COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™12 ACPE Credits
12.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Why is obesity everywhere and so hard to manage? Rational management considerations and strategies.
- Understand the demographics and penetration of weight issues as you see in your practice, inclusive of co-morbidities seen
- Explain the impact of obesity in the lives of your patients
- Understanding obesity surgery. Understanding the procedures, risks, and benefits.
- Discuss the historical and current bariatric interventional and surgical options for the non-surgeon
- Understand the potential use of these interventions for weight control
- Discuss the risks and benefits of bariatric surgery and treatment
- Discuss the goals, efficacy, and limitations of bariatric surgery
- How to manage bariatric surgery patients post and peri-operatively: behavioral changes, supplements, and understanding issues and complications that may arise.
- Effectively engage your bariatric surgery patients in their weight loss efforts
- Develop a patient-driven and empathetic approach to guiding your bariatric surgery patients in their health and weight-loss pursuits
- Create an interprofessional team to better serve your bariatric surgery patients' weight loss needs
- How to talk to your patients about their weight issues. How to guide them in their weight loss pursuits.
- Effectively engage your patients in their weight loss efforts
- Develop a patient-driven and empathetic approach to guiding your patients in their health and weight-loss pursuits
- Create an interprofessional team to better serve your patients' weight loss needs
- Myths vs. Science in Nutritional Trends: Approach for the Medical Professional
- Discussion of how to scientifically navigate the nutritional maze of popular diets and nutritional trends; The potential nutrition benefits and pitfalls of various dietary preferences and related patient concerns; Ways nutrition affects healthy lifestyles
- Cutting Edge Nutrition Innovation: A Personalized Approach
- How to critically evaluate nutrition tools that patients can use to promote optimal health; Review the “latest and greatest” nutrition applications and technologies that can be used to greatly improve patients' nutrition and health pursuits; Creation of personalized health plans based on unique, patient-specific plans, tests, and analyses
- Medical Nutrition Therapy: A Practical Approach to Diet and Disease
- Science-based Nutrition and Behavioral Guide to Treating “The Big” Medical Problems that are taking over your practice; Essential (and proven) strategies to help guide patients' diet and behaviors in the treatment of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and GI health; Travel through the google-mess of what patients hear and why they turn to these as resources; The science-based strategies and resources that can be implemented to help patients take rational control of their health
- Nutrition Through the Ages: Prevention and Potential Pitfalls
- A working guide for a nutritional and behavioral rubric to understand what is expected (and what may undermine) optimal health from infancy through the elderly; Barriers patients face in implementing and sticking with nutritional strategies