
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ANCC Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
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Adult Primary Care: Immunization Updates
- Review patient cases requiring vaccine recommendations
- Discuss details of new FDA approvals
- Consider special populations
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Adult Primary Care: Thyroid
- Review patient case presentations
- Consider tests to order (and not to order)
- Titrate thyroid replacement therapy
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Adult Primary Care: Colorectal and Breast
- Review updates for colorectal cancer and breast cancer screening
- Recognize the harms and benefits of screening
- Find resources for informed shared decision making with patients
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Adult Primary Care: Prostate and Cervix
- Review updates for prostate cancer and cervical cancer screening
- Discuss technological advances that affect care decisions
- Manage abnormal results
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Adult Primary Care: Cardiovascular Disease
- Identify ways to reduce vascular risk
- Review patient case presentations regarding lipid guidelines
- Discuss when coronary artery calcium (CAC) can be helpful
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Adult Primary care: Pulmonary and Bone Health
- Review updates for Low Dose (LD) Lung CT
- Discuss DXA screening and interpretation
- Incorporate the latest updates into practice
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Adult Primary Care: Top Articles
- Summarize recent articles important to medical practice
- Consider the implications of findings on treatment
- Discuss how the findings impact medical practice
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Health Promotion: Encouraging a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit
- Assess the patient’s current state of physical, psychological, and spiritual health.
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Treatment of Migraine, Tension-Type, and Cluster Headaches
- Effectively treat patients with migraine headache using non-pharmacologic means, abortive medications, and preventive medications.
- Consider that tension-type and cluster headaches are discrete sub-types of headache, each of which requires a specific diagnostic approach.
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Diagnosing and Managing Depression: Overcoming the Blues
- Sustain initial treatment for depression for six months after remission of symptoms to lower risk of relapse.
- Recognize that depression is a common, but often misdiagnosed illness, which can be treated effectively by primary care physicians using medical therapy, psychotherapy, and adjunctive treatment.
- Utilize the following adjunctive treatments where appropriate: Patient education (“bibliotherapy”), Diet (limit sugar, simple CHOs, caffeine), Exercise (150 min/week), Behavioral activation (pleasant activities), Light (10,000 lux for 30 min daily), Support (“iatrotherapy”), Spirituality.
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Get Me Out of Here!: Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia in Primary Care
- Elicit and assess symptoms of panic disorder and agoraphobia.
- Apply appropriate lifestyle modification and stress management skills, including muscle relaxation, breathing control, thought-stopping, and cognitive restructuring.
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Somatoform Disorders: Illness as a Way of Life
- Recognize the key symptoms, signs, and clinical presentation of somatizing patients.
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Communication: Becoming a Healer
- Consider the clinician’s role from the personal and psychosocial aspects of care their clinicians.
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The Faith Factor: Practicing Spiritually-Sensitive Care
- Elicit a spiritual history in an ethically-appropriate manner. Spiritually-sensitive care enhances the clinician-patient relationship and may positively influence health care outcomes.





































