
16 ACPE Credits
16 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
16.0 Contact Hours
6½ Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
Course Fees:
$995 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Pharmacists, & Dentists$750 for Physician Assistants
$750 for Nurse Practitioners
$595 for Nurses, Students & Others
BIAS FREE CME - No Commercial Support was provided for this CME activity.
Target Audience
Program Purpose
- Rheumatoid Arthritis: Advances in diagnosis and management
- Learn the new American College of Rheumatology/ EULAR diagnostic criteria
- Understand the application of new serologic tests
- Appreciate how use biologic agents in RA treatment
- Psoriatic Arthritis: whats new in management of skin and joints
- Able to recognize between various forms of psoriatic arthritis
- Know the new treatment modalities for PA
- Spondyloarthropathies
- Discuss rheumatic and systemic features of this group of disease.
- Learn new diagnostic and treatment options
- Gout and Crystal induced Arthropathies
- Understand the epidemiology of gout
- Discuss diagnosis of gout and pseudgout
- Learn new treatment options
- Fibromyalgia: What it is and what it is not
- Appreciate the contentious arguments surrounding this condition
- Learn current opinions about pathophysiology
- Osteoarthritis
- Discuss bio-mechanical and demographic aspects
- Appreciate medical management
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosis: Clinical Vignettes
- Review the current diagnostic criteria for SLE
- When to refer a patient with SLE to a Rheumatologist
- Ethical dilemmas in Rheumatology
- Identify ethical issued in common practice
- Discuss the language of ethical discourse
- Obesity and Cardiometabolic syndrome
- Describe the pathophysiology of the cardiometabolic syndrome
- The Mediterranean diet and other heart healthy diets
- Describe the evidence supporting the beneficial effects of the Mediterranean diet
- Hypertension-new treatment recommendations
- Outline the major changes in the new AHA/ACC guidelines regarding the treatment of hypertension
- Erectile Dysfunction-The hard evidence
- Explain the prevalence and the pathophysiology of erectile dysfunction.
- Describe three treatment strategies for ED
- Statin intolerance-the tricks of the trade
- Describe the prevalence of statin intolerance
- Describe three treatment strategies for statin intolerance
- Alirocumab and Evolocumab-PCSK9 inhibitors
- Explain the pharmacologic mechanism of PCSK9 inhibitors in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia
- Pre-Operative evaluation for noncardiac surgery
- Explain the risk stratification for patients anticipating noncardiac surgery
- Congestive Heart Failure-Update
- Describe a comprehensive and evidence-based approach to the medical management of congestive heart failure