COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Hyperlipidemia Practice Guidelines: Aiming for the Moving Target
- Recognizing current lipid management guidelines
- Identifying at-risk patients
- Account for the gaps in common risk calculators
- Apply knowledge to real world examples
- Alphabet Soup: Updates in USPSTF Screening Guidelines
- Identifying screening updates
- Discuss controversial screening recommendations
- Apply these guidelines to our patient population
- The Heart of the Family: Role of the Family Medicine Provider in the Management of Heart Failure
- Define the role of the primary care provider in heart failure
- Discuss new recommendations in heart failure management and medications
- Managing acute exacerbations in the clinic and outpatient settings
- "I hurt all over": Fibromyalgia: Case- based
- Describe the constellation of patient symptoms related to fibromyalgia and the overlap with many other common
- Employ evidence based medicine to apply algorithm to real world patient examples
- Recognizing fibromyalgia as a diagnosis of exclusion
- An Arm's Length: Common Upper Extremity Maladies and Treatment Strategies for the Primary Care Office
- Recognizing common upper extremity disorders
- Identify the patient needing referral
- Minimize unnecessary imaging
- Utilizing appropriate upper extremity injections
- From the Bedroom to the Exam Room: The Infertility Enigma Undressed
- Defining infertility
- Describe many contributing male and female factors
- Discuss what can be managed in the family medicine clinic
- Identify the patient who needs referral
- Risky Business: Exposures in Healthcare Providers
- Recognize that the healthcare profession incurs some inherent risk
- Discuss common exposures and appropriate prophylaxis
- Application to caring for healthcare providers
- The High Price of Sugar: Balancing Novelty and Cost in Diabetes Management.
- List commonly used diabetes treatments and identify their costs.
- Select an appropriate treatment plan and utilize cost effective evidence based care.
- I's going tibia ok: Osteoporosis Screening and Management
- Describe appropriate screening for osteoporosis and summarize available treatments to employ a patient centered care plan.
- The Pressure is Rising: The Ever Changing Hypertension Guideline
- Cite current hypertension guidelines
- Describe changes to recent guidelines and modify treatment plans to achieve blood pressure goals.
- COPD: The GOLD and the New
- Recognize the GOLD criteria for COPD diagnosis and identify the stepwise approach to COPD care management.
- Thyroid: Too high, Too low, and the Pearls You Didn't Know
- List appropriate thyroid axis abnormalities and describe appropriate, cost effective workup.
- Final Destination: Navigating Through Conversations and Symptoms at the End of Life
- Discover strategies for important conversations for end of life care.
- Select appropriate treatment plans and apply to real world symptom management examples
- Billing and Coding: Making Your Numbers Matter
- Utilize a standard and repeatable process to choose correct coding for a clinic visit, document appropriately, and capture co-morbidities within the ICD-10 system
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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