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Live Virtual Symposium: The Road to Remission: Assessing Today's Treatment Goals in Crohn's Disease
Crohn’s disease (CD), an inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) that affects at least 780,000 people in the United States, has recently seen its management goals evolve from merely controlling flares to achieving and sustaining deep remission, which can help a patient avoid progressive bowel wall damage. The only treatments effective in achieving durable deep remission are novel targeted therapies, which makes it imperative for clinicians to have a working knowledge of these treatments and to opti... |
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Opioid Overdose Risk and Prevention
This is a 5 minute online activity included in the READINESS Opioid Learning Center "library".
This activity provides important information on opioid overdose – risks involved, prevention strategies & tips, and more to help you better understand how to combat opioid overdose and be better prepared in the event of an opioid overdose.
READINESS develops and hosts custom opioid eLearning centers for health systems, pharmacies, and organizations to support opioid stewardship and education ... |
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How to Use Narcan (naloxone) Nasal Spray
This is a 5 minute online activity included in the READINESS Opioid Learning Center "library".
This activity provides important information on Narcan (naloxone) nasal spray – how to administer the medication, proper technique, and more to help you better understand how to use Narcan (naloxone) nasal spray.
READINESS develops and hosts custom opioid eLearning centers for health systems, pharmacies, and organizations to support opioid stewardship and education initiatives. Offer your com... |
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Support Your Community with an Opioid eLearning Center Hosted by READINESS
READINESS develops and hosts custom opioid eLearning centers for health systems, pharmacies, and organizations to support opioid stewardship and education initiatives. Offer your community an intuitive and accessible eLearning center to support opioid education and awareness.
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Food Allergy: From Primary Prevention to Treatment and Intervention Online
This online offering includes 19 videos of lectures and panel discussions on the diagnosis and management, specific syndromes, treatment, and research and prevention of food allergy. The videos were recorded at a live course that took place at a live AAAAI course held in early September, 2019.
The intent of the videos is to allow learners to increase their knowledge related to the diagnosis and management of food allergic patients. It highlights the latest evidence related to food allergie... |
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14-Night South Africa CME AWAY® Cruise - Medical Emergencies, Dental Disease & Its Relationship To Systemic Medical Conditions
Cape Town, South Africa | Walvis Bay, Namibia | Port Elizabeth, South Africa | Durban, South Africa | Maputo, Mozambique |Richards Bay, South Africa | Mossel Bay, South Africa
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7-Night Whistler CME AWAY Resort
Whistler Ski Resort |
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11-Night Portugal, Spain & France CME AWAY® Cruise
Lisbon, Portugal ● Porto (Leixoes), Portugal ● Bilbao, Spain ● Bordeaux, France ● Nantes, Loire Valley, France ● St. Peter Port, Channel Islands ● Southampton, England |
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8-Night Rome & Amalfi Coast CME AWAY® Land Tour
Rome, Italy ● Montecassino, Italy ● Amalfi Coast, Italy ● Minori, Italy ● Sorrento, Italy ● Pompeii, Italy |
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Breaking Down Long-Chain Fatty Acid Oxidation Disorder Treatment: Review of Current Care and the Latest Advances
Long-chain fatty acid oxidation disorders (LC-FAODs) are rare; however, these conditions continue to be associated with high mortality and suboptimal disease control. Reasons include: 1) a lack of agreement regarding LC-FAOD treatment, 2) a lack of published guidelines, 3) treatment nonadherence among patients, 4) confusion regarding how to assess and interpret LC-FAOD lab values, and 5) a need for more improved treatment options. A newer therapy, triheptanoin, is in late-stage development and... |
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Danube River Cruise on Crystal: Exploring Medicine, Dentistry & the European Healthcare Model
Danube River Cruise on Crystal
Exploring Medicine, Dentistry &
the European Healthcare Model
Budapest to Vilshofen on Crystal Ravel
September 19 – 26, 2021
Join PES for 7 nights & discover the heart of Old-World Europe, exploring timeless imperial cities and the plentiful UNESCO World Heritage Sites along the regal & romantic Danube River aboard the luxurious, 106-guest all-inclusive, all-suite, butler-serviced Crystal Ravel.
River Cruise Itinerary Highlights:
Overnight in Budapes... |
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The Herbert Benson, MD Course in Mind Body Medicine -LIVE STREAMING
Comprehensive Education and Skills Development for an Integrated Model of Care
The Herbert Benson, MD Course in Mind Body Medicine will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies. Live streaming sessions will be recorded, and will be available for registrants to view on demand for 30 days after the conclusion of the course.
OVERVIEW
Mind body approaches such as meditation, yoga, cognitive skills, lifestyle interventions and positiv... |
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Delivering Appropriate Nutrition for the Critically Ill Adult
Symposium highlights held in conjunction with the ASPEN 2020 Nutrition Science & Practice Conference!
Have you ever wondered what your patients want you to know about their clinical nutrition?
Join us and listen to an expert panel that will discuss two patient cases relating to the assessment and selection of nutritional support for hospitalized patients, including a discussion of newly available and emerging intravenous lipid emulsion (IVLE) nutrition products. The Highlights from ASPEN... |
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West Coast Culinary Themed Cruise: Medical/Dental Health and Well–Being Updates
West Coast Culinary Themed Cruise
Medical/Dental Health and Well–Being Updates
Vancouver to San Diego on Windstar Star Breeze
September 23 - October 3, 2021
Join PES for a 10-night Western United States culinary themed cruise, to explore bountiful farmer’s markets, famed culinary cities, scenic vineyards, and rugged coastlines—while sailing aboard the newly renovated, 312-guest all-suite yacht Windstar Star Breeze!
Medical/Dental Health and Well–Being Updates
CME/CE Lecture... |
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5-Night Mont Tremblant CME AWAY Resort
Mont-Tremblant Ski Resort, Quebec, Canada - March Break! |
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7-Night Jamaica CME AWAY Resort - Updates in Respirology, Rheumatology, Transgender Medicine, Sleep Medicine & Communication
Sandals South Coast, Jamaica |
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7-Night St. Lucia CME AWAY Resort - Updates in Psychiatry & Dermatology
Sandals Grande St. Lucian, Pigeon Island Gros Islet, St. Lucia |
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14-Night Scandinavia & St. Petersburg CME AWAY™ Cruise - Palliative Care for Generalists & Updates on Infectious Diseases
Southampton, England ● Copenhagen, Denmark ● Stockholm, Sweden ● Helsinki, Finland ● St. Petersburg, Russia ● Berlin (Warnemunde), Germany ● Aarhus, Denmark |
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14-Night Ireland & Iceland CME AWAY™ Cruise - Updates in Women’s Health & Sexuality
Southampton, England ● St. Peter Port, Channel Island ● Cork (Cobh), Ireland ● Waterford (Dumore East), Ireland ● Dublin, Ireland ● Glasgow (Greenock), Scotland ● Akureyri, Iceland ● Reykjavik, Iceland ● Belfast, Northern Ireland |
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Needs Across the Patient Continuum: The Intersection of Energy and Protein
Symposium highlights held in conjunction with the ASPEN 2020 Nutrition Science and Practice Conference.
The nutritional needs of critically ill patients during hospitalization and after discharge are complex, and the importance of assessing energy expenditure and tailoring nutritional therapies to the individual is increasingly apparent. Although a great deal of study is still needed, accumulating data on the provision of energy and protein continue to inform clinical practice. This activit... |
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10-Night Peru CME AWAY™ Land Tour - Mood Disorders, ADD, COPD, Hypertension, VTE, Lyme Disease & High Altitude Illness
Lima, Peru ● Cusco, Peru ● Aguas Calientes, Peru ● Puno, Peru |
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11-Night Splendors of Egypt & the Nile CME AWAY™ - Thyroid Disorders, Diabetes, Dermatitis, Psoriasis and Pearls of Hair & Nail Disorders
Cairo • Luxor • Dendera • Kom • Ombo • Aswan • Edfu • Esna |
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12-Night India’s Golden Triangle & The Sacred Ganges CME AWAY™ River Cruise
New Delhi • Agra • Jaipur • Kolkata • Kalna • Matiari • Murshidabad • Baranagar • Mayapur • Chandannagar • Kolkata |
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13-Night Cook Islands, Society Islands, Tonga & Fiji CME AWAY™ Cruise - Updates in Endocrinology & Respirology
Papeete, Tahiti, Society Islands ● Moorea, Society Islands ● Taha'a, Society Islands ● Bora Bora, Society Islands ● Aitutaki, Cook Islands ● Vava’u, Tonga ● Savusavu, Vanua Levu, Fiji ● Suva, Viti Levu, Fiji ● Bequa Island, Fiji ● Lautoka, Viti Levu, Fiji |
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14-Night Chile, Argentina & Uruguay CME AWAY™ Cruise - Emergency Medicine & Pediatrics Update
Buenos Aires, Argentina • Montevideo, Uruguay • Punta Del Este, Uruguay • Puerto Madryn, Argentina • Cape Horn, Chile • Ushuaia, Argentina • Punta Arenas, Chile • Puerto Montt, Chile • San Antonio, Chile |
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12-Night Timeless Wonders of Vietnam, Cambodia & the Mekong CME AWAY™ Cruise - Cardiology, Respirology & Sleep Medicine
Ho Chi Minh City • My Tho • Tien Loi • Vinh Long • Sa Dec • Gieng Island • Hong Ngu • Phnom Penh • Angkor Ban • Wat Hanchey • Kampong Cham • Siem Reap |
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7-Night Costa Mujeres CME AWAY Resort - Physician Empowerment: Physician Wellness, Resilience, & Practice Management
Grand Palladium Costa Mujeres & TRS Coral, Costa Mujeres, Mexico |
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7-Night Iceland CME Land Tour - Pain Management Across the Continuum: From Prevention to Palliation: Movement, Motivation, Mindfulness, Medication
Reykjavík, Iceland • Vik, Iceland |
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8-Night Ireland CME Land Tour - Addictions, Fibromyalgia, Medical Cannabis & Sleep and Mood Disorders
Dublin, Ireland • Castlemartyr, Ireland • Killarney, Ireland • Dromoland Castle, Ireland • Shannon, Ireland |
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6-Night Newfoundland CME Land Tour - Optimizing Functional Outcomes & Reducing Disability: A Biopsychosocial Approach to Chronic Pain
St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada |
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7-Night Tuscany CME AWAY Land Tour - Integrative Pain Management, Diabetes, Atrial Fibrillation & Hypertension
Tuscany, Italy |
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7 Night Caribbean CME Cruise - Updates in Plastic Surgery for the Family Doctor & 2020 Psychiatry Review
Fort Lauderdale, Florida • San Juan, Puerto Rico • Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas • Basseterre, St. Kitt’s & Nevis |
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Lifestyle Medicine in Day-to-Day Practice: Skills Development Programs for Guiding Patients to Healthier Lives
This Harvard Medical School CME program offers a series of targeted lifestyle medicine educational and skills development programs. What makes this education unique is its focus on the “how-to” elements of lifestyle medicine -- how to expand your current approaches to treatment and prevention with pragmatic, effective, evidence-based lifestyle medicine interventions.
This year, we offer the following educational and skills development programs. You can attend the one(s) that align with... |
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Nurturing the Child with Special Needs
Nurturing the Child with Special Needs is a 4-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that provides strategies for healthcare professionals and parents to support children with special needs to manage behavior, sensory issues, and language challenges.
All children need to feel a sense of belonging and significant in ways that elicit positive responses from those around them. Sometimes, a child with special needs can alienate others when attempting to have their unique requirements ... |
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The Evolving Role of Nutrition Therapy in the Hospitalized Patient: Focus on Lipids and Protein
Despite recognition of underfeeding in hospital settings and its consequences, a substantial number of hospitalized patients can be characterized as malnourished. In this roundtable discussion, Canadian and US-based faculty discuss diagnostic criteria for malnutrition, available and emerging lipid emulsion products and their influence on inflammation and ensuring adequate protein delivery for optimal nutrition support.
This activity is intended for physicians, pharmacists, nurses and dieti... |
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Clinical Case Challenges: Strategies to Optimize Primary Immunodeficiency Management
Primary care providers, internists, and other general practitioners may be the first to see a patient with PI and require a level of awareness. Yet, a survey issued by the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology and the Immune Deficiency Foundation found that only 4% of primary care practitioners were aware that guidelines existed for the diagnosis and management of primary immunodeficiency. Because symptoms can overlap with many other conditions and/or diseases, it is also important... |
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Human Trafficking: Identification and Intervention
Human Trafficking: Identification and Intervention is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that details the many facets of human trafficking as well as how to identify and provide intervention to victims/survivors.
Human trafficking, commonly discussed under the two broad categories of sexual trafficking and labor trafficking, is a pervasive public health issue, both globally and in the United States. This course will examine the various forms of human trafficking, including... |
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Weight Management and Diabetes
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Identify the concerns with standard diabetes care and weight gain
Initializing therapy for the newly diagnosed diabetic
Management of insulin requiring diabetes to minimize weight gain |
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Why Weight? Medical, Endoscopic, Surgical Approaches to Weight: A Continuum of Care
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Safety of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Efficacy of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Indications of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery |
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Practical Medication Management for Obesity Treatment
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Learn to identify medications that are iatrogenic for weight gain and select better alternatives
Review all currently available FDA-approved anti-obesity medications
Develop an algorithm to compare treatment options through the use of patient case discussions |
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Obesity and Cancer
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
To review the evidence linking lifestyle factors to cancer outcomes
To review the randomized trials of lifestyle change in cancer survivors and discuss on-going work in this area
To discuss the American Society of Clinical Oncology Obesity Initiative and other efforts to help cancer survivors adopt health... |
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Low Carbohydrate Dieting for the Obese
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Define dietary parameters for low carbohydrate diets
Review differences between nutritional ketosis and ketoacidosis
Identify the major nutritional concerns for adults utilizing ketogenic diet therapies
Outline monitoring procedures for patients utilizing very low carbohydrate diets |
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GLP-1 and the CNS Regulation of Appetite
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Review peripheral biological mechanisms through which GLP-1 and GLP-1 analogs reduce food intake
Identify brain regions through which GLP-1 and GLP-1 analogs act to reduce food intake
Understand the role of nausea in the food intake reductions with GLP-1 analog treatment |
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Treatment of Obesity: Using a Very Low Calorie Diet (VLCD)
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Overview of obesity treatment
List the benefits of a VLCD
List the potential side effects of a VLCD |
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Keeping the Passion Alive After Weight Loss
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Evaluate recent medical management for obesity and patient centered treatment strategies
Create patient centric interventions and overcome potential barriers to appropriate patient care |
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Reversing Diabetes
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Review the studies preventing type 2 diabetes in people with prediabetes.
Discuss the guidelines for treatment vs prevention in people with prediabetes
Explore the rationale for treating people with prediabetes to prevent diabetes-related complications. |
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Motivational Interviewing: The Basics
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Explain what is motivational interviewing.
Identify the two goals of motivational interviewing
Understand the spirit, basic principles and process of motivational interviewing. |
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High-Intensity Interval Training: Exercise Considerations for Obesity
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Determine efficacy of HIIT
Discuss health and safety precautions of HIIT
Assess viability and adherence to HIIT as a training modality
Discover and apply criteria for prescribing HIIT |
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The Dual Diagnosis of Eating Disorder and Diabetes Mellitus
Intended Audience
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, Registered Dietitians, Registered Nurses.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Recognize type 1 diabetes as a risk factor for the development of an eating disorder
Better understand the diagnosis and clinical care of this patient population
Apply management steps in working with this patient population |
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Consumers Going Mobile and Digital for Health
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
Discuss how consumers are looking for convenient, digital, self-care, DIY healthcare
Summarize the new healthcare, everywhere landscape
Discuss the the Amazon Prime-ing of the health consumer
Review the implications for obesity ecosystem stakeholders |
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