Primary Care Update (Aug 5-7, 2022)

Primary Care Update is organized by A.T. Still University (ATSU) and will be held from Aug 05 - 07, 2022 at Margaritaville Lake Resort Lake of the Ozarks, Osage Beach, Missouri, United States of America.

Activity Description:
This intensive course will provide you with comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based therapeutic concepts that you will be able to implement into your daily practice. This activity is designed to improve competence in the diagnosis and treatment of Primary Care issues in the physician office setting. It will provide practitioners with evidence-based methods and strategies to assist in providing better management and treatment options for patients.

Educational Objectives:
• Identify current therapeutic options for many medical disorders commonly seen in practice
• Utilize current clinical guidelines in the diagnosis and management of commonly encountered therapeutic issues
• Formulate comprehensive evidence-based interventions and treatment strategies that will lead to the reduction of modifiable risk factors and improved long term outcomes
• Summarize recent advances in office-based internal medicine based on case discussions

Educational Need:
Patients with multimorbidity (two or more chronic conditions) are now the norm in clinical practice and place an increasing burden on the healthcare system. Management of these patients is challenging, and requires healthcare professional who are skilled in the complexity of multiple chronic diseases.(1)Studies have shown that continuing Medical Education on management of patients with multimorbidity and comorbidity using live lectures, workshops and case studies improve outcomes.

Desired Outcome:
This course is designed to provide interactive educational activities that discuss complicated case scenarios that have been shown to improve participant application of evidence-based medicine for patients with multiple chronic comorbidities. By providing a format for adult learning that includes lectures, case-based studies, interactive question and answer sessions and collaborative sharing of patient care issues has been shown to improve participate knowledge and competency.

Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.