
COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ANCC Contact Hours
4 Hours of Pharmacology for NPs
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM TOPICS
- Updates on screening for breast, colorectal, lung, prostate and cervical cancer
- Approach to common complaints encountered in the outpatient setting
- Best practices to deliver immunizations to adult patients
- Practical pointers for managing diabetes and preventing complications
- Presentation of clinical scenarios and discussion of primary care cases
- Care and guidance for international travelers
- Screening and management of common sexually transmitted infections
- Health Prevention and Disease Promotion
- Describe the importance of screening tests in planning preventive care for patients
- Outline the development of guidelines, using the United States Preventive Services Task Force as an example
- Synthesize common health promotion and disease prevention guidelines for populations.
- Apply screening guidelines to a patient case in order to understand current recommendations
- Common Primary Care Complaints
- Summarize the broad range of clinical problems encountered by primary care physicians in the outpatient setting.
- Consider the communication skills, clinical decision-making skills, and commitment to lifelong learning, and health promotion and disease prevention important in outpatient primary care.
- Utilize the evidence-base to guide management devisions in conditions commonly encountered in the outpatient primary care setting
- Adult Immunizations
- Describe recommended best practices for administration of vaccines to adult patients.
- Compare recommended schedules for vaccine administration to adult patients and special populations.
- Identify contraindications for commonly used adult vaccines.
- Diabetes Clinical Prevention Recommendations
- Illustrate the importance of a pre-travel consultation in primary care, as well as trends in global migration.
- Summarize the components of a travel consultation, including anticipatory guidance given to travelers.
- Differentiate destination specific immunization and prophylactic medication needs of travelers.
- Demonstrate the importance of post-travel follow-up and identification of travel-acquired illnesses
- Clinical Cases in Family Medicine
- Interpret the signs and symptoms provided in clinical scenarios to apply clinical reasoning and select a diagnosis.
- Utilize guidelines and evidence-based strategies in selecting management strategies for presented conditions.
- Engage in solving clinical problems through discussion of clinical cases.
- Travel Medicine
- Apply the principles of fading immunity, herd immunity, and at-risk populations, as they relate to immunizations for adult specific vaccine preventable diseases.
- Utilize patient cases to present the adult recommended vaccine schedule, and the schedule for specific populations and indications for immunization.
- Summarize individual vaccine recommendations and contraindications.
- Sexually Transmitted Infection Update
- Identify the organisms that cause sexually transmitted infections and their modes of transmission.
- Describe the general diagnostic process and presenting symptoms of sexually transmitted infections.
- Summarize diagnostic methods, treatment options, and prevention measures for specific infections.
- Utilize public health principles and strategies for preventing the spread of sexually transmitted infections.
- Hypertension
- Apply new HTN guidelines
- Describe rationale for those guidelines
- Managing Mildly Abnormal Liver Functions
- Apply established guidelines in the evaluation of abnormal LFTs
- Describe the rationale behind the guidelines
- Common Skin Rashes and Skin lesions
- Identify and recognize common rashes and lesions in the primary care setting
- Introduction to CAM/Integrative Medicine including Herbals and Supplements
- Cite the frequency of use of various modalities among patients and health care professionals
- Give examples of the more common CAM therapies
- Examine the evidence base for and/or against common CAM therapies
- Evaluating Dyspepsia
- Apply established guidelines in the evaluation of Dyspepsia
- Describe the rationale behind the guidelines
- Low Back Pain
- Apply ACP/APS guidelines to the evaluation and treatment of low back pain
- Apply the concept of "red flags" to the evaluation of LBP
- Treating Obesity
- Identify health consequences of obesity
- Review pathophysiology of obesity
- Distinguish advantages/disadvantages of diet and exercise types
- Discover new modalities for treatment of obesity


























