Topics in Family Medicine, Primary Care, and Disability Evaluation
hosted byContinuing Education IncTopics in Family Medicine, Primary Care, and Disability Evaluation is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Aug 30 - Sep 06, 2024 at Celebrity Edge, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Program Purpose:
Things we missed in medical School-Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements
• Develop a strategy to respond to patients requesting complimentary or alternative medicine treatment or are on self-procured regimens
• Utilize selected resources on supplements and complimentary medicine
• Discuss alternative non-hormonal therapies
• Understand normal hormonal pathways
• Identify bio-identical hormones to incorporate into your practice
Toxicology 101-what is the approach?
• Identify difficulties between Acute vs. Chronic Occupational Claims
• Discuss why true cases may be missed and false cases may present
• Learn legal vs. Scientific Causation
• Be aware of available resources to handle a toxicologic claim
• Review of the medical literature
• Utilize steps that can be summarized as “Does“ “Can“ and “Did“
• identify what the patient has, what can cause their problem and what may have contributed to this condition
Sleep Complaints with a focus on Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Identify risk factors for Obstructive Sleep Apnea(OSA)
• Know the associated medical conditions that indicate OSA may be present
• Recognize symptoms commonly claimed to be associated with OSA
• Recall the shifting trends in obesity internationally
• Complete a USPSTF quiz on OSA
Medical Mimics: medical conditions that look orthopedic
• Utilize presenting case history and examinations to generate a working differential diagnosis from an orthopedic presentation
• Be able to request additional appropriate testing to define an illness
• Review literature for specific presented cases
Stress and Cardiovascular Disease:
• Raise awareness of the impacts of stress on cardiovascular outcomes
• Look at different models of stress in the literature
• Know guideline statements for the benefits of work
Causation: what causes the common things we see in practice
• Understand methods underlying causation
• Learn Medical vs Legal Causation
Work Ability and Returning Someone to Work
• Identify the types and sources of mixed messages sent to patients
• Be able to articulate the negative health consequences of being placed out of work
• Discuss specialty society statements on the return to work process
• Know the generalized health benefits of working
• Understand what are Risk, Capacity and Tolerance
Illness Behavior and Pain Questionnaires-What Patterns Can We Find
• Learn about questionnaire based techniques to identify these subtle and complex psychosocial issues
• Implement a more structured approach in their office to patients with pain and injury claims based on useful questions and their interpretation
