
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
7 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
16.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
$995 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Pharmacists, & Dentists$795 for Nurse Practitioners
$595 for Nurses, Students & Others
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- The Dark Night: When to use Antibiotics and Steroids
- Describe Appropriate use of Antibiotics and Steroids in Common Outpatient Situations
- Fainting, Spells and Falling Out: Initial Evaluation of Syncope
- Identify Initial Steps in Evaluating Syncope And Describe Appropriate use of Lab, Ekg, and Other Studies
- Preventive Screening for CVD And Cancer
- Identify Appropriate Populations and Screening Intervals for CVD, Cholesterol, and Common Cancer Screening Procedures
- Mission Impossible: Exercise and Diet in CVD Prevention and Mortality
- Describe the Biological Effects of Diet And Exercise on Common Cell and Physiologic Functions
- Not Enough Chefs in the Kitchen: Team Care in Outpatient Diabetes Management
- Describe the Outpatient Primary Care Team Model in Diabetes, and Identify the Most Helpful Health Professionals for Focusing on Factors for Improvement of Diabetes Care.
- Every Breath You Take: Update on Asthma Management
- Describe the classification of asthma according to symptoms and spirometry values. Identify the recommended initial treatment of patients with asthma for each level of severity.
- Update on COPD Management
- Describe the classification of severity of COPD according to symptoms and spirometry values
- Identify the recommended initial treatment of patients with COPD according to severity
- Bugs and Drugs: Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia
- Describe the Initial Treatment of Pneumonia According to Severity, Co-Morbidities, and Antibiotic Appropriateness
- Whose Liife Is It Anyway? Everything You Need To Know About Advanced Directives
- Distinguish physician paternalism from patient autonomy from partnerships
- Apply knowledge to challenging end of life case scenarios.
- Differentiating Dementias
- Distinguish various dementias through patient history, clinical symptoms, physical findings, and biomarkers.
- Get Smart about Diabetes in the Geriatric Patient
- Recognize differences in treatment strategies and goals in the diabetic geriatric patient
- How to be A Gene-ious - Pharmogenomic Testing in Clinical Practice
- Interpret and use genetic testing in clinical practice
- C dificille, mui dificil
- Recognize risk factors for C. difficiile.
- Apply antibiotic stewardship to your patients
- Restate the 2018 best practice guidelines for C. diificile for management and prevention of C. difficile.
- Driving Miss Daisy
- Give examples of aging changes that may affect driving skills
- Help, I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up! - Fall prevention and gait assessment.
- Apply in office techniques to recognize patients at risk for falls.
- Identify medications that increase fall risk
- The Ten Commandments of Medical Ethics
- Describe how using medical ethics can help with decision making in clinical practice
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.