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NPI’s Office Hysteroscopy and Sterilization course is an intensive and comprehensive introductory course focused on performing diagnostic/operative hysteroscopy in the office setting. The course is targeted towards the novice or those physicians familiar with diagnostic hysteroscopy who wish to enhance their basic hysteroscopy skills to incorporate operative procedures (e.g., permanent tubal sterilization) into their practice armamentarium. This how-to course offers practice pearls and extensive hands-on experience utilizing both inanimate and virtual reality computer simulators to duplicate a variety of common clinical scenarios the participant will encounter while performing office hysteroscopy. The program provides a level of practical knowledge and dexterity to perform office hysteroscopy with a great deal of safety.
Sixty-four percent of past attendees of NPI’s Office Hysteroscopy and Sterilization course report the ability and desire to immediately apply what they learned in the course. Another 36 percent reported a gradual implementation. That means there is a 100-percent chance your practice can be more profitable!
So what are you waiting for? Office Hysteroscopy and Sterilization is only available twice a year, including an upcoming course this October in Las Vegas, Nev., and next February in Long Beach, Calif. Register a month in advance so you can take advantage of the discounted $1,350 registration fee!
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The DVD of the Month for September is What Patients Need to Know About Vasectomy. Vasectomy is the preferred method of permanent sterilization when a couple has decided to limit their future childbearing and it is important that they make an informed decision for this elective procedure. This DVD reviews, in layman’s terms, who should have a vasectomy, the basic technique, preparation, complications, and after care. It saves a tremendous amount of physician time and not only assures that all the information has been conveyed, but also provides excellent medicolegal documentation that the patient had true informed consent. It allows the clinician to focus on pertinent questions rather than repeating the same story repeatedly. What Patients Need to Know About Vasectomy is on sale this September for $71.95, a 10-percent discount!
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If you’re interested in learning more about office sterilization but can’t get the time off to attend a course, consider our No-Scalpel Vasectomy Model and the Learning No-Scalpel Vasectomy: A Guide for Clinicians DVD.
NPI Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Stephen Grochmal
3 questions with NPI’s Office Hysteroscopy and Sterilization course instructor
Q. Explain your time with NPI and how you’ve watched the company evolve.
A: I have been associated with NPI as a faculty member since 2003, and have been familiar with the NPI concept and the program courses offered since about 1989. At that time, as director of the New Jersey Laser Institute (NJLI), I provided a similarly structured educational venue platform for OB-GYNS, general surgeons, and urologists wanting to learn and incorporate into their practices endoscopic, laparoscopic, and hysteroscopic techniques. NPI offered many diverse courses but no surgical-based gynecologic procedures. This eventually led to my participation as faculty to develop and teach these new course offerings. Since that time, NPI has evolved into an organization with a “finger on the pulse” for novel, apropos medical procedures, bringing these extremely current and state-of-the-science procedures to its attendees.
Q. What is your favorite NPI moment?
A: It was the very first course that I taught for NPI. Because of an extreme snowstorm and flight delays, I arrived at 3 p.m. for the course that should have started at 8 a.m. To my surprise, all 12 attendees waited for my arrival and we discussed and practiced hysteroscopic techniques until 11 p.m. that night! Even better: all 12 physicians went back to their respective practices and began to perform hysteroscopic procedures and 97 percent of them still perform diagnostic and advanced hysteroscopic procedures to this very day. We all still stay in touch and a few have even attended our more recent advanced courses. That to me is memorable; more so, extremely gratifying.
Q. Where do you think the future of procedures in the primary care setting is headed?
A: I think the future of procedures in the primary care setting is brilliant! Primary care physicians are in a unique position to provide simple, office-based gynecologic procedures to their female patient population, many of whom prefer to see their primary care physician over a gynecologist. Procedures like Mirena insertion, contraceptive implants, hysteroscopic sterilization, annual hysteroscopic evaluation of postmenopausal women with visually directed endometrial biopsy, and endometrial ablation procedures to treat medically unresponsive heavy uterine bleeding are just a few examples. Many gynecologists do not perform these office-based procedures; less than 40 percent of my 43,000 OB-GYN colleagues perform hysteroscopy in the hospital setting while only 11 percent perform this procedure in their office. If they don’t do it, someone should, and that someone is YOU!
Stephen A. Grochmal, M.D., is an internationally recognized, minimally invasive gynecologic surgeon who has championed the concept of in-office surgical procedures to gynecologists and other surgical specialists for more than 25 years. After completing his obstetrics/gynecology residency and subspecialty fellowship at Rutgers University, he further sub-specialized with a fellowship in advanced pelviscopic gynecologic and urogynecologic surgery.
Dr. Grochmal has been an invited guest lecturer in the U.S and internationally for more than 20 years and was a visiting professor of endoscopic surgery for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in London between 1990 and 1995. Dr. Grochmal has published numerous scientific articles, textbooks and textbook chapters, and educational videos. He holds medical device patents, and several instrument designs and endoscopic video applications are credited to his name.
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