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Blood Disorders Day 2021 Needs Assessment

The Blood Disorders Day Planning Committee wants your help in designing the curriculum for the 2021 Blood Disorders Day.

COVID-19 threw a spanner into our 2020 plans for a May 01 Blood Disorders Day. We were able to deliver part of our planned BDD curriculum in the form of two excellent and well-attended lunch-hour “Fractionated BDD” sessions this past May.  The BDD Planning Committee is still keen to offer you the remaining content we had originally planned for Blood Disorders Day 2020; plus a few new topics – of your choosing. While still committed to providing ongoing blood disorder-related education, we recognize the changing landscape of CME during COVID times and want to ensure our efforts to deliver education will meet the needs of our audience.

Please respond to this brief survey to help us plan the next Blood Disorders Day/Series.
1.If public health regulations permit large (>100 persons) gatherings, would you prefer to attend:
2.If you were to attend a one-day event that includes the options of in-person and virtual attendance, and assuming both options carry the same registration fee, would you attend in-person or virtually?
3.Of the following topics, which education sessions would be the most important for you?
Not important
Slightly important
Important
Very important
MGUS
Multiple Myeloma
Diagnosis and management of thrombosis
Anemia & Iron overload
The critical CBC: when and how to refer
Indications for blood and platelet transfusions
 Bridging anticoagulant and NOACs
Sickle cell
Diagnosing and treating B12 deficiency
Updates in CLL
A pragmatic approach to an elevated LDH
Approach to pancytopenia
What to do with patients with high hemoglobin concentration
Approach to hyperferritinemia
Work up of suspected bleeding disorders
Thrombocytopenia
Myelodysplastic syndromes
Hematologic consequences of pregnancy
Overview of lymphoma
Hematologic presentations, consequences and therapeutic targets in COVID-19
Primary care of patients following stem cell transplant
Diagnosis and initial management of hemolytic anemia
When to panic! Wildly abnormal CBC findings and how to react
Chronic care of patients with thalassemia
Pediatric leukemia - what a primary health professional needs to know
Marrow failure
When to suspect and how to work up immunodeficiencies
Outpatient management of Hemophilia and Von Willebrand's disease