Highlights Archive: April 2024
Here you'll find the latest news and featured highlights from Clinician Resources.
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Featured Grand Rounds
Renovations in the House of Medicine
Dr. Joseph Hill discusses the history of cardiovascular disease management and the evolution of cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the world. He describes advances in research to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease and its common comorbidities, diabetes and obesity.
CME credit available
Read MoreAstro-Ethics: Grand Ethical Challenges for Safeguarding Human Health in Outer Space
Dr. Eric Bershad, Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta, and Senior Biomedical Engineer Jimmy Wu discuss ethical considerations of monitoring, treating, and conducting research on people taking part in space flight operations.
CME credit available
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Functional Neurological Disorder (FND) Awareness Month
Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder: Practice Updates for Psychiatrists
Dr. Julia Ridgeway-Diaz discusses functional neurological symptom disorder diagnosis and current recommendations for management. She explains relevant physiology, diagnostic work-up, symptoms, and treatments through the example of a patient case report.
CME credit available
Minority Health Month
Health Inequity: What Is at the Root of It All?
Dr. Veronica Gillispie-Bell discusses institutional and structural racism and how they lead to health disparities. She describes strategies to reduce inequity in healthcare access and outcomes.
CME credit available
Alcohol Awareness Month
Medication Assisted Treatment for Alcohol Use Disorder
Dr. Colleen Keough discusses pharmaceutical treatment options for patients with a substance abuse disorder, particularly alcohol and opioid use disorders. She focuses on practice recommendations for general internists, and includes resources for screening tools and overdose prevention.
CME credit available
Sarcoidosis Awareness Day
Clinicopathologic Conference: A (M)omentous Finding
Dr. Neha Venkatesh shares the case of a 45-year-old man with a history of sarcoidosis, essential hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus who presented with a one-month history of fevers, night sweats, unintentional weight loss, and new-onset ascites.
CME credit available
On-Demand Activities You May Have Missed
Harm Reduction As Best Practice in Addiction Treatment
Harm Reduction As Best Practice in Addiction Treatment
Justin Alves, Clinical Nurse Educator, discusses the philosophy of harm reduction and the strategies for safer substance consumption when treating patients with addiction.
CME credit available
On-Demand Activities You May Have Missed
Read MoreFirearm Safety
Firearm Safety
This activity guides clinicians through the importance of speaking with patients about firearm safety. Strategies about when and how to have these conversations are provided.
CME credit available
On-Demand Activities You May Have Missed
Read MoreUpcoming Conference
Pediatric Aortopathy Symposium 2024
Pediatric Aortopathy Symposium 2024
This activity will help attendees to more accurately diagnose and care for children with genetic aortopathies, and will provide updates on this population research to aid in improving long-term outcomes.
May 10 - 11, 2024
CME credit available
Read More8th Annual Neuromuscular Disorders Seminar
8th Annual Neuromuscular Disorders Seminar
This seminar is designed to have national and world experts talk about emerging therapies and updates on different neuromuscular disorders such as chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, neuromuscular complications of cancer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and myasthenia gravis.
April 27, 2024
CME credit available
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