Continuing Medical Education: Infectious Disease CME: Continuing Education Inc.: Infectious Disease: Cruise Conference CME: April 4 - 18, 2009

• By Continuing Education, Inc.
• Published 09/2/2008
• Infectious Disease
• Rating: Unrated

Infectious Disease

Continuing Education, Inc.

Continuing Education Inc. is committed to developing and presenting the finest accredited continuing education programs for professionals that can be found. Our programs cover a wide range of disciplines including Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Accountancy, Insurance, Finance, Architecture, Engineering, and others.

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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CME Sponsor:

Continuing Education Inc.

Location:
Southeast Asia Discovery Cruise - Singapore to Hong Kong

Course Directors/Instructors:
John Sinnott, MD, FACP

Course Fee:
Physicians $695
Other Professionals  $450

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

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Detailed Description:
The purpose of this conference is to update practitioners on new antimicrobials and the current recommendations for managing commonly encountered or emerging diseases, travel medicine and potential biowarfare exposure.

Following attendance at this educational activity, participants should be able to:

• Review rules of travel
• Recognize common travel syndromes
• Identify value of Malarial prophylaxis
• Relate that lifestyle, social interactions, travel and food processing all contribute to the emergence of new pathogens
• Deduce that the emergence of new pathogens can to some extent be prevented by attention to ecology and antibiotic prescription
• Update the practicing healthcare provider with the history of influenza
• Update the practicing healthcare provider with the presentation of influenza
• Describe the pathophysiology of influenza
• Identify common pathogens encountered in influenza
• Summarize pandemic prevention strategies as well as public health and personal guidelines for the prevention of disease transmission
• Describe the presentation of pneumonia and SARS
• Explain the pathophysiology of pneumonia and SARS
• Identify common pathogens encountered in pneumonia
• Relate how to manage the patient with pneumonia both as inpatient and outpatient basis
• Recognize the historical significance in our understanding of nosocomial infections is the reduction of mortality
• Explain the epidemiology of nosocomial infections
• Review the management of common nosocomial infections
• Distinguish smallpox from other rashes
• Recognize inhalation anthrax
• Review the nature of biologic weapons

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