Apr 8 2025

To Pee or Not To Pee: The Clinical Utility of Urine Drug Screens in the ED

RSS: Resident Seminar Series 2024-2025

April 8, 2025

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM America/Chicago

Location

Zoom only

Resident Seminar Zoom Link

https://go.uic.edu/ResidentSeminarZoomLink

Cost

Free

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Pharmacy Continuing Education Statement: The UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This activity has been assigned ACPE Universal Activity Number 0016-0000-24-088-L01-P, for 1.0 contact hours (0.1 CEUs). Attendance at the entire knowledge-based activity, completion of the evaluation, and submission of NABP eProfile ID and MMDD are prerequisites for receiving continuing pharmacy education credit(s). All ACPE credit awarded to participants must be uploaded to CPE Monitor ™ within 30 days of the activity date, so pharmacists are required to provide their e-Profile ID and date of birth (MMDD) at the time of the activity. Please contact pharmce@uic.edu if you do not see activity information listed within 30 days. For more information and to set up your e-Profile visit: www.MyCPEmonitor.net.

 

Please join us for our next Pharmacy Resident Seminar presentation of the Spring semester on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

Speaker: Heather Zimmerman, PharmD

Speaker Title: PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident - Rockford

Type of Activity: Knowledge-based

Target Audience: Pharmacists

Time: Tuesday, April 8, 2025,  12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

Fees: There is no charge for attending this activity

Location: Zoom

Zoom Meeting Information:

OR

  • Join by phone: 1-312-626-6799 (Chicago)
    Meeting ID: 882 7458 6898
    Passcode: 85658814

Series Learning Objectives:

  • Describe a current controversy in pharmacy clinical practice
  • Discuss the current literature around the controversy, strengths, and weaknesses of methodology

Seminar Learning Objectives:  

  • Describe the characteristics and limitations of the urine drug screen.
  • Identify common causes of false positive drug screen results.
  • List toxicological agents of interest that the urine drug screen does not identify.

Disclosure: The speaker, planning committee members, and reviewers who contributed to this activity have no relevant conflicts of interest to disclose.

Contact

Office of Continuing Education and Meeting Services
pharmce@uic.edu

Date posted

Jan 27, 2025

Date updated

Mar 4, 2025

Speakers

Heather Zimmerman, PharmD | PGY2 Emergency Medicine Pharmacy Resident - Rockford | UIC Retzky College of Pharmacy