Title: 2023 Family Medicine: Common Challenges in Internal Medicine & Geriatrics – Day 1 (Non-Physician)

Faculty: Michael A. Malone, M.D.; Gary H. Oberlender, M.D., F.A.C.P; David A. Horowitz, M.D.

Release Date: 7/1/2023 Expiration Date: 7/1/2026

Day 1

Hyperlipidemia and CV Disease Prevention – A Review of the Literature and Recent AHA Guidelines. (Malone)

Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: ^{EBM, GL, COMP}

1. Create a diagnostic and treatment plan for patients based on the current evidence and AHA Guidelines.
2. Explain similarities and differences between the most recent and previous guidelines.
3. Identify areas of strength and weakness in the recent AHA Guidelines.
4. Utilize the most recent cholesterol guidelines at the point of care.

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome. (Malone)

Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: ^{EBM, COMP}

1. Apply an evidence-based approach to the identification of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
2. Detect clues that can help identify likely etiologies for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
3. Construct a differential diagnosis for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
4. Determine which patients would benefit from nerve conduction studies.
5. Discriminate the severity of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
6. Use EBM to select an appropriate treatment plan for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

Delirium in the Elderly – Current Concepts (Oberlender)

Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: ^{EBM, COMP}

1. Specify diagnostic features and common causes of delirium in seniors.
2. Distinguish the causes of persistent delirium.
3. Use evidence based medicine to formulate treatment approaches to delirious seniors.
4. Recognize treatment options for intermittent agitation using evidence based medicine.

Evaluation and Treatment of Dementia in Seniors (Oberlender)

Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to: ^{EBM, COMP}

1. Determine the common causes of cognitive dysfunction and dementia in seniors.
2. Develop an evidence based evaluation of seniors with cognitive dysfunction.
3. Evaluate the relative risks and benefits of available treatment options for dementia in seniors.
4. Distinguish the central role of caregiver education and support in treating seniors with dementia.

Update Diabetes Mellitus Type II (Malone)

Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

1.  Devise individualized therapeutic goals for   patients with Diabetes Mellitus Type II
2.   Formulate a systematic approach for the use of oral hypoglycemic agents in patients with type 2 diabetes.
3.  Specify the clinical situations in which insulin would be recommended to treat type 2 diabetes
4.  Develop the therapeutic treatment plan for preventing diabetic complications