Cured into Destitution: Understanding Financial Hardship after Trauma and Emergency Surgery - John W. Scott, MD, MPH, FACS
Series Overview
The Department of Surgery Grand Rounds features presentations relating to best practices in surgery, teamwork, and groundbreaking clinical research. Grand Rounds features a variety of surgical specialties, in order to best represent the population of clinicians and learners within the department and to broaden surgical knowledge outside of one’s direct specialty. We invite presenters from campus and across the world to provide meaningful learning experiences to members of our department.
Intended Audience
MD/DO, RN, and APRN.
Learning Objectives
As a result of participation in this educational activity, members of the healthcare team will:
- Define Financial Toxicity / Financial Hardship as it relates to our patients.
- Explain how insurance status and type influence risk of catastrophic out-of-pocket spending following injury.
- Identify demographic and system-level factors that drive risk for financial hardship after injury, independent of injury severity.
- Summarize the downstream consequences of medical debt and financial hardship on health-related quality of life.
- Discuss practical policy and clinical interventions aimed at mitigating financial toxicity for trauma and emergency surgery patients.
FACULTY DISCLOSURE
It is the policy of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Interprofessional Continuing Education Partnership (ICEP) to identify, mitigate and disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education (CE). In addition, speakers, presenters and authors must disclose any planned discussion of unlabeled/unapproved uses of drugs or devices during their presentation.
* Ineligible companies are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on, patients.
The ACCME does not consider providers of clinical services directly to patients to be ineligible companies.
For this accredited continuing educational activity all relevant financial relationships have been mitigated and detailed disclosures are listed below:
| Name | Role | Financial Relationship Disclosures | Discussion of Unlabeled/Unapproved uses of drugs/devices in presentation? |
| John W. Scott, MD, MPH, FACS Associate Professor, Department of Surgery Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Health Metric Sciences Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington | Presenter | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Anne Lidor, MD, Chair Department of Surgery University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | Committee Member, Course Director | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Veronica Watson, EdD, Coordinator Department of Surgery University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Mary Beth Henry, RN, MS, CS, APNP Department of Surgery University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Rebecca Minter, MD Department of Surgery University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
| Aly Bulman, PA-C Department of Surgery University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health | Committee Member | No relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose | No |
Accreditation Statement
![]() | In support of improving patient care, the University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. |
Credit Designation Statements
American Medical Association (AMA)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC)
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 1 ANCC contact hour.
AAPA Credit Designation Statement
| The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 1 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. Approval is valid until 9/11/2026. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation. |
American Board of Surgery (ABS)
![]() | Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit. |
Continuing Education Units
The University of Wisconsin–Madison ICEP, as a member of the University Professional & Continuing Education Association (UPCEA), authorizes this program for 0.1 continuing education units (CEUs) or 1 hour.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AAPA Category 1 CME
- 1.00 ABS Accredited CME
- 1.00 ABS Self-Assessment
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 ANCC Contact Hours
- 1.00 University of Wisconsin–Madison Continuing Education Hours
- 1.00 Approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Registration for this activity can only be completed through the ICEP Learning Portal. Attendee registrations made through any other sites cannot be honored. UW-Madison ICEP is not able to refund fees paid through unaffiliated registration sites, such as eMedEvents.com, MedConfWorld.com, EventEgg.com, and 10times.com. Please report any unauthorized websites or solicitations for registrations to [email protected].
Accessibility
If you need anything to participate in this program, please contact [email protected].
Required Hardware/software
Computer, tablet, or other mobile device with sound.
Free, current version of Edge, Firefox, Safari, or Chrome. Some older browsers and Internet Explorer could produce error messages or not display the content correctly.
Free, current version of Adobe Acrobat Reader or other .pdf reader.

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