Course Description

Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
The 47th Annual USC Weil Symposium on Critical Care and
Emergency Medicine

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The University of Southern California's 47th Annual Weil Symposium on Critical Care and Emergency Medicine continues a tradition of four days of intensive didactic teaching preceded by one-day optional pre-courses on practical skills and techniques for management of the acutely life-threatened patient. The program provides a state-of-the-art update to allow health care professionals to keep pace with rapid changes in the knowledge base, advances in technology, and updated guidelines for management, and addresses administrative and ethical strategies with which to optimize care of the critically ill and injured patient. As the first and still the largest university postgraduate course on acute care taught by internationally renowned experts, our focus is on clinical management of the life-threatened patient at the bedside. The majority of our registrants return yearly or on alternate years. The large menu of presentations is directed to the practices of critical care specialists, emergency physicians, hospitalists, internists, anesthesiologists, cardiologists, pulmonary physicians, infectious disease specialists, nephrologists, traumatologists and general surgeons as well as primary care providers in smaller communities.