COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
14.0 Contact Hours
6 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
$895 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Pharmacists, & Dentists$695 for Physician Assistants & Nurse Practitioners
$495 for Nurses, Students & Others
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Osteoporosis
- Evaluate screening recommendations and apply them to everyday practice
- Utilize therapies that include bisphosphonates, PTH and inhibitors of the RANK/RANKL/OPG system
- Review the current controversies and clinical studies regarding Vitamin D
- Better advise patients on calcium supplementation
- MCI and Alzheimer's Disease
- Define Mild Cognitive Impairment in both amnestic and non-amnestic disease states
- Understand the potential implications of early diagnosis of dementia for patient care outcomes
- Describe the clinical manifestations of Alzheimer's disease
- Evaluate patients for symptoms of cognitive and functional loss
- Apply appropriate drug and non-drug interventions for patients with dementia
- Counsel families and caregivers at all stages of disease
- To Sleep: Perchance to Dream
- Describe the age-related changes in sleep
- Evaluate the psychiatric, medical, and neurological causes of sleep problems
- Implement office-based and objective methods for evaluating sleep disordered breathing
- Intervene with appropriate treatments for complaints of insomnia including CBTI as first line guideline directed care
- Management of Constipation
- Understand the common barriers that hinder the optimal management of chronic constipation in health care settings
- Define primary as well as secondary causes of hypertension in the older adult
- Provide a rational strategy to manage constipation based on current best evidence of the drug classes currently available
- Where Pain Management Meets Addiction Medicine
- Understand the pathogenesis of pain
- Apply recent guidelines in pain management including calculations for Morphine Milligram Equivalent Units
- Choose appropriate drug therapy and multimodal interventions for the relief of pain
- Consider the metabolic breakdown of different narcotics and their contribution to serotonin syndrome
- Employ newer tools to determine the potential for opioid dependence
- Pulmonary Disease in the Elderly
- Evaluate current trends in pulmonary disease in the elderly
- Review current immunization guidelines and supportive therapy
- Include new therapies like LAMA/LABA combination inhalers and roflumilast in the management of COPD
- Implement the appropriate use of nebulizers, MDIs and oxygen
- Apply guideline directed care to patients with COPD
- Nutritional Supplements: When East meets West
- Understand that adequate nutrition is a prerequisite for the maintenance of good health and optimum efficiency
- Find the on-line resources that provide the best evidence in support of dietary and nutritional supplements
- Identify targeted supplements for heart disease, vision, depression/mood, and urologic disorders
- Council patients on the risks of certain therapies in the presence of other disease
- Improve your working knowledge of the Mediterranean diet
- Critical Review of the 2016 Surviving Sepsis Campaign
- The Surviving Sepsis Campaign was recently updated. Realize the important points that impact patient care.
- Fungal Infections in the ICU
- Currently different organizations vary in their recommendations on when to use the available anti-fungal therapies.
- ARDS Clinical Update
- Upon completion of this lecture, clinicians should be able understand and implement cost effective infection control measures in their practice.
- Management of Embolic Stroke
- Currently different organizations vary in their recommendations on treatment of CVAs and related complications.
- Critically review the management of acute embolic strokes.
- Infection control practices in the ICU: What is the evidence?
- Upon completion of this lecture, clinicians should be able understand and implement cost effective infection control measures in their practice.
- Critical Care Controversies: Transfusion in the ICUs
- Identify the appropriate transfusion trigger in the critically ill and the risks associated with transfusion.
- Also discussion transfusion practices for massive transfusions.
- Ethical cases in the Critically III
- Understand how to best integrate non-standard advanced directives into the care of critically ill patients.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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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.