
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
Dr. Martin's Topics
- My Errors in Medicine Can Help You
This session focuses on Type 1 and Type 2 thinking, how cognitive biases lead to common diagnostic errors, and provides strategies to prevent them.
- Chief Complaint of Chest Pain, So Now How Do I Work It Up?
This talk reviews clinical scoring systems, guidelines, and the role of chest CTs, cardiac CTs, and stress tests in evaluating patients with chest pain to rule out emergency causes.
- A “Breathtaking Lecture,” Asthma and COPD Update
This lecture covers the diagnosis and management of asthma and COPD, including acute and chronic therapies for a range of illnesses from mild to severe exacerbations.
- “Stop Coughing on Me,” Pneumonia and Bronchitis Updates
Learn up-to-date recommendations for diagnosing and treating pneumonia and bronchitis, including changes in antibiotic choices and microbiology based on recent IDSA/ATS guidelines.
- Does Patient Experience Matter?
This session discusses the economic impact of patient satisfaction scores and provides simple, actionable skills to improve the patient experience and service recovery.
- Is It Only a Skin and Soft Tissue Infection?
This talk covers how to recognize the depth and severity of various skin and soft tissue infections, including the criteria for diagnosis and when surgery is needed for severe cases.
- “This is COVID Jeopardy!”
A review of the latest information on COVID-19, including current recommendations for vaccines, prevention, diagnosis, treatment for acute illness, and unusual sequelae.
- Applying Leadership Literature to Medicine
This session explores how to apply principles from leadership literature to medical practice, distinguishing between leadership and management to build well-functioning teams.
Dr. Sachs' Topics
- Workplace Violence
- Create a plan to apply the principles of de-escalation and safe contingency plans when confronting a potentially violent patient.
- Physician Burnout and Depression
- Cite the literature documenting the burden and exploring the causes of burnout and depression in physicians.
- Improving Provider Well-Being: Personal and Institutional Interventions
- Devise a plan to address personal and institutional wellness at work.
- Challenging Interactions in the Medical Setting
- Assess what makes an interaction challenging and plan optimal ways to meet those challenges.
- Disease Prevention: Tobacco Cessation
- Develop confidence in addressing tobacco use and how to engage with patients to discuss quitting, decrease the harm, and improve health.
- Disease Prevention: Alcohol Misuse, Health Consequences, and Patient Counseling
- Be confident in screening for and addressing unsafe alcohol use and engaging with patients to discuss ways to decrease harm from unsafe alcohol use.
- Second Victim Syndrome
- Define SVS and discuss alternative appropriate monikers
- Summarize background rates of SVS
- Describe ways to attenuate suffering and facilitate recovery
- Review organized response structures
- Evidence-Based Nutrition - Hype Versus Data
- Review evidence-based hierarchy for recommendations and point out the lack of high-quality data on nutrition and health outcomes
- Identify preferred macronutrient options for optimal, targeted treatment, and prevention of disease

















