COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
5 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
$895.00 for Physicians, Psychiatrists, Pharmacists, & Attorneys
$695.00 for Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners
$495.00 for Nurses, Students & Others
TARGET AUDIENCE
Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists
PROGRAM PURPOSE
The purpose of this CME activity is to review and discuss common general medical conditions and to provide guidelines for their management and prevention.
Topics have been chosen to benefit the family physician, general internist and Advance Practice Professionals in an ambulatory care setting
The topics in Emergency Medicine will clarify when to work up and when to refer to the specialist. This would enable the practitioner to utilize the resources of the hospital or clinic wisely. The Physician or the Advance Practice Provider that attends the course will be able to navigate this conditions with expertise and will facilitate a smooth transition of care.
Knowing that not all attendees will be Emergency Physicians, the topics selected are common and general in nature, for easy understanding, but with severe complications if left untreated or if they go unrecognized by the practitioner. This information will be relevant to all attendees.
Topics:
Topics have been chosen to benefit the family physician, general internist and Advance Practice Professionals in an ambulatory care setting
The topics in Emergency Medicine will clarify when to work up and when to refer to the specialist. This would enable the practitioner to utilize the resources of the hospital or clinic wisely. The Physician or the Advance Practice Provider that attends the course will be able to navigate this conditions with expertise and will facilitate a smooth transition of care.
Knowing that not all attendees will be Emergency Physicians, the topics selected are common and general in nature, for easy understanding, but with severe complications if left untreated or if they go unrecognized by the practitioner. This information will be relevant to all attendees.
Topics:
- Identifying and Managing Low Health Literacy
- Understand which patient groups are at greatest risk for low health literacy
- Appreciate the role that low health literacy plays on health outcomes
- Review a simple intervention to identify the low health literacy patient
- Preoperative Assessment of Cardiac Risk in Non-Cardiac Surgery
- To appreciate causes of preroperative cardiac events
- To understand which patients require preoperative assessment
- Hypertension in African Americans
- To understand the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans
- To review social determinants of health which impact on effective treatment in this population
- Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Primer for Primary Care Clinicians
- Review the role of the primary care clinician in the co-management of rheumatoid arthritis
- Describe the role of disease-modifying drugs (DMARDs) on the clinical course of rheumatoid arthritis
- Physician Wellness and Resilience: Old Problem; New Urgency
- To define physician wellness and the impact of physician stress on physicians and their patients
- To describe new interventions to help physicians cope with wellness issues.
- Heart Disease in Women
- Appreciate sex-related differences in symptoms of ischemia between men and women
- Review non-traditional risk factors for CAD impacting women that deserve special attention
- Discuss strategies to raise awareness and close the gaps to optmize treatment of heart disase in men and women
- Resistant Hypertension - Review of Case Studies to Enhance Understanding
- Through the use of case studies review the epidemiology the clinical presentation and evidence-based approaches resistant hypertension (HTN)
- Use current guidelines and algorithms to develop treatment plans for patients with HTN with an emphasis on resistant HTN
- BRUE (Brief Resolved Unexplained Event)
- Define and classify low risk BRUE
- Foreign Body Aspiration
- List different types of FB aspiration and how to manage them
- Foreign Body Ingestion
- List different types of FB ingestions and how to manage them
- Hyperemesis Gravidarum
- Explain how to treat this common condition with home remedies and hospital interventions
- Pediatric Abdominal Non-Traumatic Emergencies
- Identify many surgical emergencies in Pediatric patients, how to properly diagnose and treat them
- Orthopedic Pitfalls Upper Extremities
- Recognize this orthopedic emergencies, how to interpret the x-rays and how to manage them
- Orthopedic Pitfalls Lower Extremity
- Recognize this orthopedic emergencies, how to interpret the x-rays and how to manage them
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
PLEASE NOTE: To attend the conference, participants must book their cruise through Continuing Education, Inc.. This ensures our company can provide full conference services and complimentary social amenities to all meeting participants and their guests. Note also, that participants' family and friends are welcome to book within our group to take advantage of our typically excellent cruise rates. Thank you for your cooperation.
BIAS FREE CME - No Commercial Support was provided for this CME activity.
