CAPACon is CAPA's annual Southern California conference for general medicine and specialty PAs. Held during PA Week, October 3-6, 2024 at the Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport, this 3.5-day conference will encompass clinical lectures and hands-on workshops for a total of 50 possible Category 1 CME credits! 

Attendees can earn up to 19 CME credits in-person and will have the entire digital library of lectures available online after the conference to earn the remaining possible number of credits.

Conference Registration Fees

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

*Early bird pricing is available through Friday, August 2, 2024.
**Early bird pricing is not available for students.

CAPACon's lecture tracks in general medicine and professional practice are tailored not only to enhance your clinical expertise but also to equip you with the necessary skills for navigating the business aspects of medical practice.

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Professional Practice Track Topics include

• Starting your own business
• You're taking my license? How to respond to a PAB investigation
• Credentialing
• SB 697
• Practice Ownership
• Is Academics for You? Getting into the PA Program Faculty
• How to get into an administrative role
• Preceptors
• Negotiating and determining professional value

General Medicine Track Lectures include

• Type 2 Diabetes & Weight Management
• Navigating Through Common Thyroid Disorders
• Gynocology during menopause
• Infectious diseases: deep space infection
• ID Literature review
• Strokes
• Addiction Medicine
• Antibiotic Stewardship
• When you should and shouldn’t send a patient to the ER
• Aesthetic Medicine
• Boost Patient Safety and Provider Well-being by Enhancing Psychological Safety
• Skin Cancer
• Steroid overuse
• Pediatric ophthalmology
• ADHD
• Medical Abortion

Techniques workshops:

• Ultrasound Basics
• FAST Exam
• Mastering Musculoskeletal Injections
• Manual Vacuum Aspiration for Induced Abortion
• BLUEs CLUEs Ultrasound
• Elevating Suturing Basics

Please note, that speakers, workshops, and lectures are subject to change without notice.

Ultrasound Basics

The average PA often has limited to no knowledge of ultrasound and can better utilize it for the benefit of their patients. Ultrasound can help direct workup or even completely change the management in the acute care setting. PAs attending this workshop will understand the basic functions of the ultrasound machine and perform various exams. 

Mastering Musculoskeletal Injections

Mastering Musculoskeletal Injections is a hands-on workshop dedicated to ensuring PAs feel more comfortable providing and array or musculoskeletal injections. Orthopedic pain due to acute injury or overuse is very common, and treatment of these injuries if delayed can lead to ongoing pain, poor quality of life and worse outcomes for the patient.  PAs in multiple specialties benefit when they have confidence in managing common orthopedic injuries. 

BLUEs CLUEs Ultrasound

The BLUEs CLUEs Ultrasound is a hands-on workshop dedicated to following the BLUEs CLUEs lecture and giving participants the opportunity to practice. Attendees will obtain an adequate image of the lung sliding and “A-lines,” as well as obtain images of the “curtain sign.” After attending this workshop, you will be able to correctly identify the anterior mitral valve leaflet in PLAX and determine if ejection fraction is normal, as well as the inferior vena cava and identify changed in respiration.  

FAST Exam

Focused Assessment With Sonography in Trauma (FAST) is an ultrasound protocol developed to assess for hemoperitoneum and hemopericardium. The sensitivity of FAST has been measured between 85 and 96%, and specificity greater than 98%. In hypotensive trauma patients, sensitivity has approached 100%. FAST can be performed by experienced personnel in less than 5 minutes, and its use has been shown to decrease the time to surgical intervention, the patient length of stay, and the need for computed tomography (CT) and diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL). It is estimated that over 96% of level 1 trauma centers incorporate FAST into their trauma algorithms

Manual Vacuum Aspiration for Induced Abortion

Post-Dobbs, access to reproductive health care, including procedural abortion, has been limited despite the fact that 1 in 4 women will have an abortion in their lifetime. Being able to provide care in a patient's own community (or where care is restricted, being able to discuss the procedural abortion process using manual vacuum aspiration) breaks down barriers to access. 

Elevating Suturing Basics 

Elevating Suturing Basics is a hands-on workshop dedicated to improving the techniques and aesthetics of common surgical procedures expected of PAs in general surgery, emergency medicine, urgent care, and basic orthopedics. 

Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport
2500 N Hollywood Way, Burbank, CA 91505
(818) 843-6000

Book your hotel using our CAPA group rate HERE. 

Last Day to Book: Monday, September 16, 2024

Warner Bros. Studio Tour + Dinner at Brews Brothers

Explore where Hollywood is made. Go behind the lens and discover the secrets of movie making magic.

Los Angeles Marriott Burbank Airport
Saturday, October 5, 2024 
5:00pm-7:00pm 

On Saturday, October 5th we will host CAPA’s annual Student Challenge Bowl which brings together California PA programs in a medical trivia competition to compete for the prestigious title. As in previous years, each PA school will assign a Team Captain and two other Team Members to represent their schools. Teams will face off against each other, two at a time in bracket format, culminating in a final winner. 

Conference attendees, friends, and family are all welcome and encouraged to show their support for the students and the PA schools as they compete on Saturday evening! 

Student Challenge Bowl team sign-ups are open! Click here to register!

The deadline to sign up is Friday, August 23, 2024. Questions? Contact luz@capanet.org.

All participants must be CAPA members in good standing in order to compete. You do not need to be registered for CAPACon in order to attend or compete in the Student Challenge Bowl.

This program is not yet approved for CME credit. Conference organizers plan to apply for 50 AAPA Category 1 CME credits from the AAPA Review Panel. The total number of approved credits is yet to be determined.

Thank you to our sponsors and exhibitors for helping make CAPACon possible!

Branded sponsor

General sponsors

Exhibitors

Southern California Gas Company

Gilead Sciences

Kaiser Permanente

College of Idaho Doctor of Medical Science Programs

Endo USA

Optum

Earth Compounding Pharmacy

UCI School of medicine - TNT Fellowships