This webinar is designed to describe the intraoperative setup involved for performing robotic spine surgery and strategies to maximize efficiency.

This webinar will address the growing problem of physician burnout, which has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to recent data. The consequences of burnout impact both the individual physician as well as the health care system. The recognition of burnout as a serious individual and institutional challenge is leading to an increased need to design, implement, and evaluate systems that promote well-being and that makes strides to change the undeserved stigma associated with seeking help for burnout. In this webinar, recognized leaders discuss and present strategies to mitigate these risk factors in their own lives or in the organization that they represent.

A sea of change in health care is constraining physician access. Mid-level and Allied Health providers are increasingly called upon to serve as first-point and follow-up spine subspecialty evaluators. The effective evaluation and triage of spine patients can be complex and requires nuanced examination and differential diagnostic skills intrinsic to care planning. Effective treatment and rehabilitation and associated psychosocial, med-legal, occupational, disability, pain management and co-morbid health issues must also be considered.

Technology advancements in imaging, interprofessional communication and medical records have become valuable tools to time-challenged clinicians managing high patient volume and related clinical responsibilities. Potentially compromised in this new health care milieu are the time honored fundamentals of hands-on evaluation and the interpersonal and communication skills that have historically defined excellence in patient care. There is increasing recognition that no technology is of greater importance than real-time, face-to-face evaluation as the basis for clinical decision-making, including appropriate diagnostic work-up and value-based care planning.

Spine Journal reviewers make important contributions to spine science for the benefit of patients and practitioners worldwide. TSJ has rapidly become the world's leading scientific spine publication thanks to superior efforts of authors, reviewers and editors. As a result, submissions to The Spine Journal are at an all-time high and so is demand for high quality primary manuscript reviews.

To support TSJ reviewers whose time is valuable and often scarce, Spine Journal Editors provide helpful and timesaving advice on how to critique manuscripts based on specific criteria. They discuss current peer-reviewer guidelines for TSJ and scientific journals, suggest helpful resources, and provide examples of best ways to communicate constructive comments and recommendations to authors and editors.

This online course illustrates the importance of medical professionalism and the concept of conflict of interest (COI) in both the practice and business of medicine. The financial relationships among medical device makers, physicians, educators and professional medical associations (PMAs) are drawing increasing scrutiny from government agencies, the press, and patients. Physicians need to know how and why this affects them and what is on the horizon with regard to relationships with industry.

This course informs the learner about the state of the art NASS policies and procedures with respect to disclosure and divestment by leadership, educators, researchers and advocates. The faculty defines medical professionalism and conflict of interest (COI). The neuropsychosocial mechanisms underlying the power of COIs to produce influence and bias are demonstrated. Legal and regulatory considerations and their potential implications are discussed. Some of the controversies surrounding physician ownership of ancillary services are presented.

Finally, faculty address the very thorny issues of medical decision making in the context of limited resources and treating the patient’s best interests while simultaneously considering societal factors. The faculty has extensive knowledge and experience dealing with these issues on both the local and national levels, and the topics are presented in an easy-to-follow, conversational format.

As a NASS member, you can watch Nothing to Hide: Professionalism and Disclosure for the Spine Care Provider free of charge and receive 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.

The past few years have brought about dramatic changes in the delivery of health care. Increasing pressure from government regulators, greater transparency of quality, along with an increasing engagement by the patient, has led many health care organizations to fundamentally transform their business models.

Preparing for this future will require individual providers to not only understand future health policy changes; it will require that providers understand the techniques of change management. This recorded webinar is intended for providers who are looking to transform and lead change within their health care organization. Practitioners discuss real-world examples of how they are preparing for the future of health care.

This recorded webinar provides participants with a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to the degenerative cervical spine. The activity is designed for all spinal health care providers. Faculty review the anatomy and biomechanics of the cervical spine, clinical examination, common cervical degenerative pathologies and their management and postoperative care.

Although the ability to evaluate MRI studies is critical to the delivery of effective spine care, most spine specialists learn this skill in an informal fashion during training and in clinical practice. As a result, we may not have an understanding of the science and physics behind MR imaging and the various pulse sequences that are available for obtaining the scans. Many of us prefer to read our patients’ MR imaging studies ourselves rather than rely solely on the “official” radiologist’s report. We learn to make preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative decisions based on those readings. However, unlike radiologists who are trained to evaluate MRI studies in a systematic fashion, we may be more likely to evaluate the images in a less organized manner and to rely on our anatomic expertise and experience, which may not be the most effective method.

This recorded webinar series will help teach spine specialists how to systematically evaluate and interpret MR imaging studies of the spine. Although there are many courses that focus on MR imaging of the spine, this series is distinctive in that it is given by spine surgeons and radiologists specifically for spine specialists. As such, it is more clinically oriented than other educational opportunities. It also provides an excellent reference for radiologists and others such as physical medicine and rehabilitation clinicians, rheumatology physicians, and medical musculoskeletal care specialists who evaluate MR images of the spine and who would like to gain a better appreciation of the associated clinical aspects.

This recorded webinar series addresses important and timely topics that spine surgeons face in daily practice. As our healthcare systems rapidly change before our eyes, practitioners must be made aware of the most recent evidence-based literature regarding complication prevention, management strategies, and cost-effective decision-making. These talks will provide up-to-date information regarding common issues that will be of interest to all spine care specialists.

This recorded webinar series addresses important and timely topics that spine surgeons face in daily practice. As our healthcare systems rapidly change before our eyes, practitioners must be made aware of the most recent evidence-based literature regarding complication prevention, management strategies, and cost-effective decision-making. These talks will provide up-to-date information regarding common issues that will be of interest to all spine care specialists.

Although the ability to evaluate MRI studies is critical to the delivery of effective spine care, most spine specialists learn this skill in an informal fashion during training and in clinical practice. As a result, we may not have an understanding of the science and physics behind MR imaging and the various pulse sequences that are available for obtaining the scans. Many of us prefer to read our patients’ MR imaging studies ourselves rather than rely solely on the “official” radiologist’s report. We learn to make preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative decisions based on those readings. However, unlike radiologists who are trained to evaluate MRI studies in a systematic fashion, we may be more likely to evaluate the images in a less organized manner and to rely on our anatomic expertise and experience, which may not be the most effective method.

This recorded webinar series will help teach spine specialists how to systematically evaluate and interpret MR imaging studies of the spine. Although there are many courses that focus on MR imaging of the spine, this series is distinctive in that it is given by spine surgeons and radiologists specifically for spine specialists. As such, it is more clinically oriented than other educational opportunities. It also provides an excellent reference for radiologists and others such as physical medicine and rehabilitation clinicians, rheumatology physicians, and medical musculoskeletal care specialists who evaluate MR images of the spine and who would like to gain a better appreciation of the associated clinical aspects.