
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ANCC Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
- Evaluation and management of Osteoarthritis.
- dentify that osteoarthritis(OA) is most common form of arthritis and has an immense impact on lives in USA.
- Describe various clinical manifestations of OA.
- Select the various management options based upon the evidence based guidelines provided by various professional organization.
- Update on diagnosis and management of Rheumatoid Arthritis.
- Elucidate the epidemiology of Rheumatoid Arthritis(RA).
- Differentiate Inflammatory from non-inflammatory arthritis.
- Recognize various clinical presentations of RA and its classification criteria.
- Describe common agents used to treat and evidence based strategies in management of RA.
- Gout in 21st century: How far have we come?
- Identify the recent updates in the evaluation and management of Gout.
- Ascertain the role of uric acid in pathogenesis and management of Gout.
- Distinguish the differing positions of American College of Rheumatology and American College of Physicians in management of Gout.
- Describe therapeutic options for management of Gout and potential pitfalls.
- Osteoporosis: A Silent Killer; Current state of evaluation and management.
- Identify the recent updates in the evaluation and management of Osteoporosis.
- Describe the role of bone density testing in evaluation of Osteoporosis.
- Discuss recent advances including a new therapeutic options on horizon for management of Osteoporosis.
- Inflammatory Low Back Pain: How to evaluate spondyloarthritides and manage them?
- Differentiate clinical presentation and common features of mechanical back pain from inflammatory back pain.
- Ascertain various clinical presentations and classification of Spondyloarthritides (SpA).
- Discover the available therapeutic options and guidelines for management of axial and peripheral SpA.
- Connective Tissue Disease: What does it mean? How is it evaluated and when do I get rheumatology involved?
- Conclude that a positive test for auto-antibodies does not mean a diagnosis of autoimmune diseases.
- Describe common auto-antibodies and their association with underlying diseases.
- Identify clinical presentations where testing for auto-antibodies and referral to rheumatology is appropriate.
- DMARDs and Biologics in management of rheumatic diseases: current state of understanding
- Recognize the vast number of disease modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biologic response modifiers (Biologics) used in management of rheumatic diseases.
- Differentiate various pharmacological features of DMARDs and Biologics.
- Summarize regulatory and financial issues with biologics and biosimilars.
- Pregnancy in autoimmune diseases: No reason to panic!!
- Conclude that pregnancy in patients with autoimmune diseases is common and easily managed.
- Identify common maternal and fetal complications that may complicate pregnancy in patients with autoimmune diseases.
- Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE/Lupus): An Overview
- Identify various clinical presentations and classification of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE).
- Describe the common agents and evidence based strategies in management of Lupus (SLE).























































































