Continuing Medical Education

LSU School of Medicine-New Orleans
Office of Medical Education
2020 Gravier Street, Ste. 600
New Orleans, LA 70112
http://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/medical_education/cme/

The LSUSOM-NO Continuing Medical Education (CME) office provides high-quality, evidence-based, lifelong learning for physicians in the core competencies of the profession and their ongoing pursuit of excellence. CME activities include live conferences featuring symposia, seminars, and lectures, regularly-scheduled series, patient simulators and bio skills workshops. Other formats such as distance learning courses and enduring materials via CD-ROM, audio, video and Web-based learning technologies are offered by the CME office.

The Office of Continuing Medical Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to award AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ to physicians.

Institutional Affiliations

Medical students, interns, residents, and fellows undergo some of their education and training at several hospitals located throughout the State of Louisiana. The following is a brief description of some of these institutions.

BATON ROUGE GENERAL HOSPITAL, Baton Rouge, La. This large acute care general community hospital has rotations for residency programs with LSU Emergency Medicine as well as selective experiences in surgery, family medicine, and several medical subspecialties.

CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL OF NEW ORLEANS, New Orleans, La., is a 153-bed community general hospital for children, which combines traditional acute-care and chronic diseases and rehabilitation pediatrics and a large neonatal intensive care unit. All LSU Pediatric services and subspecialties are located at Children’s Hospital. All pediatric faculty members maintain active patient services at the hospital, and a faculty member is always assigned as an attending physician. Resident teaching in the pediatrics areas of Anesthesiology, Surgery, Otolaryngology, Dermatology, Pathology, Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery and Neurosurgery occur at this location Assignment to Children’s Hospital has proven to be a valuable learning experience for both medical students and pediatric residents.

OUR LADY OF THE LAKE MEDICAL CENTER, Baton Rouge, La., 75 miles northwest of New Orleans is a privately owned not for profit hospital.  It provides in-patient, out-patient and emergency care to an urban and rural patient population of approximately 500,000. Full time faculty members of the School of Medicine are based at this hospital and offer teaching for students and residents in: General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Otolaryngology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Dermatology, Anesthesia, Internal Medicine, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry and Emergency Medicine. LSU School of Medicine-New Orleans sponsors residency programs in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Obstetrics-Gynecology, and Psychiatry in Baton Rouge.

UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER NEW ORLEANS, home of the Rev. Avery C. Alexander Academic Research Hospital, continues the legacy of Charity Hospital dating back nearly 300 years. This is the site where the majority of students obtain their clinical education. The state-of-the-art, facility opened in August 2015. As a public-private partnership with the State, UMCNO is Louisiana’s largest training center for future healthcare professionals and conducts a broad spectrum of teaching programs for medical students, residents, and fellows. The hospital features three patient towers with 446-acute care beds. All of LSU School of Medicine New Orleans based residency and fellowship programs and students rotate through this major teaching facility.

OCHSNER MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS, on Jefferson, Highway is a large, modern multidisciplinary institution with a number of freestanding training programs. This private facility offers several teaching programs for Junior and Senior students and residents from LSU in addition to their own residencies. Examples include residency programs with LSU in psychiatry and ophthalmology and training rotations in neurology, pathology, dermatology, physical medicine, and rehabilitation and several medical subspecialties.