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36th Annual Cape Cod Summer Symposium
Boston University School of Medicine is delighted to present the 2019 annual Cape Cod Summer Symposium, continuing the series offered for many years by Dr. Rob Guerette.
These lectures will provide psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric social workers, psychiatric nurses, and allied mental health professionals with an outstanding opportunity to combine a stimulating symposium with a relaxing, sunny summer vacation. Distinguished faculty, each a leader in their field, will present four di... |
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Towards Psychotherapy Integration: Mind-Brain-Gene with John Arden, PhD
Recently an increasing number of interactive factors underlying many health and mental health problems have been identified. This seminar will synthesize the substantial literature on psychoneuroimmunology and epigenetics, combining it with the neuroscience of emotional, interpersonal, cognitive and dynamic issues, with psychotherapeutic approaches to offer an integrated vision of psychotherapy. Significant relationships between immune system function, stress, insecure attachment, anxiety, dep... |
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Therapy Tidbits – January/February 2019
Therapy Tidbits – November/December 2018 is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE) course comprised of select articles from the Nov/Dec 2018 issue of The National Psychologist, a private, independent bi-monthly newspaper intended to keep mental health professionals informed about practice issues. The articles included in this course are:
2019 Brings Overhaul of Testing Codes and Payment Changes – Discusses the new coding structure for central nervous system (CNS) assessments and conf... |
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Getting to Remission: Differentiating Residual Symptoms from Treatment Side Effects in Major Depressive Disorder
Millions of US adults with MDD are inadequately treated despite the availability of effective therapies. Achieving and maintaining remission continues to be a considerable clinical challenge. In addition, cognitive impairment is a common residual symptom, and many clinicians are failing to assess for and manage this aspect of depression. Some residual symptoms, such as weight gain, sleep disturbances, and sexual dysfunction, may be difficult to distinguish from treatment side effects. Despite ... |
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Treating Obesity 2019: The Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine
Education to Optimize Your Care of Adult, Adolescent, and Pediatric Patients with Obesity
This acclaimed Harvard Medical School CME course delivers practical strategies to optimize the management of obesity and its many complications, and provides the most up-to-date approaches to obesity prevention and treatment. In addition, one day prior to this program, on June 19, 2019, a one-day Obesity Medicine board review course is offered for participants preparing for the American Board of Obesity ... |
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Evaluating and Treating Pain
Updates and Practice Recommendations to Optimize the Assessment and Treatment of Pain -- Headache, Fibromyalgia, Neuropathic, Myofascial, Cancer, Abdominal, Pelvic, Musculoskeletal, and Spinal Pain --In the past year, there have been significant changes in how we address pain related to the above conditions. This Harvard Medical School CME program expediently and effectively ensures you are current with these changes and can incorporate them into practice to better assess pain complaints and d... |
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Introduction to Energy Psychology
Introduction to Energy Psychology is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that describes the history, uses, and benefits of energy psychology treatment models.
This course will focus on the use of energy psychology and how it can help health professionals who are seeking a holistic approach to work with patients. Energy psychology has its origins from acupuncture and can be used to address many emotional and behavioral problems. While it has many modalities, the most well-kn... |
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The Power of Skepticism and Critical Thinking
The Power of Skepticism and Critical Thinking is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that examines how positive skepticism and critical thinking are necessary in clinical practice.
The history of health care abounds with treatments that persisted (although they didn’t work) for many years without ever being seriously challenged. How did this happen? More to the point, how is it that this continues to happen today? At least a part of the answer can be found in a very long ... |
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NeuroRehabilitation 2019
Cutting-edge strategies, updates, and best practices for clinicians who provide care for patients with CNS trauma and neurological diseases
In this Harvard Medical School CME course, many of the country’s most experienced and committed neurorehabilitation experts will present cutting-edge clinical interventions, the latest findings, practical education, and hands-on methods to further your expertise in guiding your patients to their maximum level of function. Clinicians who provide care for... |
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Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change
State-of-the-Art Approaches to Help Patients Initiate and Sustain Health-Promoting Behaviors
This immersive, two-day Harvard Medical School CME course offers state-of-the-art strategies to guide patients to healthier lives. Education includes evidence-based strategies, tools and techniques to effect healthier changes in patients (and ourselves), including nutrition, exercise, sleep, weight loss, and stress management. This course also provides updates on payment structures that reward clinici... |
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Therapy Tidbits – November/December 2018
This course is comprised of select articles from the September/October 2018 issue of The National Psychologist, a private, independent bi-monthly newspaper intended to keep mental health professionals informed about practice issues. The articles included in this course are:
ACA Hasn’t Reduced Health Care Costs - Explains the impact of the ACA on independent practice doctors and the new recommendation for payment parity for clinic visits.
Out-of-Office Encounters May Be Beneficial – Dis... |
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The American Institute of Medical Education goes international to Italy and the Dalmatian Coast.
Join the American Institute of Medical Education for an educational and experiential time in Venice, Italy and a cruise on the Dalmatian coast. Earn 18 CEU's |
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Creativity and Madness
Creativity and Madness International explores Paris, the Normandy coast and Nice in 2019.
Join us for an unforgettable trip and earn 18 CE credits as we visit Paris for 4 nights, board the AmaWaterways Amalyre river boat and cruse for 8 days around Normandy coast. Disembark for our flight to Nice for another 4 nights in this magical part of France.
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Women of Resilience
Join us for the 5th annual Women of Resilience conference in majestic Santa Fe, NM.
Invited faculty this year includes:
Lisa Klein, director of The S Word (Suicide)
Patricia Velasquez, PhD
Micheal Sperber, MD
Ann Rea, MDiv
Diana Semmelhack, PhD
Camille Adair, RN
Margaret Chalupowski, MD, PhD
Joyce Lilly, RN
Tammy Roth, LPC
Lucy Papillon, PhD
Kathline Colvin, PhD
Barry Panter, MD, PhD
Anita Pandolfe Ruchman, Psych NP
Anna Yusim, MD |
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9th Annual UCLA Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Course and Hands-On Workshop
The UCLA Department of Radiological Sciences, in collaboration with lead physicians from the departments of rheumatology, orthopaedics and sports medicine, is proud to offer a comprehensive interdisciplinary musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound hands-on learning experience. The MSK Ultrasound Course and Hands-On Workshop will review pertinent aspects of upper and lower extremity ultrasound critical for clinical application. This weekend course will include, in addition to basic MSK ultrasound of j... |
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Spirituality & Aging
Spirituality & Aging is a 2-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that offers an insight into how spirituality influences the lives of elders in our care.
Spirituality and religious beliefs provide coping mechanisms for issues related to aging and have been proven to have a protective factor. Elders with higher levels of spirituality have better mental and physical health, and are less anxious about aging.
This course provides an accessible tool kit for healthcare professiona... |
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Managing Anger & Aggressive Behavior
Managing Anger & Aggressive Behavior is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE) course that provides strategies for dealing with anger and aggression in clinical practice.
Healthcare professionals in every specialty have had experiences with anger and aggression, sometimes finding themselves the target of their clients’ anger. We are human, and all of us are subject to the full range of human emotions, even as therapists within the context of professional encounters with our clients. Wh... |
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Current Topics in Primary Care, Palliative Care, and Addiction Medicine Hawaii Cruise |
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Counseling Victims of Natural Disasters
Counseling Victims of Natural Disasters is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that examines how to help the victims, and witnesses, of natural disasters.
We may ask ourselves: What can be done for the victims of natural disasters? Beyond the physical needs, such as safety, food, and water, there remains the emotional residue of living through an experience that threatens one’s life. This course will address these emotional needs.
This course offers healthcare professi... |
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Young Adults with Chronic Conditions: Optimizing Treatment and Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care
Young Adults with Chronic Conditions: Optimizing Treatment and Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care
This new Harvard Medical School CME course brings experts together from multiple pediatric and medical specialties to address the continuing medical and professional care of adolescents and young adults with chronic conditions of childhood origin. How do we optimize this transition and ensure the highest levels of care?
Consider the following clinical questions:
• What should I screen fo... |
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Poise: The Psychology of Posture
Poise: The Psychology of Posture is a 2-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that explores how body language can be used to better understand our clients and improve their lives.
It is said that non-verbal communication represents two-thirds of all communication. Whether it be through gestures, posture, facial expressions, personal space or eye contact, how we position and move our bodies sends a message to those we are speaking to. Our poise is often a very telling look into ho... |
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Suturing
Practice various suturing techniques using pigskin, including simple and straight lacerations, deep-layer closure, skin closures, and tying knots using hand and instrument ties. This course is geared toward beginners and those wishing to refresh their suturing skills.
Contact Hours: 5
Visit our website to learn more: http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/son/ce.html
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Update in Respiratory Nursing
Join the Update in Nursing I course for this half-day review of respiratory nursing. Class covers the core competencies in Respiratory.
Visit our website to learn more:
http://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/cson/academics/continuing-education/all-course-listings.html |
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Update in Neurology
Join the Update in Nursing I course for this half-day review of Neurology. Class covers the core competencies in Neurology.
Visit our site for more information:
http://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/cson/academics/continuing-education/all-course-listings.html |
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Update in Cardiac Nursing
Join the Update in Nursing I course for this one-day cardiac nursing content review. Class covers the core competencies in cardiac nursing.
http://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/cson/academics/continuing-education/all-course-listings.html |
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Update in Antibiotics
Join the Update in Nursing I course for this half-day antibiotics content review. Class covers core competencies in antimicrobial therapy.
http://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/cson/academics/continuing-education/all-course-listings.html |
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Transitioning into a Career in Clinical Research
This course deals with the challenges related to managing change associated with career transition. Understand the clinical research field as well as your career strengths, career interests and values. In addition, focus on your uniqueness and its value to yourself and the market place.
Identify transferable skills and accomplishments that can be used in clinical research. Learn from clinical research experts how to market yourself and how to enter the clinical research arena. Pre/co-requis... |
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Suturing
Practice various suturing techniques using pigskin, including simple and straight lacerations, deep-layer closure, skin closures, and tying knots using hand and instrument ties. This course is geared toward beginners and those wishing to refresh their suturing skills.
Contact Hours: 5
Visit our website to learn more: http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/schools/son/ce.html |
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Gender and Transgender Identity
Gender and Transgender Identity is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE) course that reviews issues in the formation of gender and transgender identity. After viewing oneself as a human being, the most important aspect of our self-concept is that we are a male person or a female person. That is the very essence of our humanness and the most basic sense of who we are. To experience a conflict between our physical body and our concept of maleness or femaleness is the most fundamental existen... |
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Therapy Tidbits – September/October 2018
Therapy Tidbits – September/October 2018 is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE) course comprised of select articles from the September/October 2018 issue of The National Psychologist, a private, independent bi-monthly newspaper intended to keep psychologists (and other mental health professionals) informed about practice issues. The articles included in this course are:
Preexisting Conditions Dominate Health Care Discussions - A look at short term limited duration insurance plans (S... |
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Treating Tardive Dyskinesia: Clinical Challenges and Patient Perspectives
This Clinical Commentary consists of an HD video roundtable discussion with two leading expert psychiatrists in the field, who participate in a panel discussion of tardive dyskinesia (TD) as a widespread and undertreated condition in psychiatric populations, as well as the importance of evidence-based differential diagnostics, newly approved therapeutics for treatment of the condition, and strategies for both personalized and improved patient care. This activity additionally includes an interv... |
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Fit to Perform: Recognizing Impairment in the Workplace
TARGET AUDIENCE
This course is designed to provide continuing education for Florida Nurses and Nurse Practitioners. It fulfills the continuing education requirement for those licensed in the state of Florida.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
It is an employer responsibility to address any behaviors or situations that compromise workplace safety. The immediate manager or supervisor is generally assigned this responsibility. The manager or supervisor must consider job duties and job expectations and then... |
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TAIWAN, PHILIPPINES, BORNEO & INDONESIA ON CRYSTAL ENDEAVOR - Confronting Medical & Dental Healthcare Needs
Uncover Asia’s Most Exotic Islands
This voyage provides a veritable playground of precious wild terrain and curiously beautiful sights found nowhere else in the world. With an itinerary that focuses on the exotic wilds of some of Asia’s most stunning tropical islands, this journey is perfect for lovers of both nature and natural wonders.
Highlights include the Philippines’ Hundred Islands National Park, with its mushroom-like limestone islets beckoning snorkelers, the playful young... |
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Principles of Medical Education: Maximizing Your Teaching Skills
THE TECHNIQUES AND STRATEGIES THAT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND TEACHING AND MENTORING EFFECTIVENESS
This special program, ranked among Harvard Medical School’s highest-rated CME courses, is a uniquely comprehensive exploration of best practices for teaching medicine at the bedside, in ambulatory settings, and in the classroom.
PLEASE NOTE: This course has sold out the past two years. Early registration is strongly recommended.
The 2019 curriculum helps medical educato... |
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Writing, Publishing, and Social Media for Healthcare Professionals
A special program for healthcare professionals who want to advance their communication skills or get published
This unique 3-day course, among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, empowers physicians, psychologists, and other healthcare professionals to expand their visibility and influence in healthcare through traditional and new media. As an attendee, you will learn how to make the most of print, live, and online communication channels, and sharpen your ability to market y... |
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The Suicide Survivor
The Suicide Survivor is a 2-hour online continuing education (CE) course that provides an understanding and means for helping the people who have lost loved ones to suicide.
One of the most difficult and complex emotional adjustments many individuals will ever face is the challenging and often lengthy process of dealing with the suicide of a family member or other loved one. These people are called suicide survivors; the family members and close friends who have experienced the death of a f... |
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Autism, ADHD and Developmental Disabilities through the Lifespan - Biological and Environmental Perspectives Croatia, Italy & Spain Cruise
Topics:
• Introduction to Developmental Disabilities
• Prematurity and its Consequences
• Cerebral Palsy
• Children’s Environmental Health
• Environmental Health Disparities
• Environmental Influences on Fetal Growth and Development
•Medical Care for Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities
•Autism in Children and Adolescents
•Autism in Adulthood
•ADHD in Children and Adolescents
• ADHD in Adulthood
•Anxiety Disorders in Children
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Sensitive Topics in Women's Health: Sexuality, Menopause, and Mental Health Eastern Caribbean Cruise
1.Depression Across the Female Reproductive Cycle 1: Focus on PMDD, PME and Menopause ◦Identify the hormonal effect on depression in the non pregnant female
2.Depression Across the Female Reproductive Cycle 2: Focus on Perinatal Depression ◦Recognize unique features to consider in the diagnosis and treatment of perinatal depression .
3.Beyond Postpartum Depression: Diagnosis and Treatment of Perinatal Anxiety Disorders ◦Define various mood and anxiety disorders that can present in ... |
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Pain Management, Headache, Palliative Care, and Mental Health Spain, Italy & Monaco Cruise |
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Practical Neurology Alaska Cruise Co-Provided with School of Medicine, SUNY at Stony Brook
Purpose:
This course will provide a working knowledge of the most common neurological problems and reinforce principles of clinical diagnosis while reviewing the symptoms and signs of most major neurological diseases. The seminar will also present clear, practical guidelines for managing these common problems including how to integrate laboratory tests and imaging techniques into the patient's evaluation. Finally, the current treatment for these disorders will be developed in sufficient de... |
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Topics in Emergency Medicine, Physician Wellness, and Burnout Alaska Cruise |
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Women's Health, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Assault & Legal and Ethical Aspects of End-of-Life Care Greece & Croatia Cruise
1.End of Life Care and Refusal of Treatment ◦ Discuss ethically and legal appropriate end-of-life treatment choices with patients.
◦ Explain the lines the line draws between appropriate and inappropriate end-of-life treatment choices for patients.
2.Dying and the Patient With Decisionmaking Capacity ◦Differentiate between instructional and proxy advance directives.
◦ Explain the difference between advance directives and physicians orders regarding end-of-life treatment options.
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Alzheimer’s Disease: A Practical Guide
Alzheimer’s Disease: A Practical Guide is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that offers healthcare professionals a basic foundation in Alzheimer's disease prevention, diagnosis, and risk management.
This course will present practical information to aid healthcare professionals as they interact with clients who are diagnosed with any of the many types of dementia. We will review what is normal in the aging process, and what is not; diagnostic criteria for Alzheimer's dis... |
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Therapy Tidbits – July/August 2018
Therapy Tidbits – July/August 2018 is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE) course comprised of select articles from the July/August 2018 issue of The National Psychologist, a private, independent bi-monthly newspaper intended to keep mental health professionals informed about practice issues. The articles included in this course are:
Hacking Creates Market for Cyber Insurance - Discusses the need for cyber insurance and provides examples of the types of coverage currently available ... |
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HIV/AIDS: Therapy & Adherence
HIV/AIDS: Therapy & Adherence is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that treatment and adherence issues in populations at high risk for HIV infection.
People who live with HIV can live almost normal lifespans and have little risk of transmitting the disease if they use antiretroviral therapy appropriately under medical care. However, only 55% of HIV-infected people follow their antiretroviral regimen well enough to achieve viral suppression. This course will discuss adhere... |
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Psychological Effects of Media Exposure
Psychological Effects of Media Exposure is a 2-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that explores the psychological effects that media exposure has on both the witnesses and victims of traumatic events.
This course will explore why we are so drawn to traumatic events and how media portrayals of these events influence our thoughts, conclusions, and assumptions about them. It will then discuss how the intersection of trauma and media has evolved to provide a place for celebrity-li... |
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Personality and Temperament: Connecting with Young Clients
Personality and Temperament: Connecting with Young Clients is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that demonstrates how differences in personality and temperament impact how children behave and how adults communicate and connect with them.
Understanding differences in temperament and personality among adults and children will ultimately assist us in developing better relationships with our clients and enhancing therapy interventions, plans, and goals. Within the context of ... |
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HIV/AIDS: Adherence Issues
HIV/AIDS: Adherence Issues is a 1-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that discusses adherence issues in populations at high risk for HIV infection.
HIV and AIDS are medical terms that are linked together due to the progressive nature of HIV, with the end result of untreated (or undertreated) HIV becoming AIDS. The virus affects people of all ages, from children born to mothers with HIV, to adolescents, to adults, and elders. People who live with HIV can live almost normal life... |
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Executive Functioning in Adults
Executive Functioning in Adults is a 3-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that provides strategies to help adults overcome executive functioning deficits.
As human beings, we have a built-in capacity to accomplish goals and meet challenges through the use of high-level cognitive functions called “executive functioning” skills. These are the skills that help us to decide which activities and tasks we will pay attention to and which ones we will choose to ignore or postpone.... |
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Grief: The Reaction to Loss
Grief: The Reaction to Loss is a 2-hour online continuing education (CE/CEU) course that teaches healthcare professionals how to recognize and respond to grief.
Grief is the reaction to loss. People grieve for the loss of someone they love, but they also grieve for the loss of independence, usefulness, cognitive functioning, and physical abilities. Grief is also a lifelong process: a journey rather than a disease that is cured. It changes over time to deal with different kinds of losses. It... |
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