Title: Primary Care: Endocrinology/Rheumatology/Geriatrics/Neurology – Day 1 (Physician)
Faculty: Lawrence H. Brent, M.D.; Stephen Winters, M.D.; Danya Khoujah, MBBS, MEHP
Release Date: 7/1/2024 Expiration Date: 7/1/2027
Day 1
Approach to the Patient with Rheumatic Diseases
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Demonstrate the importance of the history and physical exam including patterns of joints
- involvement and extra-articular findings in evaluating patients with rheumatic diseases.
- Distinguish inflammatory (i.e. rheumatoid arthritis) and structural arthritis (i.e. osteoarthritis).
- Differentiate patterns of articular involvement associated with different arthritis.
- Utilize laboratory and radiological studies in the evaluation of patients with rheumatic diseases.
Lyme Disease and Other Topics in Rheatologyum
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Apply CDC and Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease.
- Evaluate skin rashes as manifestations of systemic diseases.
- Using the Guidelines of the Bone Research Society of the United Kingdom to prescribe appropriate therapy for patients with Paget’s disease of the Bone.
The Silent Killer: Delirium
Attendees of this presentation will be able to:
- Identify evidence-based methods to screen for and diagnose delirium in the outpatient setting
- Conceptualize a step wise approach to Identifying the cause of delirium
- Verbalize the magnitude and Implications of a diagnosis of delirium
The 5-minute Goals of Care Conversation
Attendees of this presentation will be able to:
- Describe the role of providers in addressing goals of care conversations in an outpatient setting
- Differentiate between a surrogate, next-of-kin, and medical power of attorney
- List the steps for a focused goals of care conversation
Drugging the Elderly: Pearls and Pitfalls of Geriatric Pharmacology
Attendees of this presentation will be able to:
- List 3 common drug errors in geriatric patients
- Verbalize the deleterious effect of polypharmacy in older patients
- Discuss at least one method for practice improvement in medication prescription in older patient
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