
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
6 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
$995 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Pharmacists, & DentistsTARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
The participants will:
- Identify the multi-modal pain control to enhance improved outcomes in the age of the Opium Crisis
- Describe techniques to Improve Clinician Communication Across the Care Continuum
- Explore anxiety related depression, dementia & treatment options with the aging population.
- Evaluate importance of early interventions outcomes Sepsis 2019 Updates
- Review biomedical case studies & how to apply them in real world situations
- Discuss the role of Palliative Care to improve pt sense of well being & quality of life
- Identify signs of Compassion Fatigue & develop a resiliency plan
Topics:
- Overview of a Travel Medical Service
- Describe trends in international travel
- Identify resources available for the travel medicine clinician
- List the components of a core travel medicine evaluation
- Describe the role of "routine" vaccination in travelers
- Vector-borne illness
- Identify travel activities that are associated with exposure to vector-borne illnesses
- Formulate strategies for prevention of mosquito and tick-borne infectious diseases
- Describe international regulations for Yellow Fever vaccination
- Food and Water-borne illness
- Identify patients at risk of food and water-borne illness
- Formulate strategies for the prevention of food and water-borne illnesses including
- Vaccination strategies
- Behavioral interventions, and
- Use of medications and antibiotic therapy
- The Traveler with Pre-Existing Medical Conditions
- Identify how international travel may exacerbate or confer added risk to patients with underlying co-morbidities
- Develop strategies for minimizing travel related illness in patients with medical co-morbidities
- Travel-Related Environmental Exposures
- Identify environments that confer increased risk of travel-related morbidity
- Formulate behavioral strategies for mitigating risk related to environmental exposures
- Describe appropriate vaccination and medication prescribing to minimize risk related to environmental exposures
- Travel-Related Activities
- Identify patient activities that are likely to lead to travel-related illness
- Describe appropriate strategies for minimizing risk related to patient activities and behaviors while traveling
- The sick returned traveler
- Recognize the most common travel-associated conditions to present after returning from international travel
- Describe the assessment of the patient returning from travel with:
- Fever
- Skin rash, and
- Diarrheal syndromes
- Identify patients at risk of epidemiologically important illnesses including MERS and Avian Influenza
- Pain Management in the Age of Diversion
- Identify the opioid crisis & multi -modal pain control to enhance improved outcomes
- Updates in Palliative Care 2019
- Discuss the role of Palliative Care to improve team performance & quality of life
- Sepsis Prevention Strategies
- Evaluate early interventions with Sepsis 2019 Updates
- Exploring the Relationship of Depression & Dementia
- Explore anxiety related depression, dementia & treatment options with the aging population.
- Improving Clinician Communication Across the Continuum
- Describe techniques to decrease the communication breakdowns between & in healthcare settings & EMR systems.
- Case Studies in Biomedical Ethics
- Analyze biomedical case studies & how to apply them in real world situations
- Compassion Fatigue & Resiliency Strategies
- Identify signs of Compassion Fatigue & develop a resiliency plan
- Medical Cannabis: Clinical Considerations
- Review of the endocannabinoid systemt and how the medical cannabis system has evolved
- Recognize when medical cannabis is appropriate as a therapeutic option.
- How to Authorize Medical Cannabis and Case Studies
- Understand how to authorize/prescribe medical cannabis and apply the knowledge gained to real cases.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Register your interest and receive a full quote at 800-422-0711 (US/Can) or direct/int'l tel: +1-727-526-1571 or register online.
Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.