Current Topics in Family Medicine and Cannabinoid Medicine

This conference has been CANCELLED.

Current Topics in Family Medicine and Cannabinoid Medicine is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Jul 19 - 26, 2020 at Holland America's Nieuw Statendam, Amsterdam, Noord Holland, Netherlands.

Target Audience:
Pharmacists

Accreditation:
• 16 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• 16 ACPE Credits
• 16.0 Contact Hours

Program Purpose:

Each of the lectures is focused on:
• Improving patient safety and optimizing outcomes
• Utilizing evidence-based medicine

Common threads in each of these areas are:
• Importance of teamwork and communication
• Including multi-specialty and multi-disciplinary management. The successful incorporation of effective computer systems is vital, both for knowledge acquisition, patient management, and medical record keeping, in achieving superior outcomes, both for individual patients, but also for successful teams working together.
• Decreased use and more appropriate use of opioid pain medications
• Decreased use of medications in the elderly from the Beer's list (Do not use list)
• Patient safety advice for elderly
• Improvement in effective pre-travel evaluation and advice for international travelers

Medical Cannabis: Clinical Considerations-to review how the medical cannabis system has evolved over time and its future significance to health and wellness; and to recognize when medical cannabis may an appropriate or inappropriate therapeutic option in clinical practice by evaluating the literature.

Medical Cannabis: Case Studies-to understand specific patient cases who have benefited from medical cannabis and how to identify patients who may benefit.

Topics:
1. Optimizing Results through Teamwork
• Apply the characteristics of successful teams and tools to build teamwork and improve outcomes
• Describe how teamwork can improve chronic disease metrics
• List and explain stages of team formation

2. Preparing Your Patients for a Successful Transition to their Golden Years
• Improve the wellness of the elder patients seen
• Address preventive measures for elder patients
• Provide appropriate medication management for the elderly
• Improve communication strategies in discussing advance directives with patients

3. Medical Error Reduction: Optimizing Outcomes and Patient Safety
• Discuss types of medical errors that can result in increased morbidity and mortality
• Minimize potential cognitive error risks to result in improved outcomes and patient safety
• Explain how diagnosis momentum can result in medical errors

4. Travel Medicine: Prevention Goes International
• Discuss the scope of US travelers abroad
• Assess appropriately the medical risk to the traveler
• List commonly needed Immunizations for travelers
• Implement helpful travel preventative treatments
• Utilize travel medicine related website resources

5. Optimizing Patient Safety- Appropriate Opioid Prescribing
• Appropriately evaluate a patient for Chronic Pain
• Utilize general guidelines for prescribing Controlled Substances / Opioids, including the new CDC guidelines
• Implement the use of multiple modalities in managing chronic pain
• Explain the added risks when prescribing opioids in excess of 100 mg/day Morphine Milligram Equivalent (MME)
• Implement strategies to improve patient safety and compliance with guidelines in prescribing opioids and other Controlled Substances

6. Why is Medical Cannabis an Important Consideration for Physicians?
• To understand the importance of medical cannabis for some of their patients

7. How do Cannabinoids Work on the Human Body?
• To learn about the human endocannabinoid system

8. What is the Evidence Supporting Medical Cannabis Use?
• There is emerging evidence supports the use of medical cannabis for some of our patients

9. How Do You 'Authorize' Medical Cannabis?
• How is cannabis prescribed in Canada?