Loop Electrosurgical Excision Procedure (LEEP)
This course best serves those licensed physicians and advanced practice clinicians who have an intermediate to advanced level of medical knowledge and colposcopic practice. It is expected that participants are interested in learning LEEP to offer a wider range of treatment to the women in their communities. Participants will have either taken a basic colposcopy course or completed a colposcopy rotation in residency or training and desire more in-depth learning about LEEP. After successfully completing this course, since it will not prepare learners for independent practice, participants are expected to participate in hands-on mentored performance training as required for credentialing in new procedures by their home institutions. Participants will likely be those who have a sufficient patient volume to ensure that LEEP skills, once mastered, will be maintained.
Learning Objectives:
- Apply the physics and electrosurgical principles of loop excision, especially as they relate to equipment safety;
- Implement the criteria for appropriate triage of women to LEEP;
- Identify the equipment and supplies needed to perform LEEP;
- Recognize potential complications—both immediate and delayed—and how to manage them;
- Explain the follow-up of women after LEEP;
- Perform loop excision on inanimate models with sufficient skill to perform procedures under mentorship but not independently;
- Assess practice populations to identify adolescent, middle reproductive age, and postmenopausal women appropriate for LEEP treatment;
- Adopt standardized guidelines on the treatment of women with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia;
- Analyze practice experience to perform improvement activities; and
- Advocate for quality patient care and assist patients through system complexities.
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
ACCME Accreditation
ASCCP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM
ASCCP designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
COI Disclosures
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