Product Description
CME Sponsors: American Medical Seminars, Inc.
Activity Title: Family & Internal Medicine: A Practical Approach to Common Primary Care Problems Day 3
Recorded Dates: 11/13/2024
Original Release Date: July 1, 2025
Expiration Date: July 1, 2028
Presenting Faculty: David Horowitz; Leslie Zun;
Practical Approach to the Patient with Obesity
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to:
- Review current popular diets available and marketed to your patients for addressing obesity.
- Consider the unique needs of the obese patient to create a comprehensive approach to the treatment of obesity.
- Review the basic physiology of obesity.
- Manage the medications available for the treatment of obesity.
Practical Approach to the Patient with Diabetes
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to:
- Review the management protocols for the patient presenting with diabetes.
- Determine which patient is likely to go on to develop complications from diabetes and consider the long-term care.
- Apply the current guidelines for therapy for patients with diabetes.
Substance Use Disorders
Attendees of this presentation should be able to:
- Evaluate the risk factors leading to substance abuse and addiction
- Utilize several screening tools for substance abuse and addiction
- Review the medical and psychiatric consequences and comorbidities of substance abuse
- Utilize biological and psychosocial treatments for substance abuse
Anxiety Disorders
Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to:
- Review the impact of anxiety disorders
- Compare the diagnostic criteria for panic disorder, agoraphobia, general anxiety disorders and social anxiety disorder.
- Evaluate treatment options for anxiety disorders
Dealing with Difficult Patients
- Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to:
- Describe why some patients and family members might be difficult to deal with difficult people
- Recognize and respond to difficult individuals identify various types of difficult people
- Implement techniques to deal with difficult patients and family members
- Evaluate how medical and psychiatric illness affects difficult people
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