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Update on Indications, Interactions and Complications in the Use of Pharmaceuticals

Royal Caribbean's Navigator of the Seas

7-Night Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Conference
from Rome, Italy
June 9 - 16, 2013

BIAS FREE CME - No Commercial Support was provided for this CME activity.

14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
14 ANCC Contact Hours

Course Fees:
Physicians - $695
Other Professionals - $450

Course Fee Cancellation Policy
30 days or more - None; 7-29 days - 50%; less than 7 days - 100%

IMPORTANT NOTE: All conferees, their families, and guests must book their cruise within the CME meeting group through Continuing Education, Inc./University at Sea® at 800-422-0711 or by registering online. This ensures our company can provide conference services and complimentary social amenities to all meeting participants and their guests. Thank you for your cooperation.
Faculty

George E. MacKinnon, Ph.D., R.Ph. Dr. MacKinnon is the Founding Dean and Professor of the College of Pharmacy at Roosevelt University in Chicago. His previous appointments include the positions of Department Chairman, Associate/Assistant Dean, and Vice-President for Academic Affairs with the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, pharmaceutical industry researcher, tenured faculty member, and assistant hospital pharmacy administrator. Over the years he has been active in developing collaborative practice models with physicians and pharmacy practice faculty as well as establishing post-graduate training programs for pharmacists.

Dr. MacKinnon completed his pharmacy education at the University of Wisconsin Madison and completed two years post-graduate residency training at the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. He earned a Ph.D. in Higher Education from Loyola University in Chicago.

Karen MacKinnon, R.Ph. Karen MacKinnon is presently practicing pharmacy as a community practitioner. Her previous appointments have included, Assistant Professor in the Departments of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacy Practice at Midwestern University Colleges of Pharmacy and Director of Professional Laboratories in two new colleges of pharmacy. She has practiced in institutional (St. Louis University Hospital and St. Josephs Hospital) and community pharmacy practice.

Ms. MacKinnon received her pharmacy degree from the University of Wisconsin Madison and completed her post-graduate training at Meriter Medical Center in Madison.
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Target Audience

Pharmacists, Primary Care Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants

Program Purpose / Objectives

  1. Strategies to Reduce Drug Abuse (2 hrs)
    • Describe the demographics of prescription and OTC abuse.
    • Identify the dangers associated with the nonmedical use of prescription and OTC medications.
    • Recognize the patient characteristics and techniques that may suggest the possibility of diversion/mis-use.
    • Identify ways to prevent medication abuse in your patients and drug diversion within your practice.
    • Compare and contrast challenges with Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and behind the counter status.
  2. Self-Care: From Diagnosis to Treatment to Monitoring (3hrs)
    • Define self-care and describe patient’s attitude about self-care.
    • Discuss the pharmacist role in educating patients about self-care.
    • Summarize the pharmacist’s role in assessing and counseling self-treating patients.
    • Outline strategies for assessing and counseling patients on the use of OTC products.
    • Describe patient’s attitudes about monitoring and diagnostics for self-care.
  3. Medication Compliance, Adherence, and Persistency (2hrs)
    • Define medication compliance, adherence, and persistency.
    • Identify strategies to promote medications adherence.
    • Describe the impact of poor adherence on clinical and economic outcomes for patient and stakeholders.
    • Debate the rationale for strategies among patients and prescribers to improve adherence.
  4. Innovations of Personal Technologies in Health Care (2hrs)
    • Describe the benefits and limitations of new technologies for patient care.
    • Identify new personal health care technologies and the impact they may have on patient outcomes.
    • Recognize the importance of all health care providers sharing of data.
    • Explain the new paradigm where patients control access to information to healthcare providers and associated challenges.
  5. Pharmaceutical Regulatory Update and Key Product Approvals (2hrs)
    • Describe the major content and format changes to prescription drug labeling and the rationale for the changes.
    • Outline the FDA's role in post-marketing safety surveillance for medical products.
    • Identify ways MedWatch disseminates safety information about medical products.
    • Compare and contrast key recent drug approvals with those already used for specific conditions.
    • Discuss important patient counseling and therapeutic monitoring considerations for new drugs approvals.
  6. Medication Error: A Call to Action (2 hrs)
    • Discuss the impact of medication errors on the healthcare system.
    • List common sources for miscommunication in health care that can lead to potentially serious medical errors.
    • Describe the role of the health care practitioner in monitoring medication safety in patients.
    • Review pertinent findings from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Reports related to medication errors.
    • Define what constitutes a medication error and list the most common types of errors that occur.
    • Describe the necessary points within the medication use system in which technology can be employed to reduce medical errors within health care.
  7. Collaborative Practice in Health Care (1hrs)
    • Describe the benefits and limitations of collaborative practice models in various patient care settings.
    • Recognize the importance of aligning incentives in a “pay for performance” model that includes all providers.
    • Describe the elements necessary (patient data) necessary to support improvements in health outcomes.
    • Discuss the rationale for collaborative models of care that deliver enhanced patient and economic outcomes.


After attending the following session individuals should be able to:
  • Identify ways to prevent medication abuse in your patients and drug diversion within your practice.
  • Outline strategies for assessing and counseling patients on the use of OTC products.
  • Describe patient’s attitudes about monitoring and diagnostics for self-care.
  • Describe the impact of poor adherence on clinical and economic outcomes for patient and stakeholders.
  • Discuss new personal health care technologies and the impact they may have on patient outcomes.
  • Describe the mechanism of action and indications for newly approved drugs.
  • Identify challenges and safety concerns regarding the medication approval, post-market surveillance processes, and FDA activities.
  • Describe common sources for miscommunication in health care that can lead to potentially serious medical errors.
  • Describe the benefits and limitations of collaborative practice models in various patient care settings.

      • ACPE Credits for Pharmacists are Pending Approval

Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.
Accreditation
Accredited Continuing Medical Education Accreditation: Continuing Education, Inc is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Designation: Continuing Education, Inc designates this live activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Creditstm. Each physician should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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Accredited status does not imply endorsement by Continuing Education, Inc/University at Sea or ANCC of any commercial products displayed or used with an activity.
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Cruise Itinerary

DATE
PORT OF CALL
ARRIVE
DEPART
Sun Jun 9
Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy
-
5:00pm
Mon Jun 10
Sicily (Messina), Italy
10:00am
7:00pm
Tue Jun 11
At Sea Cruising
Lectures 9:00am - 5:00pm
-
-
Wed Jun 12
Athens (Piraeus), Greece
6:00am
6:00pm
Thu Jun 13
Ephesus (Kusadasi), Turkey
7:00am
5:00pm
Fri Jun 14
Chiana (Souda), Crete
6:30am
3:00pm
Sat Jun 15
At Sea Cruising
Lectures 8:00am - 4:00pm
-
-
Sun Jun 16
Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy
5:00am
-

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