Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Derm/Neuro/Rheum (Aug 28 - 30, 2020)

Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Derm/Neuro/Rheum is organized by Medical Education Resources (MER) and will be held from Aug 28 - 30, 2020 at Fairmont Empress, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. 

Target Audience
This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals
with updates in primary care medicine

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

Credit Designation
Medical Education Resources designates this live activity for a maximum of 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC Recognition
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 12 (part II) MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

American Academy of Family Physicians
This Live activity, Internal Medicine for Primary Care, with a beginning date of August 28, 2020 has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 12 Prescribed credits by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Osteopathic Association
These programs are approved for 12 hours in Category 2-A by the American Osteopathic Association.American College of Emergency Physicians This program is approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for a maximum of 12 hours of ACEP Category I credit.

Canadian Physicians
The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) has a reciprocal credit agreement with the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) for activities which offer Prescribed credit. CFPC members who complete these conferences may claim the equivalent number of MainproM1 credits.

American Academy of Physician Assistants
AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for Category I credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 12 hours of Category I credit for completing this program.

Nursing Accreditation
Medical Education Resources is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This CE activity provides 12 contact hours of continuing nursing education. This activity is designated for X.X ANCC pharmacotherapeutic contact hours. The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners (AANP) Certification Board recognizes and accepts continuing education (CE) contact hours from activities approved by AMA, ACCME, ANCC, AANP, AAFP and AACN. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 12299, for 12 contact hours.

Pharmacy Accreditation
Medical Education Resources (MER) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. MER designates this continuing education activity for 12 contact hours (1.2 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education. 

It may also include:
• Addiction Medicine
• Allergy & Immunology
• Bariatrics
• Cardiology
• Dermatology
• Ear, Nose & Throat
• Endocrinology
• Emergency Medicine
• Gastroenterology
• Geriatrics
• Gynecology
• Infectious Diseases
• Medicolegal
• Men’s Urology
• Neck & Spine
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Obstetrics
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Pain
• Palliative Care
• Podiatry
• Psychiatry
• Pulmonology
• Radiology
• Rheumatology
• Sports Medicine
• Toxicology
• Vascular Medicine

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to:
• Identify cutaneous findings that serve as surrogates of internal diseases
• Differentiate benign and malignant skin tumors and employ appropriate interoffice procedures
• Review basic skin surgeries typically conducted in the primary care office
• Perform a neurological exam
• Distinguish dementia from delirium, as well as describe the neurologic changes of normal aging
• Delineate the differential diagnosis and treat movement disorders
• Review the pathophysiology of headaches and migraines and discuss patient assessment and treatment options
• Differentiate between inflammatory and non-inflammatory joint pain and the differential diagnosis of each category
• Evaluate and treat fibromyalgia, and osteoporosis