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COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
CLE Credit may be available.
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
The course will provide an overview of important pathologies seen commonly in the PICU. It will empower the learners to gain skills that will allow them to recognize critical illness early in children and to intervene in clinical scenarios commonly encountered. The learner will be able to recognize sepsis early and intervene appropriately.
- Education Basics for Teaching Patients, Families/Caregivers, and Staff
- Connecting Research to Practice
- Skills for Team Based Healthcare Delivery
- Clinicians will learn evidence-based details regarding management of common impactful issues in primary care such as type II diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and contraception.
- Clinicians will learn general patient-oriented schemes to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of various patient care options.
- Clinicians will learn and use tools which they can keep using back home which provide quick-reference decision support during patient care.
- Education Basics: Goals and Objectives
- Differentiate between learning goals and objectives and construct a learning objective relevant to their own clinical setting.
- Education Basics: Connecting the learner and the content.
- Review and apply the basic traits of adult learners to the content we want them to master.
- Education Basics: Designing Instruction.
- Differentiate between the ADDIE and ASSURE models, and select the best approach depending on your goals.
- Connecting Research to Practice: What is research; and what are the building blocks?
- Define research and identity three basic strategies.
- Connecting Research to Practice: Finding useful research outcomes.
- Identify processes to find useful and relevant research outcomes.
- Creating and Managing Teams: What's the Difference Between a Staff and a Team?
- Differentiate between a staff and a team and discuss strategies to transition from staff to team.
- Creating and Managing Teams: How do Teams Become Self-supporting?
- Define and explore the roles of climate and culture in the clinical setting and they foster team-based care.
- Congenital Cardiac Malformations and Repair
- Discuss the anatomy and repair of common congenital heart lesions
- Pathophysiology and Treatment of Sepsis
- List the current treatment goals for sepsis to be delivered in the early hours of therapy.
- Vaccine-preventable Illnesses and their ICU Manifestations
- Describe the clinical manifestations of several vaccine-preventable illnesses.
- Severe Asthma Management: From Home to the PICU
- List the most important treatments for severe asthma.
- Death by Neurological Criteria: Diagnosis and Management
- Describe the criteria for the clinical diagnosis of brain death
- Ethical Issues in the PICU
- Discuss relevant ethical issues commonly encountered in the PICU
- Endocrine Emergencies in the ICU: Case Studies in DKA, Thyroid Storm and Adrenal Insufficiency.
- Discuss the appropriate management of endocrine emergencies in the PICU.