
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™12 ACPE Credits
12.0 Up to 12 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
5 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- Evaluation of Abnormal Liver Tests
- Differentiate between tests of liver function and liver injury
- Use a diagnostic algorithm in the work-up of abnormal liver tests
- Hepatitis C management
- Understand screening guidelines for HCV
- Understand the natural history of disease progression
- Use treatment guidelines for chronic hepatitis C patients
- Diagnosis and treatment of Chronic Hepatitis B
- Describe HBV serology for diagnosis and management
- Recognize at risk populations for vaccination
- Apply practice guidelines for management and treatment of hepatitis B infection
- Diagnosis and management of Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Understand the natural history of NAFLD
- Use basic diagnostic approaches for identify patients at risk with risk for advanced disease
- Employ current approaches to management of NAFLDs
- Management Considerations in End-Stage Liver Disease
- Recognize common complications associated with cirrhosis
- Understand management options in patients with end-stage liver disease
- Use effective screening and surveillance methods to detect complications of cirrhosis
- Drug-Induced Liver Injury (DILI)
- Recognize different types of liver injury
- Describe common drugs and herbals implicated in liver injury
- Understand management approaches to patients with drug-induced liver injury
- Screening for Colon and rectal cancer
- Improve the outcome and cost effectiveness of screening for Colon Cancer with new guidelines and new screening tests
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
- To improve cost effectiveness of management of IBS
- To Explain current management of IBS, Constipation and Chronic abdominal pain and how they differ. and the place of new medications
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- To share on going changes in treatment of Crohn's disease and Ulcerative colitis.
- Inflammatory Esophageal Diseases
- The understanding of new etiologies of Chest pain, heartburn and dysphagia
- The place of the relationship of Barrett's Esophagus to Chronic reflux Esophageal cancer in perspective
- Peptic Ulcer disease
- To explain new recommendations in the prevention and treatment of Peptic Ulcer disease and its complications
- Common Medical Problems in patients with Chronic Gastrointestinal diseases
- To enhance the ability of the primary care doctor to provide appropriate preventive care in patients with chronic Gastrointestinal disease
- Chronic and recurring diarrhea
- Illustrate the place of the primary care physicians in the diagnosis and management of chronic diarrhea