CME Sam Continuing Medical Education and Self Assessment Modules

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

Current Topics in Primary Care and Palliative Care
Monday, April 8, 2019 - Saturday, April 13, 2019

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 Majesty of the Seas
5-Night Havana Cuba & Key West Cruise Conference
Departs Fort Lauderdale, Florida (FL)
United States

Phone:

Description:
Topics:

1. Health Promotion: Encouraging a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit
Assess the patient's current state of physical, psychological, and spiritual health.
Analyze the patient?s current dietary and exercise practices.
Discuss an individualized health-promotion strategy for each patient.

2. "Oh, My Aching Head!": Evaluation and Treatment of Migraine, Tension-Type, and Cluster Headaches
Discuss the appropriate use of brain imaging in evaluating patients with headache.
Describe the appropriate use of abortive and preventive medications in the treatment of migraine.
Describe the distinguishing clinical characteristics of tension-type and cluster headaches.

3. Male Sexual Disorders: Hypogonadism, Erectile, and Ejaculatory Dysfunction
Elicit a through, non-judgmental sexual history.
Describe appropriate laboratory and radiologic testing in the evaluation of male sexual problems.
Discuss the effects, risks, and benefits of testosterone replacement therapy.

4. Somatoform Disorders: Illness as a Way of Life
Recognize the key symptoms, signs, and clinical presentation of somatizing patients.
Define the concept of alexithymia (the inability of some patients to express emotion in verbal terms).
Develop an effective management strategy for somatizing patients.

5. Hypertension: "What Goes Up Must Come Down"
Describe the appropriate measurement and classification of hypertension.
Discuss the laboratory testing and imaging needed to diagnose the most common causes of secondary hypertension.
Describe the major classes of anti-hypertensive treatment and discuss the particular type of patient likely to benefit from each class of medication.

6. Enhancing Clinician-Patient Communication: Becoming a Healer
Distinguish the technical , biomedical aspects of the clinician's role from the personal and psychosocial aspects of care.
Describe specific attitudes and values needed to create a healing environment with patients.
Apply techniques for establishing and maintaining rapport with patients and enhancing clinician-patient communication.

7. The Faith Factor: Practicing Spiritually-Sensitive Care
Elicit a spiritual history in an ethically-appropriate manner.
Analyze the physiologic, psychological, social, and lifestyle effects of religious beliefs upon health outcomes.
Describe the spectrum of possible interventions available for addressing patients" spiritual needs.

8. Choosing Wisely
Learn which tests and procedures are still worth doing according to the specific specialty societies

9. Osteoporosis
Learn to evaluate and treat patients with Osteoporosis in the Primary Care setting.

10. Dementia
Learn to evaluate and treat patients with Dementia

11. Common Outpatient Problems
Learn about evaluating and treating Anemias, Plantar Fasciitis and Rotator Cuff Syndromes in the Primary Care setting

12. Hospice and Palliative Care
become familiar with both Palliative Care and the Hospice programs, and learn which patients qualify for which levels of care.

13. Case Studies in Primary Care
Learn to make common diagnoses from atypical presentations.

14. Impaired Health Professionals
Learn to recognize Impaired Health Professionals and become familiar with resources available to help them.

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Instructors:
Jeffrey M. Kagan, MD, CMD, FACP
Dale A. Matthews, MD, FACP

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

Self Assessment Module (SAM): No

Specialty Audience:
Emergency Medicine    Family Medicine    Internal Medicine    Pediatrics

CME Sam Course #19221

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