COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
14 (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
- 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
- Examination and treatment of common shoulder conditions
- Introduce, discuss, and demonstrate a layered approach to the examination of the shoulder
- Evaluation and treatment of low back pain
- Describe common conditions associated with low back pain and appropriate treatments
- Examination and treatment of common knee conditions
- Demonstrate an approach to the examination of the knee and describe common knee conditions
- Performance enhancing drugs
- Discuss and understand the most common performance enhancing substances and their effect on athletic performance
- Common pediatric injuries
- Discuss the evaluation and examination of common pediatric musculoskeletal injuries and overuse injuries
- Concussion management
- Discuss the requirements of the current evaluation of concussion and the return to sport guidelines
- Sports Dermatology and infectious diseases
- Recognize, treat and provide sports clearance for athletes presenting with common dermatological conditions