Continuing Medical Education: Pulmonary Medicine CME: Continuing Education Inc.: General Medicine Review: Pulmonary: Cruise Conference CME: March 8 - 15, 2009

• By Continuing Education, Inc.
• Published 09/2/2008
• Pulmonary Medicine
• Rating: Unrated

General Medicine Review: Pulmonary

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These programs are designed for the specific purpose of allowing the busy professional to obtain the educational course credits required to maintain licensure, while at the same time enjoying a family holiday without spending too much time away from his or her practice.

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Continuing Education Inc.

Location:
7-Night Western Caribbean Cruise from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

Course Directors/Instructors:
Mark J. Rumbak, M.D.
Jennifer Cox, M.D.

Course Fee:
Physicians $695
All Others $450

Number of Credits:
14 CME Category 1 Credits
14 Contact Hours

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Detailed Description:

The purpose of this CME activity is to review current diagnosis and management of patients with acute and chronic pulmonary diseases with particular emphasis on sleep disorders.

Preliminary Objectives for activity:

• Discuss the importance of proper chest pain diagnosis
• Appreciate the utility and shortcomings of the PSI and CURB-65
• Differentiate between imaging methods used in diagnosing DVT
• List the most common barriers to quitting smoking
• Review the epidemiology of asthma
• Outline the most common sleep state disorders
• Define insomnia disease state and describe approaches to diagnose and assess insomnia based on standard criteria
• Evaluate Obstructive Sleep Apnea
• Review the latest treatment options for COPD
• Evaluate chronic cough
• Assess Dyspnea
• Discuss lung cancer diagnosis and treatment

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