COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- "Whose Life Is It Anyway"
Advanced Directives and End of Life Care Part 1
Objectives: After this session, the learner will be able to:- Distinguish physician paternalism from patient autonomy from partnerships
- "Whose Life Is It Anyway"
Advanced Directives and End of Life Care Part 2
Objectives: After this session, the learner will be able to:- Apply knowledge to challenging end of life case scenarios.
- "Get Smart" About Diabetic Management In The Geriatric Population
Objectives: After this session, the learner will be able to:- Recognize differences in treatment strategies and goals in the diabetic geriatric patient
- "Driving Miss Daisy": Driving Assessment of the Elderly
Objectives: After this session, the learner will be able to:- Give examples of aging changes that may affect driving skills
- How to Be A GENE-ius: An Entertaining Guide Through Genetic Drug Sensitivity Testing
Objectives: After this session, the learner will be able to:- Interpret and use genetic testing in clinical practice
- C. difficile - Muy Dificil
Objectives: After this session, the learner will be able to:- Select the best treatment options for recurrent C. difficile
- The Ten Commandments of Medical Ethics
Objectives: After this session, the learner will be able to:- Describe how using medical ethics can help with decision making in clinical practice
- Osteoporosis
Objectives: At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:- Evaluate screening recommendations and apply them to everyday practice
- Utilize therapies that include bisphosphonates, PTH and inhibitors of the RANK/RANKL/OPG system
- Recommend appropriate vitamin D therapy
- Better advise patients on calcium supplementation
- Redefining Alzheimer's Disease
Objectives: At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:- Define Mild Cognitive Impairment in both amnestic and non-amnestic disease states
- Understand the potential implications of early diagnosis of dementia for patient care outcomes
- Describe the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease
- Evaluate patients for symptoms of cognitive and functional loss
- Apply appropriate drug and non-drug interventions for patients with dementia
- Counsel families and caregivers at all stages of disease
- To Sleep: Perchance to Dream
Objectives: At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:- Describe the age-related changes in sleep
- Evaluate the psychiatric, medical, and neurological causes of sleep problems
- Implement office-based and objective methods for evaluating sleep disordered breathing
- Intervene with appropriate treatments for complaints of insomnia
- Management of Constipation
Objectives: At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:- Understand the common barriers that hinder the optimal management of chronic constipation in health care settings
- Define primary as well as secondary causes of hypertension in the older adult
- Provide a rational strategy to manage constipation based on current best evidence of the drug classes currently available
- Where Pain Management Meets Addiction Medicine
Objectives: At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:- Understand the pathogenesis of pain
- Apply recent guidelines in pain management
- Choose appropriate drug therapy and multimodal interventions for the relief of pain
- Enroll in your state's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP)
- Balance the management of patients who present with both pain and opioid addiction
- Pulmonary Disease in the Elderly
Objectives: At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:- Evaluate current trends in pulmonary disease in the elderly
- Review current immunization guidelines and supportive therapy
- Discuss the key components of managing respiratory illness
- Implement the appropriate use of nebulizers, MDIs and oxygen
- Apply guideline directed care to patients with COPD
- Nutritional Supplements: When East meets West
Objectives: At the end of this session, the learner will be able to:- Understand that adequate nutrition is a prerequisite for the maintenance of good health and optimum efficiency
- Find the on-line resources that provide the best evidence in support of dietary and nutritional supplements
- Identify targeted supplements for heart disease, vision, depression/mood, and urologic disorders
- Council patients on the risks of certain therapies in the presence of other disease