Diagnostic Excellence (DEX) 2024

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LIVE

Sunday, October 13, 2024, 7:30 AM - Monday, October 14, 2024, 7:30 PM CST, Wilf Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN

The goal of the Diagnostic Excellence 2024 meeting (DEX24) is to bring together experts, learners, early career professionals, researchers, educators and patients to advance diagnostic excellence through scientific presentations, community building, and mutual goal setting.

This meeting for the community is dedicated to improving diagnosis in health care. These proceedings:

• Will commence with presentations reviewing the trajectory of efforts to promote diagnostic excellence and a state-of-the-science review and discussion.
• Present and discuss research advances and ongoing studies through both open discussions and presentations of oral abstracts and posters.
• Will include sessions focused on measurement and assessment of progress in improving diagnosis.
• Will include designated sessions to present advances in clinical reasoning, how to teach these skills and how to optimize clinical reasoning in practice, designed with medical educators in mind.

A highlight throughout will be considerations of how AI, ‘the new kid on the block’ can be used to promote diagnostic excellence in research, education, and practice.

Contact
For questions, please contact [email protected].

View a PDF of the agenda here.

View CE information, including how to complete your evaluation and claim your CE credits here.

Abstract Submissions-CLOSED
The DEX24 planning team is grateful for the fantastic response and impressive abstract submissions. We look forward to the oral presentations and poster session at the meeting! 

1. Describe the current state of diagnostic safety in healthcare, and the progress that has been made over the past decade
2. List common pitfalls in clinical reasoning
3. Identify and use recently-developed tools, surveys, and evaluation instruments that can be used to measure diagnostic performance and outcomes
4. Describe already-available AI tools to assist in differential diagnosis

Registration Rates

Health Care Professional or Health Researcher: $250

Trainee: $100

Patient/Patient Advocate: $0

Registration closes at midnight CT on October 2, 2024. On-site registration will not be available.

Cancellation Policy

In the event you need to cancel your registration, the registration fee, less a $50 administrative fee, will be refunded if you notify us by 4:30 p.m. Central Time two weeks prior to the start of the conference. No refunds will be made after this date.

Registration is closed.

Credit Designation Statements

American Medical Association (AMA)
The University of Minnesota, Interprofessional Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
This activity is awarded up to 11.75 ANCC contact hours.

Other Healthcare Professionals
Other healthcare professionals who participate in this CE activity may submit their certificate of participation to their appropriate accrediting organizations or state boards for consideration of credit. The participant is responsible for determining whether this activity meets the requirements for acceptable continuing education.

Note that this credit count reflects attendance at one of the concurrent workshops, not the oral abstracts session, on Sunday, October 13th. The oral abstracts session does not offer CE credits.

Wilf Family Center Auditorium
University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital
2450 Riverside Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55455

(View the campus map of the Wilf Family Center.)

Transportation

From the Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis, below are a few options for getting to the Wilf Family Center, which is ~1.5 miles away:

Rideshare (~7 minutes): We are pleased to offer discounted rides via the rideshare app Lyft until the event fund hits its limit. Use this link to automatically apply the discount if you have an existing account, or type the code DEX2024MSP in the Lyft Pass section of the "Payment" tab in the app menu.

Walk (~34 minutes): Want to get some steps in? Take this picturesque path over the Mississippi River and through the UMN campus.

Campus Transit (~20-30 minutes): UMN offers numerous publicly available transportation options. Learn more about the routes here.

Public Transportation (~17 minutes): Open to traveling like a local? You can hop on the #2 bus (Franklin Av/To Hennepin) close to the hotel.

Weather

Be sure to pack layers! You can expect mostly clear skies with lows in the 40s/50s and highs in the 70s.

Hotel Accommodations

Book a room at the Graduate Minneapolis online or by phone at 612-379-8888. Request the UM Diagnostic Excellence 2024 room block and book by September 21 to receive the discounted rate. 

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

University of Minnesota Continuing Professional Development adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education and has policies in place to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of its educational activities. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible entities; individuals who fail to complete the disclosure in advance of the course are not eligible to be involved in this course. Specific disclosure information will be shared with learners prior to the start of the course. All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.