This conference is designed to provide primary care practitioners with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues in pediatric and adolescent medicine, while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The discussion-based format of the conference will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, and hands-on workshops. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine for Primary Care, with the goal of enhancing the knowledge base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program should improve attendees’ confidence in diagnosing, treating, and prescribing the most effective courses of treatment, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.
Target Audience
Family Physicians and all Physicians and other Healthcare Professionals seeking clinical information about Primary Care issues.
Speakers
Our presenting national faculty speakers made it their professional goals to enhance the training of primary care healthcare professionals. This Continuing Medical Education program promises to help learn the most current, best medicine, and techniques for making the diagnosis easier and quicker during a 20 minute office visit.
Topics and Objectives
Introduction to Adolescent Medicine with Discussion of Cases of Acutely Ill Adolescents
Objectives: 1) Describe pitfalls in making a diagnosis in an ill Adolescent 2) Demonstrate semantic problems that can arise in history taking 3) Discuss common adolescent health problems and some complications 4) Utilize case studies to demonstrate possible errors in diagnosis 5) Highlight some rare but important diagnoses in adolescent medicine
Drug Abuse: Vulnerability of the Brain to Drugs, the Approach to the Adolescent Using Drugs, and a Review of New Drugs of Abuse and Their Effects
Objectives: 1) Describe the clinician’s own response to drug use 2) Describe the peculiar vulnerability of the adolescent brain to drugs of abuse 3) Discuss how to talk about drugs with teens and motivate them to change their drug abuse habits 4) Demonstrate how to work with parents and refer a youth to drug rehab
5) Identify the effects of newer drugs of abuse
Update on Sexually Transmissible Infections (STIs)
Objectives: Objectives: 1) Describe the risks teens face from sexually transmitted infections 2) Define whom to test for STIs 3) Discuss the presentation of Sexually Transmitted Infections and how to diagnose them 4) Highlight changes in CDC recommended treatments for STIs
Sexual Health 101
Objective: 1) Identify what youth want to know about sexual function 2) Describe new approaches to adolescent sexuality that are more inclusive of the family and compatible with normal adolescent development 3) Discuss the pitfalls of current approaches to adolescent sexuality
Update and Selected Recent Developments in Sports Medicine
Objectives: 1) Describe new approaches to prevention and rehabilitation of sports injuries 2) Describe an evolving approach to using the EKG to diagnose athletes at risk for sudden death 3) Identify new understanding of sports related concussions and controversies
Male Health
Objectives: 1) Utilize photos to highlight cases that young males may present to the clinician 2) Use question and answer format to discuss the treatment of male health problems 3) Demonstrate issues of hair loss, genital problems, sexual function, male body issues and in appendix the use of performance enhancing supplements
Some Thoughts and Suggestions for Providing Care to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered (LGBT) Patients
Objectives: 1) Describe the varied population of LGBT youth 2) Describe the clinicians approach to Transgender and gender non-conforming youth 3) Update on suicide risk and Mental health needs 4) Demonstrate some services for the parents of LGBT youth 5) Identify methods of improving clinician’s provision of care to LGBT youth and medical issues for youth engaged in men who have sex with men
The Troubled Youth
Objectives: 1) Demonstrate an approach to the family and teen in the clinic 2) Describe Solution Based Therapy 3) Assess an approach to over zealous parents and stressed teens 4) Discussion of depression and suicide. In the appendix participants will find 4) Assess school problems and solutions 5) Describe sleep problems, workup and approaches to solutions 5) A method of violence prevention intervention and ethnic issues affecting teens
Superficial Fungal Infections in Children
Objectives: 1) The participant will be able to identify superficial fungal infections that commonly affect children and adolescents 2) The participant will be able to discuss the management plan of commonly seen superficial fungal infections in the outpatient setting 3) The participant will be able to compare and contrast common superficial fungal infections with other non-fungal disease look a likes 4) The participant will be able to describe methods that can be used in the outpatient setting to differentiate fungal infections from other disease processes
Differentiation and Management of Recurrent Childhood Headaches
Objectives: 1) The participant will be able to identify different causes of headaches and describe how the use of patient drawings can benefit the health care provider in his or her diagnosis 2) The participant will be able to discuss the management of uncomplicated pediatric migraines, tension headaches and chronic daily headache 3) The participant will be able to identify red flags in the history and physical that signal more ominous disease processes manifesting with head pain 4) The participant will be able to identify non-pharmacologic management strategies that can potentially benefit all patients with chronic pain syndromes
Diagnostic Dilemmas
Objectives: 1) The participant will be able to identify common childhood problems that pose diagnostic dilemmas in the outpatient setting 2) The participant will be able to develop strategies to avoid cognitive errors when confronted with a diagnostic dilemma 3) The participant will be able to identify general sources of information to aid the health care provider in the diagnosis of clinical conundrums 4) The participant will be able to identify ways to turn diagnostic dilemmas into maintenance of certification credit
Is It a Normal Variant or Not: Clinical Conundrums in the Outpatient Setting
Objectives: 1) The participant will be able to distinguish normal variations in growth, pubertal progression and development that can be managed by the primary care provider 2) The participant will be able to describe the work-up of children with abnormalities in growth, pubertal progression and development 3) The participant will be able to identify red flags in growth, pubertal progression and development that require referral to a specialist 4) The participant will be able to discuss the long term management of normal variants of growth, pubertal progression and development
The Disneyland Phenomena: Challenging Cases and Updates in Pediatric Immunizations
Objectives:1) List appropriate vaccines for both normal intervals and intervals for catch-up in a child with delayed immunizations 2) Identify the most common concerns about vaccines and methods to demystify parental concerns 3) Visually recognize vaccine preventable diseases 4) Describe contraindications and precautions as they relate to vaccine administration
The Atopic Triad: Management of Asthma, Allergy, and Atopic Dermatitis
Objectives: 1) The participant will be able to discuss the management of a child with chronic asthma and an acute exacerbation of the disease 2) The participant with be able to describe the typical work-up of a child with allergies and first line management by the primary care physician 3) The participant will be able to compare and contrast the different steroid formulations and their efficacy in the treatment of atopic dermatitis 4) The participant will be able to outline the management of a child who has the atopic triad
