COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
4 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
16.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
$995 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Pharmacists, & Dentists$795 for Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners
$595 for Nurses, Students & Others
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Why is obesity everywhere and so hard to manage? Rational management considerations and strategies.
- Understand the demographics and penetration of weight issues as you see in your practice, inclusive of co-morbidities seen
- Explain the impact of obesity in the lives of your patients
- Understanding obesity surgery. Understanding the procedures, risks, and benefits.
- Discuss the historical and current bariatric interventional and surgical options for the non-surgeon
- Understand the potential use of these interventions for weight control
- Discuss the risks and benefits of bariatric surgery and treatment
- Discuss the goals, efficacy, and limitations of bariatric surgery
- How to manage bariatric surgery patients post and peri-operatively: behavioral changes, supplements, and understanding issues and complications that may arise.
- Effectively engage your bariatric surgery patients in their weight loss efforts
- Develop a patient-driven and empathetic approach to guiding your bariatric surgery patients in their health and weight-loss pursuits
- Create an interprofessional team to better serve your bariatric surgery patients' weight loss needs
- How to talk to your patients about their weight issues. How to guide them in their weight loss pursuits.
- Effectively engage your patients in their weight loss efforts
- Develop a patient-driven and empathetic approach to guiding your patients in their health and weight-loss pursuits
- Create an interprofessional team to better serve your patients' weight loss needs
- Myths vs. Science in Nutritional Trends: Approach for the Medical Professional
- Discussion of how to scientifically navigate the nutritional maze of popular diets and nutritional trends; The potential nutrition benefits and pitfalls of various dietary preferences and related patient concerns; Ways nutrition affects healthy lifestyles
- Cutting Edge Nutrition Innovation: A Personalized Approach
- How to critically evaluate nutrition tools that patients can use to promote optimal health; Review the “latest and greatest” nutrition applications and technologies that can be used to greatly improve patients' nutrition and health pursuits; Creation of personalized health plans based on unique, patient-specific plans, tests, and analyses
- Medical Nutrition Therapy: A Practical Approach to Diet and Disease
- Science-based Nutrition and Behavioral Guide to Treating “The Big” Medical Problems that are taking over your practice; Essential (and proven) strategies to help guide patients' diet and behaviors in the treatment of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and GI health; Travel through the google-mess of what patients hear and why they turn to these as resources; The science-based strategies and resources that can be implemented to help patients take rational control of their health
- Nutrition Through the Ages: Prevention and Potential Pitfalls
- A working guide for a nutritional and behavioral rubric to understand what is expected (and what may undermine) optimal health from infancy through the elderly; Barriers patients face in implementing and sticking with nutritional strategies
- Update in C. difficile Colitis
- Articulate the growing epidemiological concern of C. difficile colitis
- Identify and treat mild, moderate and severe cases of C. difficile colitis
- Describe novel treatments in the treatment of recurrent C. difficile colitis
- Update in the Assessment and Treatment of COPD Exacerbations
- Articulate the growing epidemiological concern of COPD
- Classify patients with COPD using the 2023 GOLD (Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease) guidelines
- Describe treatments in the management of acute COPD exacerbation
- Update in the Management of Heart Failure Exacerbations
- Explain the impact of heart failure in the US
- Explain the evidence informing the 2022 AHA/ACC/HFSA Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure
- Hospitalists and the Opioid Epidemic
- State key statistics regarding the opioid epidemic in the US
- Articulate the drivers that contributed to the opioid epidemic
- Describe 7 key steps for safe prescribing practices
- Update in the Identification and Treatment of Sepsis
- Explain the impact of sepsis in the US
- Articulate the main recommendations of the 2021 Surviving Sepsis Campaign Guidelines
- How Hospitalists Drive Value in Patient Care
- Define value in healthcare
- Articulate the urgency to bend the cost curve
- Explain several evidence-based practical solutions to improve value in practice today
- How Hospitalists Drive Quality in Patient Care
- Articulate the patient and institutional impact on an early discharge initiative
- Strategize how to formulate quality improvement projects that impact patient care
- Recognize challenges to an early discharge initiative and other QI projects and develop adaptive strategies
- Update in the Management of Acute Liver Failure
- Explain the impact of acute liver failure in the US
- Apply the latest guidelines from the AASLD position paper on acute liver failure
- Describe when to refer patients for transplantation
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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.