LIVE STREAM ONLINE CME: Primary Care Update: COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology

Jun 26, 2020 – Jun 28, 2020

Online Live Stream - CME

Primary Care Update: COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology

This online live stream CME activity will be acceptable for up to 12 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Attendees can select their level of participation between 4 CME hours (Day 1, 2, or 3 Single Day Pass), 8 CME hours (2-Single Day Passes), or 12 CME hours (Full Event Pass).

This online live stream CME is designed to provide primary care clinicians with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues with with COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology, while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The online learning format will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, quality of content, opportunity for Q&A, interactive audience participation, and nationally recognized speakers. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates with with COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology, with the goal of enhancing the knowledge-base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program diagnosing, treating, and prescribing the most effective courses of treatment, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.

Please see the Overview & Agenda tab below for additional information on the Presenting Faculty Speakers, Daily Program Schedule (Coming Soon), and Topics & Objectives (Coming Soon) for each date listed below. 

Note: Content is subject to change without notice. Please refer to the activity website for the most current information.

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Overview & Agenda

Primary Care Update: with COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology

Overview
This online live stream CME is designed to provide primary care clinicians with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues with with COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology, while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The online learning format will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, quality of content, opportunity for Q&A, interactive audience participation, and nationally recognized speakers. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates with Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology, with the goal of enhancing the knowledge-base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program diagnosing, treating, and prescribing the most effective courses of treatment, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.

Target Audience
All Physicians and other Healthcare Professionals seeking clinical information about with COVID-19, Geriatrics, Pharmacology, Psychiatry, & Endocrinology

Speakers Our presenting national faculty speakers make it their professional goals to enhance the training of primary care clinicians. This Continuing Medical Education program promises to help you learn the most current, best medicine, and techniques for making the diagnosis easier and quicker during a 20 minute office visit.

Faculty Speakers: 

  • Theophilos (Phil) E. Yphantides, M.D. – Medical Director, Department of Urgent Care, Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group, San Diego, CA. Board of Directors, North County Health Services Community Clinics, San Diego, CA.
  • Kenneth Brummel-Smith, MD – Professor Emeritus, Department of Geriatrics, Florida State University College of Medicine, Tallahassee, FL. Past President, American Geriatrics Society. Health and Aging Policy Fellow, Senate Special Committee on Aging, Washington DC. Member, Forum on Aging, Disability and Independence, National Academy of Medicine, Washington, DC.
  • Dr. Reamer L. Bushardt, PharmD, PA-C, DFAAPA – Professor and Senior Associate Dean, Health Sciences, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C. Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants. Director, Translational Workforce Development, Clinical and Translational Science Institute at Children’s National, Washington, D.C.
  • Theodore A. Stern, MD – Ned H. Cassem Professor of Psychiatry in the Field of Psychosomatic Medicine/Consultation, Harvard Medical School. Chief Emeritus, the Avery D. Weisman Psychiatry Consultation Service; Director, Thomas P. Hackett Center for Scholarship in Psychosomatic Medicine; and, Director of the Office for Clinical Careers, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Editor-in-Chief, Psychosomatics.
  • Mario Skugor, MD, FACE – Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine. Director, Problem Based Learning Case Development, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University. Chair, Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Edward A & Catherine L. Lozick Foundation. Former President, Member and Board of Directors, Ohio River Valley Chapter of American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Former Vice Chairman, Global Patient Services, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.

Program Topics, and Objectives: 

Friday, June 26
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: Best Practices in Prescribing Opioids: A Regulatory Perspective – Pharmacology
Objectives: 1) Describe evolving opioid prescribing and regulatory practices in the United States 2) Discuss recently released opioid prescribing guidelines, highlighting the relevance to primary care providers 3) Describe best practices for managing patients with chronic nonmalignant pain, highlighting guidance from a regulatory perspective

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM: Assessment and Management of Depression Psychiatry
Objectives: 1) Learn how to diagnose depression 2) Understand the downstream consequences of untreated depression 3) Learn practical treatment strategies for depression

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:
Normal and Maladaptive Responses to Medical Illness Psychiatry
Objectives: 1) Understand a variety of coping strategies 2) Learn how people with certain personality styles react to having a medical illness or condition 3) Learn how to interact successfully with people who have difficult-to-manage personality traits or disorders

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM: Falls – Geriatrics
Objectives: 1) Describe the relative risk of falls compared to diseases as a cause of mortality in older patients 2) Differentiate between intrinsic and extrinsic risk factors 2) Describe an evidence-based approach to the work-up of the elder who has fallen 3) Describe medical and functional interventions to reduce the risk of falls

Saturday, June 27
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: How to Address Some Tough Obesity Questions from our Patients – Endocrinology
Objectives: 1) Why is it so difficult to lose weight? 2) Why is it so difficult to maintain weight loss? 3) Review of topics related to the importance of different diets, physical activity, resting energy expenditure

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Treat Obesity – Endocrinology
Objectives: 1) Obesity is a chronic disease 2) Nutrition and lifestyle interventions 3) Learn about the different dietary approaches to treat obesity 4) Importance of physical activity on weight loss interventions 5) Psychological factors

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM: Drug Therapy Challenges in Older Adults – Pharmacology
Objectives: 1) Discuss key physiologic and common pathophysiologic changes of aging that impact drug therapy 2) Apply age-sensitive principles for medication dosing and management to patient scenarios 3) Apply practical tools to screen and appropriately manage complex drug regimens among older adults with or at-risk for drug injury

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM: Optimizing Psychopharmacotherapy in Depression: Clinical Cases – Pharmacology
Objectives: 1) Discuss pharmacologic management options within clinical cases of patients with depression 2) Relate physiologic and pathophysiologic alterations of brain neurochemistry to symptoms of depression, including the genetic link and molecular basis of injury 3) Apply clinical practice guidelines for antidepressant therapies 4) Describe key parameters for medications used to treat mechanism, safety, tolerability, efficacy, cost, and simplicity of use

Sunday, June 28
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM: What You Need to Know and How to Help in this COVID-19 Pandemic Emergency Medicine: COVID-19
Objectives: 1) Understand how to safely screen and provide outpatient care to COVID-19 infected patients 2) Understand how to partner with your local Public Health system and ensure adherence to local directives

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM: Health Screening in Older Persons: Balancing the Benefits Against the Harms Geriatrics
Objectives: 1) Describe the USPSTF and AGS recommendations for screening in those above age 75 2) Discuss 3 controversies in health screening in the “old-old” 3) Describe a patient-centered method for making health screening recommendations 4) Demonstrate use of a health screening app in office practice

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM: Exercise – The Medicine of Choice!Geriatrics
Objectives: 1) List the evidence for the benefits of exercise for longevity and disease prevention 2) Describe the evidence for exercise interventions in conditions such as heart failure, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s disease 3) Describe the current recommendations for exercise in older adults

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:20 AM: Approach to Diabetes Therapy by Treating Patient’s Obesity Endocrinology
Objectives: 1) Learn how to treat T2D by addressing the weight 2) Learn how diabetes medications work and their impact on weight gain

11:20 AM – 11:50 AM: Medications to Treat Obesity – Endocrinology
Objectives: 1) Have a clear understanding of the medications FDA approached for weight loss 2) Understand pros and cons 3) Learn about what medications should be avoided when treating a patient with obesity 4) Identity alternative therapies

Note: Content is subject to change without notice. Please refer to the activity website for the most current information.

 

Program Schedule

Date

Location

Description

Time

June 26, 2020

Online CME

Live Stream - Day 1

Online live stream access information will be provided upon registration.

7:30 AM - 11:50 AM PST

June 27, 2020

Online CME

Live Stream - Day 2

Online live stream access information will be provided upon registration.

7:30 AM - 11:50 AM PST

June 28, 2020

Online CME

Live Stream - Day 3

Online live stream access information will be provided upon registration.

7:30 AM - 11:50 AM PST

Accreditation

Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education – ACCME

MCE Conferences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

MCE Conferences designates this live activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credits commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Academy of Family Physicians – AAFP

This live activity has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 12 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. AAFP Prescribed credit is accepted by the American Medical Association as equivalent to the AMA PRA category 1 credit toward the AMA Physicians Recognition Award. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The College of Family Physicians of Canada – Mainpro-M1

The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) is the accrediting body for family medicine continuing medical education (CME) in the United States of America. CFPC members who complete any live CME/CPD program accredited by the AAFP for Prescribed credit can claim the equivalent number of Mainpro-M1 credits. Canadian Healthcare professionals in other specialties need to verify with their licensing board the reciprocal credit agreement with the AAFP.

American Osteopathic Association – AOA

CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.

American Academy of Physician Assistants – AAPA

AAPA accepts Category 1 CME approval from the AAFP.

American Association of Nurse Practitioners – AANP

AAFP Prescribed Credits are accepted by the AANP.

American Nurses Credentialing Center – ANCC

According to the ANCC, the continuing education hours approved by the AAFP meet the ANCC-accredited CNE criteria.

Pharmacology Credits

This course is being  reviewed and will be acceptable for up to 12 CE credits; please verify with your Medical Board which hours may be applied toward Pharmacology credit.

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