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55+ evidence-based learning activities featuring the skills clinical preceptors

12-Lead ECG Interpretation Video: A Primary Care Perspective

Code: TEC3OL    Contact Hours: 2.4    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.8

Program Objectives:

  1. Describe a systematic approach to assessing the 12-lead ECG.
  2. Identify the critical electrocardiogram changes seen in acute coronary syndrome including myocardial ischemia, injury and infarct.
  3. Identify the pattern of additional common ECG alterations (left ventricular hypertrophy, atrial hypertrophy, axis deviation, others).

Abdominal and Pelvic Pain Evaluation: From Differential Diagnosis to Diagnostic Imaging

Code: ABPPOL    Contact Hours: 3.5    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 3

Program Objectives:

  1. Effectively evaluate the patient presenting with acute abdominal pain.
  2. Differentiate the etiology of the abdominal pain based on symptoms, history and clinical findings leading to considerable differential diagnoses.
  3. Utilize critical thinking in choosing diagnostic testing modalities based on patient complaints.

Abdominal Pain: Differential Diagnosis

Code: DAB3OL    Contact Hours: 1.6    RX Hours: 0.8    Course Length: 1.3

Program Objectives:

  1. State red flag/alarm symptoms that would prompt a detailed work-up.
  2. Verbalize diagnostics appropriate for specific symptomology.
  3. Identify differential diagnosis based on presenting symptoms.

Acne and Rosacea: Pharmacologic intervention

Code: CFAR2OL    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 1.1    Course Length: 1.2

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify the pathophysiology of acne and rosacea.
  2. Describe the most effective pharmacologic approaches for treatment.
  3. Recognize new indications and cautions for established products.

Allergic Urticaria Acute and Chronic: Diagnosis and Management

Code: AUDMOL    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 1.1    Course Length: 1.2

Program Objectives:

  1. Develop strategies for developing the correct diagnosis of acute and/or chronic allergic urticaria and subsequent management.
  2. Interpret evidence-based data for evidence-based therapies in use for acute and/or chronic urticaria.

Anemia Assessment and Intervention: Common and Not So Common

Code: DDA6OL    Contact Hours: 1.8    RX Hours: 1.8    Course Length: 1.5

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify the appropriate use of laboratory testing as part of the evaluation process of the person presenting with anemia.
  2. Discuss the clinical utility of commonly ordered hematologic laboratory parameters as part of the evaluation process of the person with anemia.

Atopic Dermatitis: Treatment and care

Code: ADTP2OL    Contact Hours: 1.1    RX Hours: 0.5    Course Length: 0.87

Program Objectives:

  1. Recognize symptoms and causes of atopic dermatitis.
  2. Review the tests and exams necessary for immediate treatment, diagnosis and care.
  3. Outline and implement follow up care.
  4. Become familiar with recent updates on the latest research, trials and interventions.

Cardiac Exam: Hone Your Skills Identifying Heart Sounds and Murmurs

Code: HYCEOL    Contact Hours: 3.3    RX Hours: 0.3    Course Length: 2.7

Program Objectives:

  1. Obtain a symptom-focused health history for the person with or at risk for cardiovascular disease.
  2. Describe common disorders affecting the cardiac cycle.
  3. Identify the components and significance of findings in the symptom-focused cardiac exam.

Cardiac Rhythms: The Clinician's Approach to Accurate Interpretation

Code: CRAI2OL    Contact Hours: 4.1    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 3.5

Program Objectives:

  1. Describe the normal electrical conduction pathway of the heart.
  2. Discuss two mechanisms of dysrhythmia.
  3. Analyze the clinical significance of the P wave, QRS complex, QT interval, and T wave.
  4. Identify abnormal atrial, ventricular, junctional, and pacemaker rhythms on rhythm strip.
  5. Identify atrioventricular and infranodal block on rhythm strip.
  6. Evaluate the clinical significance of the abnormal rhythms presented

Chest Pain Evaluation: From Differential Diagnosis to Diagnostic Imaging

Code: CPEVOL    Contact Hours: 4.3    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 3.5

Program Objectives:

  1. Effectively evaluate the patient presenting with acute chest pain.
  2. Differentiate the etiology of the chest pain based on symptoms, history and clinical findings leading to considerable differential diagnoses.

Chest X-ray Interpretation: A Primary Care Approach

Code: CHXR2OL    Contact Hours: 2.2    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.8

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify components of a plain radiograph.
  2. Differentiate various markings on a normal and abnormal chest radiograph.
  3. Analyze a chest radiograph and identify normal from abnormal.
  4. Identify normal from abnormal findings on a chest radiograph.
  5. Understand the foundational components of a chest radiograph.

Coming to an Exam Room Near You: Assessment, Prevention, and Treatment of Mumps, Measles, Rubella, Pertussis, and Varicella

Code: MMRPOL    Contact Hours: 1.8    RX Hours: 0.8    Course Length: 1.6

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify the mode of transmission of measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and varicella.
  2. Recognize the clinical presentation of measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and varicella.
  3. Describe the plan of diagnosis and care for the above-mentioned vaccinepreventable diseases.

Dental Examinations: Identifying Common Disorders

Code: DENTOL    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.5

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify key components of a thorough oral and dental examination.
  2. Differentiate normal and abnormal examination findings.
  3. Formulate diagnosis and differential diagnoses based on examination findings.

Dermatology: Diagnosing and identifying common conditions and lesions

Code: EDID2OL    Contact Hours: 1.3    RX Hours: 0.1    Course Length: 1.3

Program Objectives:

  1. Describe basic skin function.
  2. Identify common skin conditions.
  3. Formulate treatment modalitiesfor common skin conditions and lesions

Dermatology: Diagnosis and Treatment of Ethnic Skin - Color blind and color smart

Code: IDPS2OL    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 0.4    Course Length: 1.23

Program Objectives:

  1. Introduce the history of skin color in the specialty of dermatology.
  2. Identify common cutaneous and pigmentary disorders and infections.
  3. Present key differences of treatment from traditional management choices.
  4. Recognize skin cancer in ethnic skin (ES) or skin of color (SOC)

Dermatology: Help My Child. Topics, diagnosis and treatment of common pediatric dermatologic conditions

Code: CPDCOL    Contact Hours: 1.3    RX Hours: 0.7    Course Length: 1.02

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify common benign and pathologic dermatologic disorders of the newborn.
  2. Assess and intervene in commonly encountered acute health problems in child with a dermatologic component including arthropod reactions, spider bites, Kawasaki syndrome, others.
  3. Describe best prescribing practices in common benign disorders of children and adolescence.
  4. Become familiar in discussing the growing trend of tattoos, with safety tips providers need to share, and special emphasis on treating common reactions, side effects, and removal options.

Dermatology FUNdamentals: Beginning Basics for the Novice

Code: dfun    Contact Hours: 2    RX Hours: 0.4    Course Length: 1.8

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify basic principles of skin function and evaluation.
  2. Describe the most necessary techniques to master in dermatology.
  3. Formulate treatment plans for the most common conditions.

Dermatology in the Older Adult

Code: GYUT2OL    Contact Hours: 0.7    RX Hours: 0.2    Course Length: 0.6

Program Objectives:

  1. Describe the integument in later years.
  2. Identify the most common benign geriatric skin conditions.
  3. Create effective treatment plans for common geriatric skin conditions.

Dizziness, Vertigo, and Syncope: Assessment and treatment

Code: EDS3OL    Contact Hours: 1.7    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.47

Program Objectives:

  1. Differentiate among causes of syncope, near syncope, vertigo, and ataxia including adverse drug effects.
  2. Analyze differences between central and peripheral vertigo.
  3. Evaluate pharmacologic interventions for the disorders presented.

Evaluation in Immunologic and Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders

Code: LDR4OL    Contact Hours: 1.6    RX Hours: 1.6    Course Length: 1.3

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify commonly encountered laboratory tests to assist in the diagnosis of select autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
  2. Correlate the results of laboratory findings with patient presentation in select autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.

Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders: Evaluation and Management of Common Fluid and Electrolyte Disorders

Code: MFED2OL    Contact Hours: 1.4    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.12

Program Objectives:

  1. The practitioner will gain an understanding of the basic physiological principles governing the management of IV fluid administration and the management of electrolyte disorders.
  2. Review the various fluid compartments within the body.
  3. Review the composition of the ICF compartment and the ECF fluid compartment.
  4. Review fluid and solute movement between the ICF and ECF compartments.
  5. Discuss the goal of fluid therapy.
  6. Discuss the various fluid types used in fluid replacement and why they are utilized.
  7. Summarize the function of electrolytes, review signs and symptoms of electrolyte disorders and discuss treatment of such disorders.
  8. Discuss maintenance fluids, fluid deficit replacement, third space and blood loss replacement.

GI and Hepatology Case Studies

Code: GIHEPOL    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 0.3    Course Length: 1.3

Program Objectives:

  1. Verbalize the work up for chronic diarrhea.
  2. Explain the work up for abdominal pain with jaundice.

Heart Failure Management: Detection and Treatment

Code: HFMOL    Contact Hours: 1.9    RX Hours: 0.3    Course Length: 1.6

Program Objectives:

  1. Understand how to recognize, diagnose and treat acute heart failure in the emergency department, inpatient and office settings.

Hepatic Function Assessment

Code: LFT5OL    Contact Hours: 2.1    RX Hours: 2.1    Course Length: 1.8

Program Objectives:

  1. Discuss the clinical utility of commonly ordered hepatic laboratory tests such as hepatic enzymes, albumin, INR, bilirubin, and others, as part of the differential diagnosis process.
  2. Discuss the clinical utility of commonly ordered hepatic laboratory tests such as hepatic enzymes, albumin, INR, bilirubin, and others, as part of the differential diagnosis process.

Inflammation: Assessing, Preventing and Treating this Common Denominator in a Variety of Diseases

Code: IAPTOL    Contact Hours: 1.3    RX Hours: 0.7    Course Length: 1.03

Program Objectives:

  1. Describe the process, contributing factors and clinical consequences of inflammation.
  2. Identify select diagnostic testing that can help reveal clinically significant inflammation.
  3. Discover what measures are potentially helpful to minimize inflammatory risk.

Laboratory Diagnosis: Challenging Cases

Code: CCLD3OL    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.3

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify the appropriate use of laboratory testing as part of the differential diagnosis process.
  2. Discuss commonly monitored laboratory in the differential diagnosis process.

Laboratory Diagnostics: A focus on renal insufficiency and failure

Code: ERFU4OL    Contact Hours: 1.8    RX Hours: 1.8    Course Length: 1.6

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify the appropriate use of laboratory testing as part of the clinical evaluation process of the person with or at-risk for renal impairment.
  2. Discuss the clinical utility of select hematologic and renal laboratory parameters in renal impairment.
  3. Identify the impact of renal impairment on prescribing select medications.

Laboratory Monitoring During Drug Therapy

Code: RSD5OL    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 1.5    Course Length: 1.3

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify the appropriate use of laboratory diagnostics during select drug therapy.
  2. Discuss commonly monitored laboratory parameters such a hepatic enzymes, hematologic and renal parameters; as well as, the role of these tests in laboratory monitoring during select drug therapy.
  3. Describe the use of laboratory monitoring for clinical effect and toxicity in select narrow therapeutic index medications.

Management of Thyroid Disorders:Too many, too little, masses

Code: ECTD4OL    Contact Hours: 1.9    RX Hours: 1.9    Course Length: 1.7

Program Objectives:

  1. Discuss the pathophysiology of common thyroid disorders.
  2. Identify expected laboratory findings in common thyroid disorders including TSH, free T4, total T4, T3, reverse T3, and TPO antibodies.
  3. Discuss treatment options for the person with select thyroid disorders including thyroid masses.

Medical Imaging of Upper and Lower Extremities: Interpretation of Normal and Abnormal Findings

Code: EFMIOL    Contact Hours: 4.6    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 3.7

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify normal findings on plain radiographs of the upper and lower extremities including adult and pediatric considerations.
  2. Differentiate normal from abnormal findings on the plain radiograph of upper and lower extremity images.
  3. Utilize screening tools and evidence based practice guidelines to determine appropriate medical imaging studies based on the mechanism of injury.

Ophthalmology Examinations: Identifying Common Disorders

Code: OPTHOL    Contact Hours: 1.6    RX Hours: 0.2    Course Length: 1.3

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify key components of a thorough ophthalmologic examination.
  2. Differentiate normal and abnormal examination findings.
  3. Formulate diagnosis and differential diagnoses based on examination findings.

Orthopedic Extremities Evaluation: Upper and Lower

Code: ORTEOL    Contact Hours: 9    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 6.5

Program Objectives:

  1. Conduct an accurate history and physical examination.
  2. Differentiate between and order appropriate imaging in orthopedic extremity evaluation.
  3. Review diagnostic imaging results and studies.
  4. Develop a plan of care for patients with upper and lower extremity disorders and injuries.
  5. Recommend appropriate referral.

Preoperative Assessment: Optimizing Outcomes

Code: PREOP2OL    Contact Hours: 1.6    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.4

Program Objectives:

  1. Demonstrate knowledge of the myths and facts related to preoperative clearance.
  2. Apply to practice knowledge of current and future trends for surgical procedures done in the United States.
  3. Demonstrate knowledge of the American Society of Anesthesiologists risk stratification of patients undergoing surgery.
  4. Improve practice based on the knowledge learned from evidence-based recommendations for preoperative patient preparation, including: Diagnostic and ancillary testing needed according to patient comorbidities, age, and types of surgery proposed.

Pulmonary Function Testing: Demystifying this Important Diagnostic Tool

Code: DPFTOL    Contact Hours: 1.3    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1

Program Objectives:

  1. Outline the basic pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and their uses.
  2. Describe the technique of spirometry.
  3. Explain how to interpret spirometry results.

Radiology Diagnostic Fundamentals: When & What to Order

Code: RADXOL    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.5

Program Objectives:

  1. Understand fundamental concepts of the 5 testing modalities.
  2. Differentiate between imaging modalities.
  3. Identify key factors in determining appropriate diagnostic test to order.

Skin Cancer: Best practices in diagnosing non-melanoma

Code: BPSC3OL    Contact Hours: 0.9    RX Hours: 0.2    Course Length: 0.7

Program Objectives:

  1. Describe the incidence and epidemiology of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC).
  2. Identify clinical characteristics and treatment paradigms of NMSC.
  3. Demonstrate awareness for skin cancer prevention.

Spine Imaging Criteria and Interpretation: Cervical, Thoracic, and Lumbar

Code: CTLSMIOL    Contact Hours: 2.6    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 2.1

Program Objectives:

  1. Identify normal findings on plain radiographs of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine including adult and pediatric considerations.
  2. Differentiate normal from abnormal findings on the plain radiograph of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine images.
  3. Utilize screening tools and evidence based practice guidelines to determine appropriate medical imaging studies based on the mechanism of injury.

Suturing Skills: The Art of Wound Repair

Code: SUTR3OL    Contact Hours: 3.9    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 3.3

Program Objectives:

  1. Verbalize clinically-appropriate wound care practices.
  2. Articulate the value of the history of patient factors.
  3. Discuss current CDC guidelines for tetanus immunization.
  4. Differentiate between amides and their duration of action.
  5. Learn how to reduce pain during local infiltration.
  6. Demonstrate knowledge of wound preparation, the materials required for wound repair and the appropriate use of a given product.
  7. Perform the “keystone” or simple suture.
  8. Differentiate between suture types.
  9. Review suture removal guidelines.
  10. Review adjunctive closures.
  11. Identify the statistics on lacerations.
  12. Describe the five age groups that present in practice.
  13. Recognize the where and why of lacerations.
  14. Apply the goals of wound management.

Telehealth: Providing exceptional patient care remotely

Code: tele    Contact Hours: 1.4    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.1

Program Objectives:

  1. Understand the benefits of telehealth.
  2. Describe different platforms available for delivering virtual care.
  3. Define nuances for appropriate documentation of telehealth visits

Ticked Off: Myths, Truths, and Realities of Tick-Borne Infections

Code: TICKOL    Contact Hours: 1.6    RX Hours: 0.4    Course Length: 1.3

Program Objectives:

  1. Differentiate between types of tick-borne diseases.
  2. Recognize clinical presentation of specific infections.
  3. Understand current therapies to treat specific tick-borne and vector borne diseases.
  4. Interpret findings of laboratory testing.

Transgender Patient Essential Care: Making Healthcare Trans-parent

Code: TRANSOL    Contact Hours: 1.6    RX Hours: 0.3    Course Length: 1.4

Program Objectives:

  1. Describe the appropriate language used when caring for the transgender client.
  2. Explain the differences between gender identity, gender dysphoria and transgender.
  3. Discuss and apply WPATH standards of care for transgender clients.
  4. Explain how to transition clients into the primary care office.
  5. Understand legal implications and documentation for gender affirming surgery.

Vitamins, Minerals, and Herbs: Show Me the Evidence

Code: CUVM    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.23

Program Objectives:

  1. Recognize indications and therapeutic actions of commonly used herb, mineral, and vitamin therapies.
  2. Identify potential problems with the use of commonly prescribed herbal, mineral, and vitamin therapies.

WBC Count and Differential: Analysis of the WBC Count and Differential

Code: WBC4OL    Contact Hours: 1.5    RX Hours: 0    Course Length: 1.3

Program Objectives:

  1. Describe the components of the WBC count and differential.
  2. Identify alterations in the WBC count and its differential influenced by infection, genetic conditions, select health issues, and use of common medications.