Updates in Primary Care and Women's Health (Sep 28 - Oct 09, 2023)

Updates in Primary Care and Women's Health are organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Sep 28 - Oct 09, 2023, at Celebrity Beyond, Rome, Italy.

Program Purpose:
To update providers dealing with women's health issues on the most current evidence-based information and practice guidelines in the context of a team-based approach to patient care. The course will attempt to enhance clinical decision-making among providers of women's health care including Ob/Gyns, midlevel practitioners, and primary care physicians.

The purpose of the lectures is also to help providers utilize the latest up-to-date information on a wide variety of conditions seen by Primary Care. Educate physicians, mid-levels, and nurses on the best approaches and communication to work together and ensure the best patient outcomes.

Topics:

• Abnormal Uterine Bleeding: Newer Terminology and Management
  • Apply current techniques of endometrial ablation as a viable alternative to hysterectomy
• Screening and Treating for Sexually Transmitted Infections-Current CDC Guidelines
  • Utilize current CDC guidelines in the management of sexually-transmitted infections
• Update on Hormonal Contraception: the Move Towards LARC
  • Evaluate contraceptive options to provide an individualized approach to contraceptive counseling
• Medications and Pregnancy
  • Identify meds to use, those to avoid, and those to consider during pregnancy
• Hormonal Alternatives in Managing Menopause
  • Apply current postmenopausal hormone therapy guidelines to provide an individualized approach in menopausal patients
• Communicating with Patients: Medical Writing, Health Literacy, Medical Websites, and More
  • Address deficiencies in health literacy to improve health outcomes and experiences
  • Assess and utilize objective health information from a variety of internet sources
• Obesity in Pregnancy
  • Apply contemporary strategies in managing risks associated with obesity in pregnancy
• Osteoporosis: What Professionals Need to Know
  • Utilize contemporary management options for post-menopausal patients
• Eat to live; get the healthiest diet
  • Teach patients the benefits of healthy eating
• Get your hinny moving: Exercise & exercise prescription
  • How to motivate our patients to get the exercise they need
• Thyroid disease case studies
  • Apply the new thyroid guidelines to hypo, hyper & nodules
• Case studies in adrenal & pituitary problems
  • Develop a screening to identify parathyroid, pituitary, and adrenal problems and treat them.
• Cardiac risk stratification & testing of adults
  • Apply proper screening tools to detect & stratify heart disease
• Screening for cancer: Latest recommendations
  • Physicians need to know the latest evidence-based screening tests
• Healthy behavior change: What works
  • How do we affect healthy behavior change in our patients