Northwest AHEC
Course Number: 72176
Practical Pediatrics Conference 2024
Apr 12, 2024 08:30 AM EDT - Apr 13, 2024 12:00 PM EDT
In-Person
Wake Forest University Bridger Field House
499 Deacon Blvd.
Winston Salem, NC 27105
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Lisa Thomas
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Event Description: This continuing medical education activity is intended for pediatricians, as well as family medicine physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and nurses who provide care to infants, children and adolescents.
Objectives
Participants will learn about the dangers their patients face when engaging online
Participants will gain practical and effective strategies to guide parents in their practice regarding online child safety
Learn how to help parents navigate a response when a child has experienced sextortion
How to engage law enforcement when a patient has been exploited
Highlight recent advances in the field of pediatric infectious diseases
Understand the different phases of hemostasis
Recognize clinical findings associated with congenital bleeding disorders
Understand the evaluation and treatment of acquired bleeding disorders
Clearly define adolescent AUB parameters that require workup vs reassurance.
List the necessary labwork for patients with AUB who meet metrics for workup
Create your own quick list of easy go-to treatments.
Participants will be able to recognize sentinel injuries in young children
Participants will understand when a report to CPS is warranted and the importance of making a report
Attendees will be able to apply the clinical decision rule on bruising to their clinical practice
Learn first steps in the evaluation of children and adolescents with obesity
Learn appropriate screening tests for common comorbidities
Understand the components of Intensive Health Behavior and Lifestyle Treatment for obesity
Become familiar with the pathophysiology of obesity and how anti-obesity medications treat this pathology.
Learn how to positively support patients undergoing obesity treatment in the primary care setting.
Recognize the importance of focusing on health behaviors, not weight loss, in eating disorder prevention.
Learn guidelines for lipid screening for children
Be familiar with treatment and referral recommendations
To provide an overview of specific learning disabilities.
To recognize risk factors and early signs of learning disabilities that can be identified in the primary care clinic.
Defining Type 2 Diabetes apart from other types of diabetes and prediabetes
Treatment options from oral to injectables
Participants will understand when to refer and when they can manage in primary care
Understand the differences between primary and secondary enuresis
Recognize categories of monosymptomatic and nonmonosymptomatic enuresis
Learn what treatments can be managed by primary care and when to refer
Available Credits
Speakers
Amanda Blair, MD
Gail M Cohen, MD, MS
Michelle J Curtin, DO
Karen R Gerancher, MD
Julianne Green, MD, PhD
Steve Hodges, MD
Darin Odier, Detective
Joseph A Skelton, MD
Stacy Thomas, MD
Elizabeth Walsh, MD
Lisa Watson, MSN, APRN, CPNP-PC