Live: Therapeutic Update 2023 Key West is organized by University Learning Systems (ULS) and will be held from Apr 27 - 29, 2023 at Hyatt Centric Key West Resort & Spa, Key West, Florida, United States of America.

Description:
This conference, Primary Care Update 2023 is a popular CE/CME program which provides 15 contact hours (1.5 CEU) of live AAFP/ AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, ACPE pharmacology CE/ CME credit.

Escape the winter and join us in sunny Florida to get ahead on your medical CME & pharmacy CE over three days, 5 hours per day. With small class sizes and clinical faculty from medical & pharmacy schools, our live Florida CE/ CME is perfect for physicians, pharmacists, physician assistants, nurses & nurse practitioners.

This live CE / CME experience is accredited for MDs, PAs, Pharmacists, NPs and Nurses!

Thursday, April 27, 2023: 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM Registration & Breakfast, 8:00 AM – 1:30PM Educational Program
New Drug Update Part 1
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
• Identify recent FDA drug communications, including but not limited to, labeling changes, warnings, new indications, new dosage forms and MedWatch alerts. 2. Discuss the new drugs with respect to their pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, approved and unapproved indications. 3. Describe their adverse effects and drug interaction that may affect patient compliance. 4. Compare efficacy, dosage and cost to existing agents. 5. Discuss the patient oriented outcomes or evidence that may or may not exist for each of the new medications and when they may or may not be appropriate to recommend for selected patients. 6. Compare pharmacotherapy outcomes vs cost/benefit between newly approved agents and existing or lower cost agents.

Friday, April 28, 2023: 7:30 AM – 8:00 AM Registration & Breakfast, 8:00 AM – 1:30PM Educational Program
New Drug Update Part 2
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
• Discuss the new drugs with respect to their pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, approved and unapproved indications. 2. Describe their adverse effects and drug interaction that may affect patient compliance. 3. Compare efficacy, dosage and cost to existing agents. 4. Discuss the patient oriented outcomes or evidence that may or may not exist for each of the new medications and when they may or may not be appropriate to recommend for selected patients. 5. Compare pharmacotherapy outcomes vs cost/benefit between newly approved agents and existing or lower cost agents.

Saturday, April 29, 2023: 7:30AM – 8:00 AM Registration & Breakfast, 8:00 AM – 1:30PM Educational Program
Nutritional Therapy and Supplementation Therapy
At the conclusion of this program, the participant will be able to:
• The Importance of Nutritional Consultations and Foods that cause diseases and Foods that may help disease: 1. Summarize the components of a nutritional consultation. 2. Review medical conditions for insurance reimbursement. 3. Describe why blood sugar stability is key to preventing diabetes and inflammation. 4. Discuss the evidence on which food ingredients may cause illness and which food components can heal tissues and biochemical abnomality.5. Review Research on food components that cause symptoms and diseases. 6. Discuss environmental causes of symptoms. 7. Discuss how to access and use literature on food research.
Review the Digestive System and evidence based herbal and food based remedies for supplementation therapy : 8. Review the physiology of upper and lower GI: tissues, cells, enzymes, tight junctions. 9. Define the importance of bile and pH in balancing the GI. 10. Review Phase 3 Detoxification that takes place in the G.I. 11. Identify how toxins, pathogens and diets cause GI dysfunction. 12. List foods with polysaccharides and how they can help with mucus tissues in the GI. 13. Identify research based herbal and food therapies that can have a positive effect of GI physiology.
Probiotics and Prebiotics- More than you know: 14. Define the function of probiotics, prebiotics, vitamins and SCFA’s in the lower GI. 15. Evaluate the research on various strains of probiotics and function. 16. List foods that are prebiotics and contain SCFA with symptom and function improvement. 17. Review probiotics science-based evidence in auto-immune, GI and mental health/ brain conditions.