CME Sam Continuing Medical Education and Self Assessment Modules

Continuing Medical Education and Self Assessment Modules: Meetings, Webinars, and Self Study Courses

Topics in Child & Adolescent Medicine, Women's Health, and Geriatrics Western Caribbean Cruise
Sunday, December 16, 2018 - Sunday, December 23, 2018

CME Provider:
Continuing Education, Inc. ›
5700 4th Street N
St. Petersburg, Florida (FL) 33703
United States

Phone: (800) 422-0711

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Conference Center:
Aboard Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas
7-Night Western Caribbean Cruise Conference
Departs Fort Lauderdale, Florida (FL)
United States

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Description:
Topics:

1. Dementia vs. Depression (diagnosis/management)
Distinguish between dementia and depression.
Identify the main causes of dementia and apply appropriate diagnostic and treatment strategies.
Utilize the Alzheimer''s Association Pocketcard App for an updated easily accessible resource in primary care settings.
Recognize and manage depression in older patients.

2. Delirium (prevention, diagnosis, management)
Apply the Confusion Assessment Method to diagnose delirium
Identify and treat underlying causes of delirium
Maximize use of non-pharmachologic approaches to delirium

3. Critical Geriatric Perspectives: Frailty,Debility, and the Importance of Functional Assessment
Define debility and frailty.
Identify the different functions included in Activities of Daily Living and Instrumental Activites of Daily Living.
How to utilize the health care team to assist your patients maximize functional status.

4. Geriatric Physical Assessment:What is Normal and What is Not
Recognize the challenges to a quality geriatric physical examination.
Distinguish between clinical signs of normal aging and pathological findings in physical examination through a photographic review.

5. Successful Aging-How to Stay Sharp and Fit as the Birthdays fly by
Discover top tips for keeping a sharp mind and body for yourself and your aging patients.

6. Polypharmacy: More is not Better
Recognize polypharmacy and prioritize treatment medications
Select practical regimens for improved medication compliance.
Employ geriatric prescribing prinicples such as "start low and go slow" to lessen adverse outcomes.

7. Preventative Care for Older Patients: Get your shots and don't fall!
Implement current adult immunization schedule for older patients
Analyze the root cause of falls and implement appropriate preventative strategies.

8. Common Childhood Infections: Diagnosis and Treatment
Identify an approach to evaluate and manage infants/children with fever
Describe bacterial and viral illnesses of the respiratory tree with a focus on epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment.
List the characteristic features and describe the clinical courses of common exanthems.

9. Health Risk Assessment and Prevention in Childhood
Use evidence-based recommendations and guidelines to establish standardized procedures, including standardized protocols to screen child and adolescent patients
Evaluate current clinical practices for alignment with updated evidence-based clinical preventive guidelines from the AAP and USPSTF.
Develop a strategy to facilitate the adoption of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines.

10. Adolescent Immunizations
Identify available vaccine administration strategies and resources, available patient education resources, vaccine alert systems, and current immunization schedules.
Use evidence-based recommendations and guidelines to establish standardized vaccine administration procedures, including standardized protocols to screen for immunizations during patient encounters.
Counsel patients, and parents of children, using available patient education resources and motivational interviewing about vaccine safety and efficacy.
Participate in available childhood immunization programs, and administer using a standardized process.

11. HPV: Prevention and Management
Discuss the role of HPV in cancer
Review the available strategies for HPV prevention
Apply USPSTF recommendations on screening for cervical dysplasia during routine office visits.
Use evidence-based recommendations to evaluate women who have abnormal Pap test results to determine appropriate treatment or referral

12. Contraception: Beyond Condoms, Pills, and Sterilization
Describe principles of patient selection regarding contraceptives
Discuss the indications/contraindications for various contraceptive methods
Appraise recommendations for use of long-acting reversible contraceptives
State the options and indications regarding methods of emergency contraception

13. Menopause - The Heat Goes On!
Develop an approach to evaluate the patient experiencing vasomotor instability.
Identify the options for treatment of the patient with vasomotor instability.
Provide patient education on the potential risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

14. Breast Cancer: Prevention and Screening
Discuss the epidemiology of breast cancer.
Review factors in breast cancer prevention.
Use an evidence-based approach to recommendations on screening for breast cancer.
State the USPSTF recommendations on screening for breast cancer.

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Instructors:
David Glenn Weismiller, MD, ScM, FAAFP
Allison Batchelor, MD

CME Credit:
Physicians:  14 Hours
Physician Assistants:  14 Hours
Nurses:  14 Hours

Self Assessment Module (SAM): No

Specialty Audience:
Family Medicine    Internal Medicine    Pediatrics

CME Sam Course #19204

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