June Grand Rounds: Reproductive Health Mindset During a Pandemic
What impact has, or could COVID-19 have, on your practice and patients? What adjustments have you made in your practice and how has your life been impacted?
Learning Objectives:
1. Review current medical knowledge regarding the effects of COVID-19 on the reproductive system (including genitourinary symptoms, pregnancy outcome by gestational age at transmission and maternal-fetal transmission rates).
2. Discuss fertility patient mental health, adjustments in intention to conceive and menstrual cycle variation (largely related to stress) during the pandemic.
3. Explore the mental health, work and life adjustments of fertility medical professionals during the pandemic.
4. Review results from a survey of RRM professionals on how the pandemic has affected their practice and patients.
Grand rounds is held monthly for health care professionals as part of RRM's Educational Webinar Series. Presentations aim to improve the clinician's foundational knowledge as well as highlight and encourage research and new methods in the area of Restorative Reproductive Medicine. These sessions should enhance the efficiency, effectiveness and quality of healthcare delivery, and in turn lead to improved patient outcomes.
Amie Holmes, MD, OBGYN
Dr. Holmes is an Obstetrician and Gynecologist who completed a fellowship in Medical and Surgical NaProTechnology at the Pope Paul VI Institute and Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska.
Originally from Torrance, California, Dr. Holmes completed a Bachelors of Science in Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics and a Minor in Spanish at the University of California Los Angeles. She then obtained a Medical Degree at the Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health. She completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at West Penn Allegheny Health System in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas.
Dr. Holmes also worked in Urgent Care Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Omaha, Nebraska and has international medical experience in Costa Rica and Cuba. In addition she is also a Health and Wellness Coach completing training through The Life Coach School and a Organic Conceptions program partner.
She resides with her husband, Dr. Jonathan Holmes (a general surgeon) and their six children in Fresno, California. They will be adding another baby to their family this March.
Dr. Holmes' practice is located in Clovis, California.
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. When applying for the AMA PRA, Prescribed credit earned must be reported as Prescribed credit, not as Category 1.
Members of the College of Family Physicians of Canada are eligible to receive 1.0 Certified or Non-Certified Mainpro+ credits for participation in this activity due to reciprocal agreement with the American Academy of Family Physicians.
The Qatar Council for Health Practitioners (QCHP) accepts American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Prescribed credit as equivalent to Category 1 – Accredited Group Learning Activities and Category 3 – Accredited Assessment Activities. When reporting AAFP Prescribed credit to the QCHP, AAFP Prescribed credit earned must be reported as AAFP Prescribed Credit equivalent to Category (1 or 3).
AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the following organizations. Please contact them directly about how participants should report the credit they earned.
- American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA)
- National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
- American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
- American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Board (AANPCB)
- American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA)
- American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)
- American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM)
- American Board of Preventative Medicine (ABPM)
- American Board of Urology (ABU)
Webinar recordings and slides are posted to iirrm.org for those that can't attend, however AAFP Prescribed Credit and AMA PRA Category 1 credits are only available for lecture webcasts viewed live, in real time.