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FAMILY MEDICINE
The number one reason why we offer
this course to family practice physicians is because the course is
taught primarily by the sub-specialist lecturer. This affords us as
family practice physicians a rare and coveted luxury: quality
teaching time with the specialists: cardiology, Pulmonology,
radiology, dermatology, otorhinolaryngology, oromaxillofacial
surgery, orthopedics, general surgery, oncology, infectious disease,
to name a few. After each lecture and during the entire course you
will have access to speak with and discuss your questions with any
of the speaker subspecialists.
Who is this best suited for? This CME
event is best suited for family practice physicians because it has
been designed and planned by family practice physicians working
together with physicians from other areas of primary care. Our
needs as family physicians are met by the broad areas/topics covered
during each CME event/course. Course content includes topics drawn
from most common causes of death (cardiovascular disease (heart
attack), neurovascular disease (stroke, etc), pulmonary disease,
diabetes and also topics of interest such as dermatology,
orthopedics, etc. With this multidisciplinary design and course
content which provides very broad based content you will find this
course very intellectually stimulating. Prior attendees have said
that this is a course filled with clinical pearls. You will not
want to miss a moment of it.
The 3 biggest mistakes made my family
practice physicians.
1. Misdiagnosing the patient with a cardiac abnormality. This can
involve something as not correctly interpreting an EKG to not
properly managing a patient with hypertension or congestive heart
failure.
2.
Misdiagnosing the patient with a neurologic abnormality. Patients
who present with numbness or paresthesia are often sent home without
appropriate neurologic assessment, exam and diagnostic workup. This
can result in cerebrovascular accident (stroke) or in progression of
intracranial masses (tumors) such that the problem is formally
diagnosed until the patient has a life altering event which causes
permanent paralysis or death. This too, can easily, result in
successful litigation against the family practice physician.
3.
Misdiagnosing and treating the patient with a potentially serious
pulmonary infection. Many of the patients we see with respiratory
infections have self-limiting illnesses. However a certain
percentage have illness of viral, bacterial or fungal origin that is
of a much more serious nature. In order to properly manage these
patients we need to keep up to date on our knowledge of pulmonary
medicine. PearlsMED speakers will ensure that you are aware of the
latest advances in the diagnosis and management of the most common
life threatening illnesses and any rare life threatening pulmonary
infections which you may encounter in the family practice setting.
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