COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ANCC Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
Dr. Clum's Topics
- Asthma
- Review the prevalence and economic impact of asthma.
- Review the pathophysiology of asthma.
- Review strategies for management of asthma patients with acute respiratory failure.
- Review expert consensus recommendations for assessing asthma control.
- Review expert consensus recommendations for long-term asthma management.
- Review data on recently FDA-approved medications and bronchoscopy interventions used to treat severe persistent asthma.
- Briefly look at medications under investigation for asthma treatment.
- COPD
- Understand current GOLD Guidelines for Staging COPD.
- Apply GOLD Guidelines for COPD management.
- Understand and apply the ACCP and Canadian Thoracic Society published guidelines for prevention of acute exacerbations of COPD.
- Understand the data that shaped these guidelines as related to:
- Medication Recommendations.
- Non-Medication Recommendations.
- Understand and apply data on non-surgical lung volume reduction in patients with COPD.
- Understand and apply data on non-invasive ventilation for stable COPD management.
- Interstitial Lung Disease: Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis and Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Understand the broad differential diagnosis of diffuse parenchymal lung disease.
- Understand the ATS/ERS diagnostic criteria for IPF and CT findings characteristic of IPF.
- Understand the various clinical measures predictive of survival in IPF.
- Understand data that resulted in FDA approval for two drugs for treatment of IPF.
- Apply the ATS/ERS guidelines for treatment of IPF.
- Understand the treatment of progressive pulmonary fibrosis in non-IPF fibrotic lung disease.
- Understand the indications for treatment of pulmonary hypertension related to fibrotic lung disease (Group 3 PAH).
- Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis
- Understand the pathogenesis of bronchiectasis.
- Know how to determine the etiology of bronchiectasis.
- Better understand how to manage patients with this chronic medical condition.
- Understand how to manage patients with acute exacerbations of bronchiectasis.
- Pulmonary Embolism: Treating Patients on Risk Stratification. Understanding and Applying the Literature and Evidence-Based Guidelines
- Understand the Risk Stratification for Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
- Understand Clinical Tools, Radiological Imaging, and Laboratory Markers Used in Risk Stratification of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
- Understand Current ACCP Recommendations for Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
- Incorporate 2026 AHA/ACC/ACCP/ACEP/CHEST/SCAI/SHM/SIR/SVM/SVN Guideline for the Evaluation and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism in Adults.
- Understand Data on Treatment Outcomes of Patients with High and Intermediate Risk Acute Pulmonary Embolism Treated with Thrombolysis, Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis, and Standard Anticoagulation.
- Understand Data on Long-Term Follow-up from Patients with High and Intermediate Risk PE Treated with Thrombolysis versus Standard Anticoagulation.
- Understand Current ACCP Recommendation for Duration of Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
- Pulmonary Nodule and Lung Cancer Screening: Understanding and Applying Guideline Recommendations
- Describe characteristics of pulmonary nodules that influence clinical suspicion for benign versus malignant probability.
- Understand and apply the Fleischner Society Guideline recommendations for following incidental pulmonary nodules.
- Understand and apply Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines.
- Understand Lung-RADS: the structured reporting system for interpretation of lung cancer screening CT examinations.
- Understand the difference in the Fleischner Guidelines and Lung Cancer Screening guidelines as related to nodule management.
- Understand the key elements of a lung cancer screening program.
- Discuss the available technology and role of pulmonology in the diagnosis of cancer.
- Briefly discuss the staging and treatment of lung cancer.
- Acute Hypoxic Respiratory Failure and Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Understand the current definition of ARDS.
- Recognize risk factors for developing ARDS and illnesses in the differential diagnosis of ARDS.
- Understand data on the use of non-invasive ventilation and high flow nasal cannula for the management of patients with ARDS.
- Understand current recommendations regarding mechanical ventilation and management of patients with ARDS.
- Understand data on alternative treatments in ARDS, including: prone positioning, ECMO, paralytics, and vasodilators.
- Understand how this data has shaped the most recent European Society of Intensive Care Medicine Guidelines on Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Management.
- Sleep Apnea Treatment Options: PAP, Pacers and Beyond
- Understand the scope/impact of sleep apnea: Prevalence and Impact on Various Co-Morbid Conditions.
- Distinguish between obstructive and central sleep apnea.
- Understand the alternative treatment options for sleep apnea:
- Weight Loss
- Pharmacologic
- Positional Sleep Therapy
- Surgical Interventions
- Upper Airway Stimulators
- Phrenic Nerve Pacers
Dr. Martin's Topics
- My Errors in Medicine Can Help You!
- Chief Complaint of Chest Pain, So Now How Do I Work It Up?
- A "Breathtaking Lecture," Asthma and COPD Update
- "Stop Coughing on Me," Pneumonia and Bronchitis Updates
- Does Patient Experience Matter?
- Is It Only a Skin and Soft Tissue Infection?
- "This Is COVID Jeopardy!"
- Applying Leadership Literature to Medicine






































