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
4 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Selecting medications for your patients with Type 2 Diabetes
- Discuss the new treatment guidelines for therapy of Type 2 Diabetes
- Obesity Management Update
- Discuss the role of food plans,new medications and surgical interventions for weight reduction
- Managing disorders of calcium metabolism
- Discuss regulation of calcium metabolism and the new guidelines for managing hyperparathyroidism
- Managing Thyroid Disease
- Discuss guidelines for treatment of subclinical thyroid disease and management of thyroid nodules
- What is happening in Osteoporosis
- Discuss the individualization of therapy for patients with different manifestations of the disease
- Using Insulin Effectively
- Discuss the differentiation of type 1 and type 2 diabetes and the role of new insulins and monitoring technologies in improving primary care
- Challenging Endocrine Problems you will see in your practice
- Discuss evaluation of incidental adrenal and pituitary masses ,identifying eating disorders management of adrenal and pituitary insufficiency and hirsutism
- Dyslipidemia Management: A new look at the guidelines
- Discuss pathogenesis of dyslipidemia and therapeutic guidelines and food plans for management
- My Errors in Medicine Can Help You
- Discover and define Type 1 and Type 2 critical thinking
- Recognize and categorize the most common diagnostic errors
- Apply this knowledge to actual cases where errors occurred
- Chief Complaint of Chest Pain, so Now How Do I Work It Up
- Be able to describe the criteria and scoring systems used to clinically rule out for CAD or PE Apply the diagnostic criteria rule out emergency causes of chest pain and know the evidence based ways to work up these chest pain diagnoses
- Treating COPD and Asthma Exacerbations in the ED
- Distinguish COPD from Asthman Exacerbations and the treatment differences Develop a strategy to utilize therapies will be emphasized
- Use case discussions to identify mild to severe exacerbations of these conditions
- Discuss Beta 2 agonists, steroids and intubation strategies in the management of COPD and Asthma Exacerbations
- Update on the diagnosis and treatment of pneumonia and respiratory infections in the ED.
- List the up to date recommendations for antibiotic choices for pneumonia and how the microbiology has changed
- Know the changes in recommendations by the IDSA/ATS in 2019 compared to 2007
- Describe which populations are at increased risk of bad outcomes with influenza
- Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
- Synthesize and interpret the most recent literature regarding incision and drainage of abscesses
- Rapidly recognize various skin and soft tissue infections
- Describe the criteria and the diagnostic work up of severe soft tissue infections
- Differentiate when surgery is needed for severe infections
- Preventing COVID-19 infections, can we do it?
- Know the most current recommendations for vaccines and treatments
- Know if it is the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning
- The Impact of Patient Satisfaction on my Patients and My Practice
- Identify the financial impact of patient satisfaction on hospitals
- Illustrate simple skills to improve scores
- Apply service recovery skills to patients
- Applying leadership literature to medicine
- Know the importance of leadership throughout your organization
- Know the difference between leadership and management
- Understand the importance strengths and weaknesses and creating a vision for your success