Topics in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine

Topics in Family Medicine and Emergency Medicine is a Western Caribbean Cruise round-trip from Ft. Lauderdale.

Topics

• The Magnitude of the Opioid Epidemic
• The Opioid Epidemic: How we got here, how we move forward
• BRIEF ( SBIRT) Effective Counseling
• Screening Staging Techniques
• The parameters of blood pressures that need emergency treatment
• Their Blood Pressure was What? Who needs what , when and where?
• Updates in DVT PE--ICU or Home
• Best practice treatment options for management of abnormal blood pressures
• Parameters that make a patient with thromboembolism low or high risk
• The use of validated criteria to measure risk of early mortality in venous thromboembolism
• Common sense approach to back pain
• Life threatening PEs vs appropriate discharge strategies
• `red flags` for those etiologies of back pain that need emergency evaluation
• List examples of the many medical causes of back pain
• Beyond "clumsy" Recognizing and assisting victims of intimate partner violence
• Emergency treatment options for common causes of back pain
• How to perform consistent and effective screening for domestic violence (DV) in Emergency care
• The magnitude of intimate partner violence
• List opportunities and successful methods for intervention and prevention
• History and physical exam findings that are consistent with patterns of abuse in clinical scenarios
• The terms biological sex and gender and how both can impact patient emergent care
• Sex and Gender Medicine - What it is and why you should care
• The importance of including sex and gender in the clinical care of patients with emergent psychiatric conditions
• Mind Games: Sex Based Differences in Mental Health
• Disease Prevention Update Part 1: The Latest Guidelines and Recommendations
• Evidence Based Medicine in Primary Care: What NOT to do!
• Upper Respiratory Tract Infections Update and Vertigo
• Disease Prevention Update Part 2: The Latest Guidelines and Recommendations
• Common Fungal Skin Infections
• My Child Has a Rash
• Approach to the Surgical Abdomen

Who should Attend

• Physician Assistants
• Physicians
• Nurse Practitioners
• Nurses
• Pharmacists