
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™16 ACPE Credits
16.0 Contact Hours
16 (part II) MOC points in medical knowledge in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program
4 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
Topics
- Heart Disease in Women: A Call to Action
- Appreciate sex-related differences in symptoms of ischemia between men and women
- Discuss non-traditional risk factors for CAD impacting women that deserve special attention
- Discuss strategies to raise awareness and close the gaps to optmize treatment of heart disease in men and women
- Hypertension in African Americans
- Discuss the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans
- Describe social determinants of health which impact on effective treatment in this population
- Hypertension Update 2023
- Health Literacy
- Identify which patient groups are at greatest risk for low health literacy
- Appreciate the role that low health literacy plays on health outcomes
- Utilize a simple intervention to identify the low health literacy patient
- Hypertension Emergencies
- Assessing Cardiac Risk Before Surgery
- Appreciate causes of perioperative cardiac events
- Discuss which patients require preoperative assessment
- Implicit Bias in Health Care
- The Choosing Wisely Movement in Medicine
- Urinalysis - A Window into the Body
- Describe methods of urine collection
- Interpret physical and dipstick examination of urine
- Identify microscopic elements in the urine sediment
- Solve clinical cases with abnormal urinalyses
- Understanding Diuretics
- Describe classification and mechanism of action of diuretics
- Discuss clinical uses and adverse effects
- Define diuretic adaptation and resistance
- Disorders of Sodium Balance
- Define osmolality and tonicity
- Describe approach to hyponatremia with case presentations
- Discuss steps and pitfalls in management of hyponatremia
- Poisonings in Nephrology
- Discuss different medications and poisonings seen in clinical practice
- Discuss the clinical presentation of these poisonings
- Describe the management of these poisonings
- Acute Kidney Injury
- Discuss the definition, epidemiology, course and burden of AKI
- Recognize common causes of AKI and identify risk factors
- Discuss the medical management of AKI in the hospitalized patient
- Illustrate with case presentation
- Chronic Kidney Disease: A Call to Action
- Facilitate timely testing and intervention in patients at risk for CKD
- Apply appropriate clinical measures to manage risk and increase patient safety in CKD
- Primary aldosteronism - Is it the Elephant in the room?
- Identify appropriate patients to screen for PA
- Outline testing for screening, confirmation and subtype identification of PA
- Discuss management strategies based on subtype