COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
4 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists
PROGRAM PURPOSE
This course provides comprehensive reviews of the most important recent advances impacting primary care medicine. Lectures are designed to address conditions commonly encountered in the outpatient primary care office, with an emphasis
on preventive care and screening. Education is practical and results-focused, incorporating the latest guidelines and evidence, with the goal of improving your clinical approach to the wide array of conditions encountered in primary care practice.
Lectures, will include the presentation of cases, clinical scenarios and offer interactive discussions to allow ample time for discussion and posing questions to faculty.
Specific information gained includes:
Lectures, will include the presentation of cases, clinical scenarios and offer interactive discussions to allow ample time for discussion and posing questions to faculty.
Specific information gained includes:
- Updates on screening for breast, colorectal, lung, prostate and cervical cancer
- Approach to common complaints encountered in the outpatient setting
- Best practices to deliver immunizations to adult patients
- Practical pointers for managing diabetes and preventing complications
- Presentation of clinical scenarios and discussion of primary care cases
- Care and guidance for international travelers
- Screening and management of common sexually transmitted infections
- Health Prevention and Disease Promotion
- Describe the importance of screening tests in planning preventive care for patients
- Outline the development of guidelines, using the United States Preventive Services Task Force as an example
- Synthesize common health promotion and disease prevention guidelines for populations.
- Apply screening guidelines to a patient case in order to understand current recommendations
- Common Primary Care Complaints
- Summarize the broad range of clinical problems encountered by primary care physicians in the outpatient setting.
- Consider the communication skills, clinical decision-making skills, and commitment to lifelong learning, and health promotion and disease prevention important in outpatient primary care.
- Utilize the evidence-base to guide management devisions in conditions commonly encountered in the outpatient primary care setting
- Adult Immunizations
- Describe recommended best practices for administration of vaccines to adult patients.
- Compare recommended schedules for vaccine administration to adult patients and special populations.
- Identify contraindications for commonly used adult vaccines.
- Diabetes Clinical Prevention Recommendations
- Illustrate the importance of a pre-travel consultation in primary care, as well as trends in global migration.
- Summarize the components of a travel consultation, including anticipatory guidance given to travelers.
- Differentiate destination specific immunization and prophylactic medication needs of travelers.
- Demonstrate the importance of post-travel follow-up and identification of travel-acquired illnesses
- Clinical Cases in Family Medicine
- Interpret the signs and symptoms provided in clinical scenarios to apply clinical reasoning and select a diagnosis.
- Utilize guidelines and evidence-based strategies in selecting management strategies for presented conditions.
- Engage in solving clinical problems through discussion of clinical cases.
- Travel Medicine
- Apply the principles of fading immunity, herd immunity, and at-risk populations, as they relate to immunizations for adult specific vaccine preventable diseases.
- Utilize patient cases to present the adult recommended vaccine schedule, and the schedule for specific populations and indications for immunization.
- Summarize individual vaccine recommendations and contraindications.
- Sexually Transmitted Infection Update
- Identify the organisms that cause sexually transmitted infections and their modes of transmission.
- Describe the general diagnostic process and presenting symptoms of sexually transmitted infections.
- Summarize diagnostic methods, treatment options, and prevention measures for specific infections.
- Utilize public health principles and strategies for preventing the spread of sexually transmitted infections.
- Hypertension
- Apply new HTN guidelines
- Describe rationale for those guidelines
- Managing Mildly Abnormal Liver Functions
- Apply established guidelines in the evaluation of abnormal LFTs
- Describe the rationale behind the guidelines
- Common Skin Rashes and Skin lesions
- Identify and recognize common rashes and lesions in the primary care setting
- Introduction to CAM/Integrative Medicine including Herbals and Supplements
- Cite the frequency of use of various modalities among patients and health care professionals
- Give examples of the more common CAM therapies
- Examine the evidence base for and/or against common CAM therapies
- Evaluating Dyspepsia
- Apply established guidelines in the evaluation of Dyspepsia
- Describe the rationale behind the guidelines
- Low Back Pain
- Apply ACP/APS guidelines to the evaluation and treatment of low back pain
- Apply the concept of "red flags" to the evaluation of LBP
- Treating Obesity
- Identify health consequences of obesity
- Review pathophysiology of obesity
- Distinguish advantages/disadvantages of diet and exercise types
- Discover new modalities for treatment of obesity
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
PLEASE NOTE: To attend the conference, participants must book their cruise through Continuing Education, Inc.. This ensures our company can provide full conference services and complimentary social amenities to all meeting participants and their guests. Note also, that participants' family and friends are welcome to book within our group to take advantage of our typically excellent cruise rates. Thank you for your cooperation.
BIAS FREE CME - No Commercial Support was provided for this CME activity.
