gyn postgraduate training
- Specialists training in reproductive medicine
- Healthcare practitioners and scientists working in infertility practice
- Other physicians working with in reproductive endocrinology and infertility
- Medical students in their ob/gyn rotation and interested to develop their knowledge in this area.
Eligibility
The prerequisite for undertaking this course is a graduate course in medicine or a clinical science.
Access
Access is limited to six months for the time of registration. Progress through each module of the course is permitted following satisfactory completion of the knowledge test (MCQ) at the end of each module. The participant may progress through the content in each module at their own pace at any time.
Schedule and required time
There are a minimum of 20 hours continuous learning in this course. Participants should take no more than 3 months of discontinuous activity to complete this course.
Following registration, participants must access the modules in sequence beginning with the first module and complete successfully the assessment at the end of each module before progressing to the next.
Course assessment
An on-line MCQ test comprising 20 five-part multiple choice questions drawn from material covered in the Modules is presented at the conclusion of each module. A pass mark of 70% is required to progress to the following module. At the conclusion of the course a final MCQ assessment is presented encompassing 30 five part multiple choice questions. A pass mark of 70% is required in this final assessment to complete the course to the standard required.
Certification
After completing the final assessment and the feedback questionnaire a certificate will be issued by the IFFS.
The four modules of this course have been submitted for accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. The EACCME is an institution of the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS). Only those e-learning materials that are displayed on the UEMS-EACCME website have formally been accredited. Subject to this accreditation, medical specialists can claim CME credits for the time they have spent in this educational activity. The content in this course amounts to a minimum of 20 CME scredits.
Through an agreement between the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA), physicians may convert EACCME credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM.
Information on the process to convert EACCME credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications
Speakers:
Bart Fauser, Christos Venetis, Richard Kennedy, Robert Norman, Joop Laven, Antonio Pellicer, Efstratios Kolibianakis, Juan Garcia Velasco, Christoph Blockeel, Willen Verpoest, Ernesto Bosch, Nikolaon Polyzos, Baris Ata, Georg Griesinger, Anja Pinborg, Frank Broekmans, George Lainas, Valerie Peddie
