COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
The course is specifically geared towards any practitioner who treats women, including gynecologists, family physicians, internists, nurse practitioners, and nurses
- The Bladder: Incontinence and Irritability
- Discuss evaluation of a patient reporting symptoms of incontinence and list treatment options for same
- Menopausal Medicine: WHI and Beyond
- Counsel a patient on the use of HRT/ET, review a patientÂs risk of using HRT/RT based on current data, and provide appropriate treatment options for a patient for menopausal symptoms
- Osteoporosis 101
- List the current recommendations for evaluating a patient for osteoporosis and be able to determine a patient's risk for fracture using simple tools and subsequently establish a treatment plans for their patients
- Contraception: What's New, what's old and what's to come?
- Counsel a patient regarding all of their contraceptive options based on the age and their particular medical condition
- Vaginal Bugs and their Drugs
- Describe the evaluation of a woman reporting a vaginal discharge and will be able to provide a treatment plan for the most common vaginal infections and sexually transmitted diseases
- Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
- Describe the most common causes of abnormal uterine bleeding and will be able to explain treatment options for each of these
- Gynecological Surgeries/Topics of Controversy: Can a Robot Really Do It All? Morsels about Morcellation, Choosing more wisely with Choosing Wisely, What's the Mess about Mesh?--timely Gyn controversies in the news
- Discuss with patients some of the new surgical procedures available and counsel patients during the pre-operative decision-making period and be facile with some of the GYN topics in the lay press
- Breast Diseases
- Benign and Beyond:Describe the evaluation of a breast mass and create a treatment plan for evaluating an abnormal mammogram.
- Ovarian Masses
- What's a Doctor to Do?: Describe the features of an ovarian mass that make it suspicious for a malignancy as well as those features that are low and indeterminate risk.
- Female Sexuality
- Where Do I Begin? Describe the evaluation and outline an initial treatment plan of a patient diagnosed with a sexual dysfunction
- Vulvar Pain Syndromes and Dermatological Disorders
- Describe the 3 most common vulvar skin conditions and outline the evaluation and treatment of a patient with a vulvar skin condition.
- Cancer and Genetics
- Identify patients at higher risk for breast and ovarian cancer and devise a plan for referral of these high risk patients for genetic counseling and testing.
- Pap Smears and HPV : What's New?
- Describe the recommended cervical cancer screening guidelines for a low risk and an at risk patient and outline a strategy for application of the these guidelines to their clinical practice.
- Teaching Wellness to Wonder Woman
- Develop a strategy to counsel patients during a well-woman visit on basic lifestyle changes that will improve her overall quality of life.