Title: 2024 Hospital and Internal Medicine: A Clinical Review of Common Problems – Day 1 (Physician)

Faculty: Kendal Williams, M.D., M.P.H..; Lawrence H. Brent, M.D.

Release Date: 7/1/2024 Expiration Date: 7/1/2027

Day 1

Update on the Management of COPD and Asthma in the Hospitalized Patient
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Perform initial management and stabilization of the patient with asthma or COPD
exacerbation and distinguish between the strategies for each condition.
• Develop an evidence-based strategy for the management of COPD based on the GOLD
criteria.
• Prescribe an effective therapeutic strategy for asthma, taking into account recent studies
on the safety and effectiveness of various agents.
• Detect conditions that may mimic asthma or COPD in the clinical setting.

Overview of the Inpatient Management of Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Review the clinical presentation and categorization of common skin and soft tissue
infections.
• Differentiate common non-infectious conditions that can mimic skin and soft tissue
infections.
• Based on evidence from the CDC and standard of care publications, recognize and
incorporate the changing epidemiology and resistance patterns impacting skin and soft
tissue infections into therapeutic plans.
• Recognize the types of drug-associated rashes and formulate an effective treatment plan
for each.

Rheumatoid Arthritis
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Demonstrate the role of genetics, environmental factors, immune cells, and
proinflammatory cytokines in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis.
• Illustrate the clinical features, extra-articular manifestations, and complications of
rheumatoid arthritis.
• Utilize and compare various methods of measuring disease activity in rheumatoid
arthritis.
• Compare and contrast the mechanisms of action of current and emerging therapies for
RA and prescribe treatment for patients with rheumatoid arthritis according to ACR
guidelines

Osteoarthritis
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Employ the history and physical exam to make an accurate diagnosis of osteoarthritis
• Differentiate osteoarthritis (structural) from rheumatoid arthritis (inflammatory)
• Recommend and prescribe non-pharmacologic and pharmacologic therapies for patients
with osteoarthritis according the ACR recommendations

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:

• Evaluate the varied clinical presentations and manifestations in the course of systemic
lupus erythematosus.
• Order and interpret laboratory testing used in the diagnosis of systemic lupus
erythematosus in accordance with ACR Guidelines.
• Monitor and employ treatment options for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus
according to EULAR recommendations and evidenced based studies.