2024 Primary Care: Endocrinology/Rheumatology/Geriatrics/Neurology – Day 1 (Physician)

$149.00

5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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    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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