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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:
- Describe a systematic approach to assessing the 12-lead ECG.
- Identify the critical electrocardiogram changes seen in acute coronary syndrome including myocardial ischemia, injury and infarct.
- 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:
- Effectively evaluate the patient presenting with acute abdominal pain.
- Differentiate the etiology of the abdominal pain based on symptoms, history and clinical findings leading to considerable differential diagnoses.
- 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:
- State red flag/alarm symptoms that would prompt a detailed work-up.
- Verbalize diagnostics appropriate for specific symptomology.
- 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:
- Identify the pathophysiology of acne and rosacea.
- Describe the most effective pharmacologic approaches for treatment.
- 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:
- Develop strategies for developing the correct diagnosis of acute and/or chronic allergic urticaria and subsequent management.
- 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:
- Identify the appropriate use of laboratory testing as part of the evaluation process of the person presenting with anemia.
- 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:
- Recognize symptoms and causes of atopic dermatitis.
- Review the tests and exams necessary for immediate treatment, diagnosis and care.
- Outline and implement follow up care.
- 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:
- Obtain a symptom-focused health history for the person with or at risk for cardiovascular disease.
- Describe common disorders affecting the cardiac cycle.
- 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:
- Describe the normal electrical conduction pathway of the heart.
- Discuss two mechanisms of dysrhythmia.
- Analyze the clinical significance of the P wave, QRS complex, QT interval, and T wave.
- Identify abnormal atrial, ventricular, junctional, and pacemaker rhythms on rhythm strip.
- Identify atrioventricular and infranodal block on rhythm strip.
- 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:
- Effectively evaluate the patient presenting with acute chest pain.
- 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:
- Identify components of a plain radiograph.
- Differentiate various markings on a normal and abnormal chest radiograph.
- Analyze a chest radiograph and identify normal from abnormal.
- Identify normal from abnormal findings on a chest radiograph.
- 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:
- Identify the mode of transmission of measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and varicella.
- Recognize the clinical presentation of measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and varicella.
- 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:
- Identify key components of a thorough oral and dental examination.
- Differentiate normal and abnormal examination findings.
- 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:
- Describe basic skin function.
- Identify common skin conditions.
- 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:
- Introduce the history of skin color in the specialty of dermatology.
- Identify common cutaneous and pigmentary disorders and infections.
- Present key differences of treatment from traditional management choices.
- 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:
- Identify common benign and pathologic dermatologic disorders of the newborn.
- Assess and intervene in commonly encountered acute health problems in child with a dermatologic component including arthropod reactions, spider bites, Kawasaki syndrome, others.
- Describe best prescribing practices in common benign disorders of children and adolescence.
- 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:
- Identify basic principles of skin function and evaluation.
- Describe the most necessary techniques to master in dermatology.
- 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:
- Describe the integument in later years.
- Identify the most common benign geriatric skin conditions.
- 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:
- Differentiate among causes of syncope, near syncope, vertigo, and ataxia including adverse drug effects.
- Analyze differences between central and peripheral vertigo.
- 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:
- Identify commonly encountered laboratory tests to assist in the diagnosis of select autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
- 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:
- The practitioner will gain an understanding of the basic physiological principles governing the management of IV fluid administration and the management of electrolyte disorders.
- Review the various fluid compartments within the body.
- Review the composition of the ICF compartment and the ECF fluid compartment.
- Review fluid and solute movement between the ICF and ECF compartments.
- Discuss the goal of fluid therapy.
- Discuss the various fluid types used in fluid replacement and why they are utilized.
- Summarize the function of electrolytes, review signs and symptoms of electrolyte disorders and discuss treatment of such disorders.
- 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:
- Verbalize the work up for chronic diarrhea.
- 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:
- 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:
- 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.
- 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:
- Describe the process, contributing factors and clinical consequences of inflammation.
- Identify select diagnostic testing that can help reveal clinically significant inflammation.
- 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:
- Identify the appropriate use of laboratory testing as part of the differential diagnosis process.
- 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:
- Identify the appropriate use of laboratory testing as part of the clinical evaluation process of the person with or at-risk for renal impairment.
- Discuss the clinical utility of select hematologic and renal laboratory parameters in renal impairment.
- 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:
- Identify the appropriate use of laboratory diagnostics during select drug therapy.
- 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.
- 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:
- Discuss the pathophysiology of common thyroid disorders.
- Identify expected laboratory findings in common thyroid disorders including TSH, free T4, total T4, T3, reverse T3, and TPO antibodies.
- 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:
- Identify normal findings on plain radiographs of the upper and lower extremities including adult and pediatric considerations.
- Differentiate normal from abnormal findings on the plain radiograph of upper and lower extremity images.
- 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:
- Identify key components of a thorough ophthalmologic examination.
- Differentiate normal and abnormal examination findings.
- 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:
- Conduct an accurate history and physical examination.
- Differentiate between and order appropriate imaging in orthopedic extremity evaluation.
- Review diagnostic imaging results and studies.
- Develop a plan of care for patients with upper and lower extremity disorders and injuries.
- Recommend appropriate referral.
Preoperative Assessment: Optimizing Outcomes
Code: PREOP2OL Contact Hours: 1.6 RX Hours: 0 Course Length: 1.4
Program Objectives:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the myths and facts related to preoperative clearance.
- Apply to practice knowledge of current and future trends for surgical procedures done in the United States.
- Demonstrate knowledge of the American Society of Anesthesiologists risk stratification of patients undergoing surgery.
- 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:
- Outline the basic pulmonary function tests (PFTs) and their uses.
- Describe the technique of spirometry.
- 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:
- Understand fundamental concepts of the 5 testing modalities.
- Differentiate between imaging modalities.
- 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:
- Describe the incidence and epidemiology of nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC).
- Identify clinical characteristics and treatment paradigms of NMSC.
- 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:
- Identify normal findings on plain radiographs of the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine including adult and pediatric considerations.
- Differentiate normal from abnormal findings on the plain radiograph of cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine images.
- 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:
- Verbalize clinically-appropriate wound care practices.
- Articulate the value of the history of patient factors.
- Discuss current CDC guidelines for tetanus immunization.
- Differentiate between amides and their duration of action.
- Learn how to reduce pain during local infiltration.
- Demonstrate knowledge of wound preparation, the materials required for wound repair and the appropriate use of a given product.
- Perform the “keystone” or simple suture.
- Differentiate between suture types.
- Review suture removal guidelines.
- Review adjunctive closures.
- Identify the statistics on lacerations.
- Describe the five age groups that present in practice.
- Recognize the where and why of lacerations.
- 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:
- Understand the benefits of telehealth.
- Describe different platforms available for delivering virtual care.
- 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:
- Differentiate between types of tick-borne diseases.
- Recognize clinical presentation of specific infections.
- Understand current therapies to treat specific tick-borne and vector borne diseases.
- 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:
- Describe the appropriate language used when caring for the transgender client.
- Explain the differences between gender identity, gender dysphoria and transgender.
- Discuss and apply WPATH standards of care for transgender clients.
- Explain how to transition clients into the primary care office.
- 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:
- Recognize indications and therapeutic actions of commonly used herb, mineral, and vitamin therapies.
- 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:
- Describe the components of the WBC count and differential.
- Identify alterations in the WBC count and its differential influenced by infection, genetic conditions, select health issues, and use of common medications.