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
5 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
Topics:
- Celiac disease
- Identify risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for celiac disease
- C. difficile colitis
- Define risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for C. difficile colitis
- Eosinophilic esophagitis
- Describe risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for eosinophilic esophagitis
- Fulminant hepatic failure
- Cite risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for fulminant hepatic failure
- Update, chronic hepatitis C
- Identify risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for chronic hepatitis C
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Define risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Cirrhosis and complications
- Identify risk factors, symptoms, signs, tests, treatment for cirrhosis and complications
- Health Promotion: Encouraging a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit
- Assess the patient's current state of physical, psychological, and spiritual health
- Analyze the patient's current dietary and exercise practices
- Discuss an individualized health-promotion strategy for the patient.
- "Oh, My Aching Head": Managing Migraine, Tension, and Cluster Headaches
- Explain the classification of headaches
- Discuss the appropriate use of brain imaging in evaluating patients with headache
- Describe the appropriate use of abortive and preventive medications in the treatment of migraine.
- "What Goes Up Must Come Down!": Diagnosis and Management of Hypertension
- Describe the appropriate measurement and classification of hypertension
- Discuss the laboratory testing and imaging needed to diagnose common causes of secondary hypertension
- Describe the major classes of anti-hypertensive treatment and discuss the type of patient most likely to benefit from each class.
- "Get Me Out of Here!": Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia in the Primary Care Setting
- Elicit and assess symptoms of panic disorder and agoraphobia
- Apply appropriate lifestyle modification and stress management skills, including muscle relaxation, breathing control, thought-stopping, and cognitive restructuring
- Recognize and manage side effects of anxiolytics.
- Male Sexual Disorders: Treatment of Hypogonadism, Erectile, and Ejaculatory Dysfunction
- Elicit a thorough, non-judgmental sexual history
- Describe appropriate laboratory and radiologic testing in the evaluation of male sexual problems
- Discuss the effects, risks, and benefits of testosterone replacement and medications to improve the patient's erectile and ejaculatory function.
- Enhancing Clinician - Patient Communication: Becoming a Healer
- Distinguish the technical, biomedical aspects of clinicians role from the personal and psychosocial aspects of care
- Describe specific attitudes and values needed to create a healing environment
- Apply techniques for establishing and maintaining rapport with patients.
- The Faith Factor: Practicing Spiritually - Sensitive Care
- Elicit a spiritual history in an ethically-appropriate manner
- Analyze the physiologic, psychological, social, and lifestyle effects of religious beliefs upon health outcomes
- Describe the spectrum of possible interventions available for addressing patients' spiritual needs.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
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