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Individualizing Treatment for Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyps: Novel Options for Optimizing Outcomes - Part 1
Target Audience
Physician specialists (allergists, immunologists, ENTs) and primary care providers who may treat patients with CRSwNP.
Program Overview
Chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP) is a chronic condition associated with multiple comorbidities and decreased quality of life. It is a condition characterized by inflammation of the sinonasal mucosa and clinical symptoms including congestion, rhinorrhea, hyposmia or anosmia, and pain or pressure in the face. Advances in... |
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Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine 2023 - LIVE STREAMING
The Comprehensive 2023 Update on Office-Based Primary Care Medicine
OVERVIEW
Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine, among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses, provides comprehensive reviews of the most important recent advances impacting primary care medicine and guidance to assimilate these changes into practice for state-of-the-art care. Education is practical and results-focused, structured to help you optimize your approach to the wide array of conditions seen in pr... |
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FSA 2023 Annual Meeting
This activity is intended for anesthesiologists. Researchers and other healthcare professionals with an interest in anesthesiology may also participate. |
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Opioid Issues in Youth Pain Management for Orthopedic Injuries
This course familiarizes physicians with current guidelines for opioid prescribing, focusing on safe prescribing practices when dealing with adolescents. Non-opioid treatments for orthopedic injuries are also reviewed.
Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:
- Manage adolescent non-cancer pain using non-opioid therapies.
- Cite at least two key safe opioid prescribing practices from state or CDC guidelines.
- Review trend... |
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Internal Medicine Comprehensive Review and Update 2023 - LIVE STREAMING
Comprehensive, Evidence-Based Updates for Internal Medicine and Its Subspecialties
This program, the 63rd Annual Internal Medicine Update from the leading clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, provides comprehensive instruction to ensure clinicians are current with the latest evidence and best practices to optimize patient care.
This program covers the breadth of Internal Medicine subspecialties, including:
• Cardiovascular Medicine
• Infectious... |
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Is There an NP in the Rheum? The Role of Nurse Practitioners in Overcoming Underrecognition and Treatment Delays to Improve Patient Outcomes in Axial Spondyloarthritis
Target Audience
This educational initiative is designed for nurse practitioners, advance practice nurses, physicians, and physician assistants who work in primary care and manage patients with axial spondyloarthritis.
Program Overview
Axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is a chronic, relapsing/remitting inflammatory rheumatic disease that causes low back pain. Most patients develop axSpA in the prime of their lives with 20 to 30 years old being the most common age of onset. Unfortunately,... |
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Managing Chronic Pain in Adults With or in Recovery from Substance Use Disorders
Medication for chronic pain is addictive; therefore, the treatment of individuals with both substance abuse disorders and pain presents particular challenges. This course is based on a document from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Managing Chronic Pain in Adults With or in Recovery from Substances Use Disorders: A Treatment Improvement Protocol (SAMHSA Tip 54). Intended for all healthcare providers, thi... |
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Evolving Approaches in Pain Management
Target Audience
This educational activity is intended for medical doctors, doctors of osteopathy, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners involved in the treatment of acute and chronic pain.
Program Overview
This online, on-demand virtual symposium brings together renowned experts in pain management and other areas of internal medicine. In this educational program, these experts will provide information on current and emerging evidence-based approaches of traditional and alternative... |
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BTK Inhibitors: An Emerging Target in Multiple Sclerosis
Target Audience
This educational activity has been designed to meet the needs of neurologists, primary care physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other advanced health care professionals who manage patients with MS.
Program Overview
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory condition that affects approximately 1 million US adults. The disease is marked by central nervous system (CNS) demyelination that results in fatigue, spasticity, and pain, among many other... |
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Part 1: Understanding the Fundamentals of Pain
Target Audience
This activity is designed specifically for primary care clinicians, registered nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, pharmacists, and other members of the healthcare team.
Program Overview
Pain is a pervasive problem in the United States that poses many challenges to clinicians and patients. The potential for opioid misuse, abuse, and addiction contributes to the complexity of appropriate pain management. This CME/CE activity, which is Part 1 of a three-part series ... |
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Part 2: Best Practices for Prescribing Opioids in Primary Care
Target Audience
This activity is designed specifically for primary care clinicians, registered nurses, advanced practice registered nurses, pharmacists, and other members of the healthcare team.
Program Overview
Pain continues to be a major public health problem in the United States, causing reductions in patients’ daily function and quality of life. Despite the benefits of opioid analgesics, untreated and undertreated acute and chronic pain persists. Thus, education on safe opioid pres... |
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Sickle Cell Disease: Improving the Quality and Continuum of Acute and Ambulatory Patient Care
Target Audience
This educational activity is directed toward hematologists, cardiologists, pulmonologists, neurologists, primary care physicians, and advanced clinical practitioners who work with sickle cell disease (SCD) patients.
Activity Overview
In this video-based activity, a panel of 4 distinguished experts in managing SCD review clinical guidelines, interpret clinical latest data regarding current and emerging therapeutic strategies, and engage in lively discussion about best pract... |
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Dermatological Compounding with Pain Management
Class Dates & Registration
TBD: email training@acainfo.org to be put on the notification list.
DERMATOLOGICAL COMPOUNDING WITH PAIN MANAGEMENT is an accredited 15 hour (1.5 CEUs) practice-based course designed for pharmacists, technicians, marketers, and students who want to learn more about a growing segment for compounding. Physicians and other healthcare professionals are welcome to attend. This course is a combination of didactic lectures for content and laboratory activities to en... |
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Updates on Pain Review: Conversations with the Experts - Rehabilitation Medicine Approach to Chronic Pain Management
Learning Objectives:
Describe the role of the following modalities in the treatment of chronic pain: heat, cold, electricity, manual (osteopathic) manipulation and mobilization, massage, traction, splinting/orthotic devices, and exercise.
When preparing to take the pain board examination, both for initial certification and for recertification, there is a dearth of comprehensive educational programming. The Updates on Pain Review: Conversations with the Experts curriculum has been designe... |
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Current Management of Domestic Violence - Responding to IPV
This course helps you screen for, respond to, document, and manage your patients who are suffering from abusive relationships. Includes up to 17 patient cases in 5 different specialties.
Outcome Objectives:
As a result of completing this activity, the participant will be better able to:
- Screen patients for intimate partner violence (IPV) and appropriately respond to disclosures of abuse.
- Recognize patterns of abuse and properly document IPV.
- Assess the safety of IPV victims.
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Understanding Fibromyalgia
Understanding Fibromyalgia is an online nurisng CE course intended to help healthcare professionals recognize the symptoms of fibromyalgia and diagnose it early. It will discuss potential causes, signs and symptoms, criteria for diagnosis, and treatment options. |
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Pain Management Nursing Exam Review (eLearning)
This course will prepare the nurse experienced in pain management to successfully complete the exam. The course provides information for the pain management nurse, covering each of the topics on the test plan along with information on the pathophysiology of pain transmission, pain terminology and assessment of pain interventions, including the ethical issues in pain management.
Program Learning Outcomes
This program prepares the learner to:
1. Develop an understanding of the normal pain... |
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FOCUS: Functional pain and Opiods " Clinically Useful Strategies
Target Audience
The target audience includes family medicine physicians, emergency physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other healthcare providers involved in the management of patients experiencing functional pain
Program Overview
Learn how to assess and treat functional pain syndromes caused by nociplastic pain. This course is based on the FDA’s Opioid Analgesic REMS Education Blueprint.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, parti... |
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Mindfulness: The Healing Power of Compassionate Presence
Mindfulness: The Healing Power of Compassionate Presence is a 6-hour online continuing education (CE) course that will give you the mindfulness skills necessary to work directly, effectively, and courageously with your own and your clients' struggles.
Compassion towards others starts with compassion towards self. Practicing mindfulness cultivates our ability to pay intentional attention to our experience from moment to moment. Mindfulness teaches us to become patiently and spaciously aware ... |
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