COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
16 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
This activity will also provide a comprehensive overview of pain medicine and chronic pain management. At the end of this activity, attendees will have new skills and strategies to manage chronic pain issues, recognize warning signs, take preventive action, diagnose underlying issues, deal with opioids, and balance multimodal treatments. Learners will receive an overview of Regenerative Medicine and stem cell therapy. Topics will include a review of common terminology, discussions with patients, and commonly asked questions. Presentations will include advancements in regenerative biotherapeutics and regenerative medicine in the field of pain management.
- Breast Cancer Risk Reduction
- Consult with patients and discuss mammogram results in a detailed and informative way to help plan for future diagnostics and treatment
- Recommend possible lifestyle changes to decrease future risk for breast cancer
- Hyposexual Desire Disorder (Low Libido)
- Utilize the HSDD screening tool and explain the results to patients
- Provide various individualized treatment solutions for HSDD
- Hot Topics in ObGyn 2023
- Identify common side effects and complications associated with long term reversible contraception, miscarriage in the first trimester, and bleeding patterns associated with fibroids or endometriosis
- Be aware of diagnostic and therapeutic options for all of these, and findings that would signal a need for emergent care or referral will be identified
- Update on Menopausal Management
- Evaluate patients to see if they are candidates for hormone replacement
- Develop a basic knowledge of safe evidence based hormone replacement
- Be familiar with several alternative treatment plans for management of menopause
- Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause
- Take a history, do a proper evaluation and will have a list of resources for possible pharmaceutical and other therapeutic treatment options to offer patients who present with complaints related to the genitourinary syndrome of menopause
- Be aware of the evidence for safety and desired outcomes for patients started on a program to treat these symptoms
- What's New In Contraception?
- Start, continue, or discontinue their patients on various methods of contraception, based on the information and evidence available on these methods
- Be familiar with the new information on oral contraception, IUDs and barrier methods
- Bleeding: Who/What/Why and what to do?
- Develop a standardized way to evaluate bleeding patterns at every age
- Rule out dangerous conditions and order appropriate diagnostic testing
- Recommend treatment options to safely correct bothersome bleeding patterns at any age
- Preconception Counseling: What Should We Talk About?
- Discuss recommendations for Folic Acid supplementation, family and genetic history review, updates on vaccinations, patients' past health and medical history, and review of all medications used with all women of reproductive age
- Evidenced Based Approach to back Pain Management
- Discuss the limits of the physical exam, the important history questions that make a difference, and how to integrate the clinical objective information with the patients subjective complaints
- Women and Pain
- Discuss the factors that may contribute to acute pain becoming chronic
- Consider co-existant diseases, IBS, Mental Illness, Fibromyalgia and Migraine that may amplify the pain complaint, and/or are misdiagnosed
- Identify several conservative lifestyle treatments that might influence pain perception, central and peripheral sensitization, and reduce pain tolerance
- How to Manage Common Medication Problems
- Build a collaborative approach with patients to manage common pain medication issues
- Pain, and Treating Pain: Why does it even matter? And how to do it in the current climate of pain.
- Discuss the physiologic functions impaired by chronic pain
- Develop a different perspective in treating chronic pain patients
- The Relationship between Smoking and Pain
- Consider the relationship between smoking and pain
- Be better prepared to motivate patients on smoking cessation
- Osteoporosis and You
- Appreciate the importance of early treatment in osteoporosis, and be able to better diagnose and treat it
- Urine drug testing - practical pearls
- Discuss the role of urine drug testing and have a clear understanding of how to interpret the results