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Controlled Substance Issues in Palliative Medicine and Geriatrics
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$65.00
Individuals sixty-five years and older account for one-third of all prescription medications.  Eighty-seven percent of the geriatric population were prescribed at least one medication, thirty-six percent were prescribed five or more medications, and thirty-eight percent also took over the counter medications.  Drug misuse and abuse in the elderly can cause cognitive and physical impairment: increase risk of falls, motor vehicle accidents, and may result in a declining ability to perform activities of daily living.
Treating Postoperative Pain: A Better Way
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$65.00
You might be surprised that your post-operative patients require fewer oral pain medications than you think.  Many patients are first exposed to opioids in a surgical setting.  A rather shocking statistic is that approximately 6% of surgical patients who are prescribed opioids become long-term users.  This course will describe the benefits of reduced or eliminated opioid use post-operatively.
Best Practices for Treating Pain with Opioid Analgesics
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$50.00
To provide the fundamentals of acute and chronic pain management and a contextual framework for the safer prescribing of opioid analgesics that includes consideration of a full complement of non-opioid treatment options.
Prescribing Opioids, Providing Naloxone, and Preventing Drug Diversion: The West Virginia Requirement
  • 3.00 MOC
  • 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 3.00 ANCC
$0.00
Opioid analgesic medications can bring substantial relief to patients suffering from pain. However, the inappropriate use, abuse, and diversion of prescription drugs in America, particularly prescription opioids, has increased dramatically in recent years and has been identified as a national public health epidemic, with West Virginia among the states with the largest opioid misuse and diversion problem. A set of clinical tools, guidelines, and recommendations are now available for prescribers who treat pain patients with opioids.
Applying Best Practices to Prevent, Identify and Manage Prescription Misuse
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$45.00
According to the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, more than 6 million Americans are misusing prescription drugs.  In 2015, Governor Baker announced that Massachusetts was in the midst of an opioid epidemic.  In 2019, there were 1,952 confirmed opioid-related overdose deaths.  The number of deaths continued to rise in 2020 with over 2,100 confirmed opioid-related overdose deaths which was a 5% increase over the previous year.
Preparing Residents for Fellowship: A Novel Mock Interview Program
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
The objective of this study was to increase trainees’ confidence entering fellowship interviews and prepare them for commonly encountered questions via a mock interview program.
Common Variable Immune Deficiency: An Outpatient Experience
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
In this article, the authors’ objectives were to establish a simple marker that can be used in a primary care setting to raise suspicion of CVID and prompt further diagnostic testing and to demonstrate that the true prevalence of CVID is much higher than previously reported.
Important Advances in Pediatric Injury Prevention
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
In this article, the authors present an overview of the more common pediatric injuries along with key components of injury-prevention strategies, specifically addressing the following injuries: motor vehicle crashes (with a section on teen driver crashes, sleep-related injury, and death), poisoning, all-terrain vehicle crashes, drowning, and firearm injuries.
Access to Care: Safety of Medication Abortion - Frankly Speaking EP 281
  • 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
Clinicians may hesitate to provide medication abortion without first performing a pelvic ultrasound or pelvic examination, but recent data may give clinicians more confidence in their decision to do so. This episode explores the evidence for the safety of telehealth-based, or no-test screening, approaches to providing medication abortion for pregnant women at less than 10 weeks’ gestation. Episode references and resource links: 
A Primer on Monkeypox - Frankly Speaking EP 282
  • 0.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
$0.00
Monkeypox is endemic in certain parts of Africa, but outbreaks in Europe and North America have recently occurred. While still uncommon, clinicians need to be alert to the possibility of this diagnosis. This podcast gives you the tools you need to identify risk factors and distinguish the disease from other infections.Episode References and Resources: 

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