COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
MOC (Part II) points in the American Board of Pediatrics' (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
8 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Celiac disease
- Identify risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for celiac disease
- C. difficile colitis
- Define risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for C. difficile colitis
- Eosinophilic esophagitis
- Describe risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for eosinophilic esophagitis
- Fulminant hepatic failure
- Cite risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for fulminant hepatic failure
- Update, chronic hepatitis C
- Identify risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for chronic hepatitis C
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Define risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Imaging of space occupying lesions of the liver
- Analyze the principles, strengths, weaknesses, and diagnostic characteristics of modalities for imaging of space occupying lesions of the liver.
- Pediatric fever update
- List serious bacterial infections
- Indicate clinical scores for behavior in the patient unable to communicate
- Calculate risks for sepsis, meningitis, and
- Describe the significance of fever
- Identify the indications for specific testing in the febrile infant
- Event Medicine
- Identify medical entities likely to present by event
- Describe medications and personnel required for coverage
- Evaluate environment, including weather to determine necessary resources
- Syncope Evaluation and Management
- Formulate guideline to identify patients most at risk following a loss of consciousness.
- Identify specific cardiac and pulmonary causes for near-syncope
- Distinguish the seizure patient from the syncopal patient
- Define safe guidelines for discharge of the syncopal patient
- Resuscitation Update
- Indicate the indications for targeted temperature management
- Demonstrate the proposed use of neuroimaging in cardiac arrest
- Appraise the value of ECMO in the emergency setting
- Recognize the value of medications in the setting of ACLS
- Trends in the Management of Pediatric Trauma
- Illustrate differences inherent in the traumatized child versus the injured adult
- Discuss transfusion guidelines in the injured pediatric patient
- Indicate indications and risks for head CT
- Debate management of the concussed child
- Legal Considerations in Emergency Care
- Formulate specific presentations which expose the practitioner to liability.
- Estimate the cost in time, stress, and dollars for which the practitioner is as risk
- Debate mechanisms by which one can avoid a lawsuit
- Illustrate the magnitude of the problem in emergency care
- Pain Management in the Era of the Narcotic Abuse Scourge
- Name alternatives to narcotics in the management of pain.
- List evidence for the use and efficacy of certain agents
- Recognize the risks and magnitude of narcotics abuse