CME: Capacity Evaluations in the General Medical Hospital
| Date Posted: 3/17/2016
Continuing Medical Education
March 31, 2016
Capacity Evaluations in the General Medical Hospital
Dinner at 5:45 p.m. Program to follow at 6:15 p.m.
Conference Center
FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Speaker
Gary J. Gala, M.D., FACS
Dr. Gala earned his Doctor of Medicine from Brown-Dartmouth University Medical Program at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He completed a Fellowship in Senior Trauma (R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Baltimore, Maryland), Surgical Critical Care (University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland), and General Surgery (University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland). Board certified in Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychiatry and General Surgery, Dr. Gala is professionally associated with the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Objectives
At the completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
- Examine decisional capacity evaluations
- Apply the elements of a decisional capacity evaluation
- Describe order of surrogates in North Carolina
Professional Practice Gap to be filled: Limited confidence in performing capacity evaluations
