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Basic Life Support Certification / Recertification
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to show proficiency in:
- Performing 1- and 2-rescuer CPR (adult, child, infant)
- AED use
- Bag Mask use
- Rescue breathing and the Heimlich maneuver
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Smoking Cessation: Treatment Strategies for Success
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Describe the pathophysiology of nicotine addiction
- Discuss the effectiveness, patient acceptance, and adverse reactions of nicotine replacement therapy and non-nicotine cessation medications
- Determine appropriate patient education tools for smoking cessation
- Review current therapeutic options
- Implement the use of combination therapies
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Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Define the professional ethical meaning of a boundary violation
- Understand the legal meaning of a boundary violation
- Discuss the evolution of sensitivity, enforcement and prosecution of boundary violations in the regulatory and administrative fields
- Reduce the risk of boundary transgressions and concurrently improve practice skills through an understanding of vulnerabilities and boundary dynamics
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Women’s Health and Menopause: Options in the Post-Women’s Health Initiative Era
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Discuss methods for managing common climacteric issues during menopause
- List available contraceptive options during perimenopause, including risk and benefits of available methods
- Discuss significant findings from follow-up studies from WHI, WHIMS, and other RCTs
- Discuss current recommendations for HRT in peri- and menopausal females
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Women’s Health Update – Recent Guidelines for Cervical Screening
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Discuss new guidelines for PAP screening pertinent to the patient population described
- Identify which patient populations benefit from such screening
- Recognize the utility of testing and impact this has on treatment
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The Role of Incretin Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: New Approaches, Emerging Data
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify clinician and patient barriers to achieving glycemic targets in patients with type 2 diabetes
- Recognize the role of the incretin hormones, including GLP-1, gastric inhibitory polypeptide, and dipeptidyl peptidase IV, in the pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes
- Interpret the efficacy, safety, and tolerability data of available and emerging incretin therapies
- Integrate incretin-related therapies into treatment paradigms for type 2 diabetes
Supported by Network for Continuing Medical Education
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Emerging Treatment Trends in Pediatric Orthopedics
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify the principles that guide pediatric fracture care
- Discuss commonly-used treatment modalities for scoliosis and spinal deformity
- Evaluate patients and develop appropriate treatment plans for common causes of limp in children
- List three treatment options for treating leg length discrepancies in skeletally-immature patients
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New Vaccines and Vaccine Controversies
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Recognize the value of and reasoning behind endorsement of use of meningococcal conjugate vaccines
- Define the need for pertussis booster vaccinations of adolescents & adults in the U.S.
- Know the national recommendations regarding use of meningococcal & pertussis vaccines in the U.S.
- Identify risk factors in acquiring HPV infection
Supported by Outcomes Management Educational Workshops, Inc.
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Acute Bacterial Conjunctivitis – The ABCs (An Update 2010)
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Appropriately assess individuals presenting with symptoms consistent with bacterial conjunctivitis and construct a comprehensive differential diagnosis
- Describe and apply strategies to prevent the spread of bacterial conjunctivitis
- Evaluate treatment options
Supported by Outcomes Management Educational Workshops, Inc.
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Documentation: Avoiding Scrutiny
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Provide an overview of the reimbursement process to include:
- Coding of Evaluation and Management Services
- Procedural Coding
- Documentation Guidelines
- Global Surgical Package
- Use of Modifiers
- Sites of Service
- Discuss specific guidelines for NPP’s
- Discuss Medicare’s "Never Events" Policy
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Antimicrobial Stewardship
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Review current driving forces of increasing antimicrobial resistance
- Increase focus on the risks (vs. benefits) of antimicrobial use
- Recognize the potential benefits in developing an antimicrobial stewardship program for a healthcare institution
- Identify the epidemiology of multidrug resistant organisms, including MRSA
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Suturing Techniques: Practice, practice, practice
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Define and give the appropriate use of five basic suturing methods
- Show proficiency in using the simple interrupted, vertical mattress, horizontal mattress, buried, and running sub-Q sutures
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Increasing Utilization Rates in Adults for Recommended Screenings and Immunizations
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify recommended screenings and immunizations for adults
- Recognize deficiencies in adults' utilization of preventive screenings and immunizations
- Discuss the importance of recommended screenings and immunizations
- Describe barriers to utilization of preventive screenings and immunizations
- Implement an educational intervention to increase awareness and utilization of recommended screenings and immunization
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Not All Depression is a Major Depressive Disorder
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Review the diagnostic criteria for Bipolar Disorder
- Describe the important elements of educating a patient diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder
- Compare and contrast available treatment options for Bipolar Disorder
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Pulmonary Embolism: The Great Imitator
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Understand the incidence and risk factors for deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE) and venous thromboemboli (VTE)
- Discuss the availability and limitations of laboratory and diagnostic testing
- Discuss treatment strategies for DVT and PE
- Pharmacological
- Anticoagulants
- Thrombolytics
- Mechanical
- Fragmentation
- Rheolytic
- Aspiration
- Surgical
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Identifying Drug Abuse (You Might Be a Drug Abuser If...)
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify the signs and symptoms associated with the drug-seeking patient
- Implement interpretation guidelines of the UDS
- Identify ways patients camouflage drug abuse
- Create pain treatment plans that don’t jeopardize the provider’s license
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Food and Waterborne Diseases
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify various commonly presenting food/waterborne diseases
- Communicate presenting features and disease management
- In a case-based fashion, analyze some complications of these diseases
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Radiology Review: Flirting with Subtleties
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Review basic physics of radiology
- Understand the indication for and proper ordering of radiologic procedures of the abdomen, chest, spine and extremities
- Discuss the risks of contrast and identify those medications that can interact with contrast
- Demonstrate ability to visualize subtle changes in common x-rays that indicate pathology
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Ballistics “In & Out”: The Perils, Pitfalls, and Pearls of Applying Ballistics to Gunshot Wound Case Management
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Understand the myths and misconceptions that pervade current and recent medical literature and if followed, might lead to poor patient outcomes
- Communicate wounding principles and produce understanding of differential wound formation based on type of weapon
- Avoid various "pitfalls" concerning misapplication of ballistic principles
- Evaluate various myths and misconceptions which abound in the literature
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Don’t Just Stand There and Look: Expanding Your Dermatology Differential
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Compare common dermatology problems and discuss hints to get the correct diagnosis
- Learn how to identify dermatology problems without needing to consult a dermatology handbook and hunting for a picture
- Evaluate skin folds thoroughly by knowing the master rashes found under skin folds and in the groin
- Identify skin lesions and decide which ones need to be biopsied
- Identify what is a fungus and what is not
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Pediatric Obesity
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify recent trends in pediatric obesity prevalence in the United States
- Evaluate factors involved in the etiology of pediatric obesity, including environmental and genetic
- Communicate complications and comorbidities of pediatric obesity
- Develop medical and surgical therapies to correct pediatric obesity
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Reimbursement Issues
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Explain coverage policies that regulate and affect a PA’s ability to deliver medical services
- Understand and avoid allegations of Fraud & Abuse
- Describe some of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act and how they may affect PA practice
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Evaluation and Treatment of Stroke
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Describe the incidence of ischemic stroke and the opportunity to maximize patient outcomes
- Describe guidelines-based acute ischemic stroke treatment strategies
- Identify clinically important recent advances in stroke management and apply the latest guidelines into clinical practice
Identifying and Making First Decisions for the Primary Care Patient with HIV: A Step-by-Step Guide through the Initial Clinical Encounter
Learning objectives will be provided soon....
AAPA Chapter Lecture Series supported by Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Inc., and Tibotec Therapeutics
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Basic Pelvic and Soft Tissue Ultrasound Workshop
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to show proficiency in:
- Utilize transabdominal ultrasound to identify the uterus and uterine stripe
- Identify an intrauterine pregnancy with ultrasound
- Identify free pelvic fluid with ultrasound
- Establish fetal viability by identifying a fetal heart rate
- Learn to differentiate abscess from simple cellulitis with ultrasound
- Utilize ultrasound to establish venous access
EKG Interpretation Workshop
Learning objectives will be provided soon....
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Hypertension / Dyslipidemia
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Review the various pathophysiologies of hypertension and define the varying levels of hypertension
- Discuss the appropriate workup of the patient with signs and symptoms of hypertension
- Discuss the appropriate follow-up regimen
- Discuss appropriate pharmacologic treatment of malignant hypertension
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Orthopaedic Emergencies: What Not to Miss
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Discuss common presentations of traumatic injury and their mechanism of injury
- Describe signs and symptoms of non-traditional presentation
- Review common associated complications
- Discuss tips for management in a setting inside or outside of the ER
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Sports Medicine: Diagnosis and Management of Common Sports Injuries (Part I)
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify the five most common sports injuries
- Discuss the signs and symptoms associated with each type of injury
- Discuss diagnostic criteria for each type of injury
- Discuss appropriate management for each type of injury
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Sports Medicine: Diagnosis and Management of Common Sports Injuries (Part II)
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify the five most common sports injuries
- Discuss the signs and symptoms associated with each type of injury
- Discuss diagnostic criteria for each type of injury
- Discuss appropriate management for each type of injury
