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
2 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
To update providers dealing with women's health issues on the most current evidence-based information and practice guidelines in the context of a team-based approach to patient care. The course will attempt to enhance clinical decision-making among providers of women's health care including Ob/Gyns, midlevel practitioners, and primary care physicians.
The purpose of the lectures is also to help providers utilize the latest up to date information on a wide variety of conditions seen by Primary Care. Educate physicians, midlevels and nurses on the best approaches and communication to work together and ensure the best pt. outcomes.
Topics:
- Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: Newer Terminology and Management
- Apply current techniques of endometrial ablation as a viable alternative to hysterectomy
- Screening and Treating for Sexually Transmitted Infections-Current CDC Guidelines
- Utilize current CDC guidelines in the management of sexually-transmitted infections
- Update on Hormonal Contraception: the Move Towards LARC
- Evaluate contraceptive options to provide an individualized approach to contraceptive counseling
- Medications and Pregnancy
- Identify meds to use, those to avoid, and those to consider in pregnancy
- Hormonal Alternatives in Managing Menopause
- Apply current postmenopausal hormone therapy guidelines to provide an individualized approach in menopausal patients
- Communicating with Patients: Medical Writing, Health Literacy, Medical Websites, and More
- Address deficiencies in health literacy to improve health outcomes and experiences
- Assess and utilize objective health information from a variety of internet sources
- Obesity in Pregnancy
- Apply contemporary strategies in managing risks associated with obesity in pregnancy
- Osteoporosis: What Professionals Need to Know
- Utilize contemporary management options for post-menopausal patients
- Eat to live; get the healthiest diet
- Teach patients the benefits of healthy eating
- Get your hinny moving: Exercise & exercise prescription
- How to motivate our patients to get the exercise they need
- Thyroid disease case studies
- Apply the new thyroid guidelines to hypo, hyper & nodules
- Case studies in adrenal & pituitary problems
- Develop a screening to identify parathyroid, pituitary and adrenal problems and treat them.
- Cardiac risk stratification & testing of adults
- Apply proper screening tools to detect & stratify heart disease
- Screening for cancer: Latest recommendations
- Physicians need to know the latest evidence based screening tests
- Healthy behavior change: What works
- How do we effect healthy behavior change in our patients