Topics in Internal Medicine: 2018 Update by Continuing Education

Topics in Internal Medicine: 2018 Update is organized by Continuing Education, Inc and will be held during Apr 11 - 21, 2018 at 10-Night Mediterranean Mosaic Round-trip Civitavecchia, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

The target audience for this medical event is Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Topics:
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Office evaluation of Anemia
• Multiple Sclerosis Update
• End of life Challenges
• Update on IBS
• An approach to Office Liver tests
• Gout management
• Post Bariatric Surgery Management
• Update on Anticoagulants.
• Health Promotion and Prevention
• Describe the differences between health promotion, prevention, and screening.
• Recognize the three leading causes of morbidity in the United States.
• Counsel patients on necessary lifestyle modifications to maintain health.
• Reinforce the necessity of patient education and counseling for health promotion, including healthy diets, exercise, and smoking cessation.
• Barriers to Adult Immunizations
• Identify barriers to immunizations among adults
• Use evidence-based recommendations and guidelines to establish standardized vaccine administration procedures, including standardized protocols to screen for immunizations during patient encounters
• Identify available vaccine administration strategies and resources, available patient education resources, vaccine alert systems, current immunization schedules, and available education programs
• Counsel patients using available patient education resources and motivational interviewing about vaccine safety and efficacy
• An approach to Pulmonary Infections
• Discuss the diagnostic and risk factor approaches to common types of pneumonia.
• Describe empiric therapy of pneumonia for outpatients and inpatients.
• Explain the use and ACIP recommendations for pneumonia vaccines.
• Contraceptive Update
• Describe principles of patient selection regarding contraceptives
• Discuss the indications/contraindications for various contraceptive methods
• Appraise recommendations for use of long-acting reversible contraceptives

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.