Continuing Education Company 15th Annual Essentials in Primary Care Fall Conference 2024 Session II

This CEC conference reviews common decisions in outpatient primary care, from cardiovascular prevention and hypertension to diabetes, kidney disease, and infection management. Session II of the 15th Annual Essentials in Primary Care Fall Conference took place November 11–15, 2024, at Hawks Cay Resort in Duck Key, Florida, with an online participation option. The program includes asthma and angioedema, perimenopausal and perinatal mental health, office orthopedics, and perioperative assessment. Lectures and case-based sessions connect these subjects to everyday work in family medicine and internal medicine. The material is relevant to physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants seeking a broad clinical review.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the original educational activity, participants should be better able to:

1. Utilize contemporary clinical guidelines in the diagnosis and management of common conditions encountered in primary care.
2. Apply diagnostic reasoning and evidence-based medical management to a broad range of outpatient conditions.
3. Develop interventions that reduce modifiable risk factors and support improved long-term patient outcomes.
4. Review cardiovascular prevention in obesity, peripheral arterial disease, and contemporary outpatient hypertension management.
5. Apply important asthma guideline updates and evaluate patients presenting with angioedema.
6. Recognize and manage mood, anxiety, and cognitive concerns associated with perimenopause, pregnancy, and the postpartum period.
7. Perform appropriate office-based musculoskeletal assessment and review perioperative cardiac risk and medication management.
8. Apply relevant recommendations involving sexually transmitted infections, outpatient antimicrobial prescribing, cellulitis, and gastrointestinal disease.
9. Integrate contemporary obesity treatment, diabetes technology, and kidney-protective approaches into primary care.

Program and package scope: The timetable below is the original conference agenda, with approximately 20 scheduled teaching hours, excluding announcements and breaks. It does not establish the number or duration of supplied recordings or PDFs. Conference registration, live streaming, attendance, publisher accounts, travel arrangements, and publisher-hosted extras are not included.

Topics

MONDAY, November 11, 2024

• 7:55 am – 8:00 am: Conference Announcements — W. Ejnes, CHCP

• 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Cardiovascular Prevention in Patients with Obesity: Understanding the Role of GLP1RA — M. Cavender, MD

• 9:00 am – 10:00 am: Guide to Lower Extremity Peripheral Arterial Disease (PAD) — M. Cavender, MD

• 10:00 am: BREAK

• 10:15 am – 11:15 am: NHLBI Focused Updates to the Asthma Management Guidelines — A. Baptist, MD

• 11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Angioedema – Or What To Do With Your Patient Who Swells — A. Baptist, MD

TUESDAY, November 12, 2024

• 7:55 am – 8:00 am: Conference Announcements — W. Ejnes, CHCP

• 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Perimenopause: Focus on Mood and Cognition — L. Osbourne, MD

• 9:00 am – 10:00 am: Management of Mood and Anxiety Disorders During Pregnancy and Postpartum — L. Osbourne, MD

• 10:00 am: BREAK

• 10:15 am – 11:15 am: Controversies in Hypertension: Testing What You Know — J. Basile, MD

• 11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Managing Hypertension in the Outpatient Setting: A Case-Based Approach — J. Basile, MD

WEDNESDAY, November 13, 2024

• 7:55 am – 8:00 am: Conference Announcements — W. Ejnes, CHCP

• 8:00 am – 10:00 am: Office Orthopedics in Primary Care — J. Post, MD

• 10:00 am: BREAK

• 10:15 am – 11:15 am: Decision Making in Perioperative Cardiac Medicine: A Case-Based Approach — S. Cohn, MD

• 11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Perioperative Medication Management — S. Cohn, MD

THURSDAY, November 14, 2024

• 7:55 am – 8:00 am: Conference Announcements — W. Ejnes, CHCP

• 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Sexually Transmitted Infections – The Current CDC Recommendations — D. Weismiller, MD

• 9:00 am – 10:00 am: Key Updates: Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract (Good, Better, How?) — D. Weismiller, MD

• 10:00 am: BREAK

• 10:15 am – 11:15 am: Head to Toe Antibiotics – Treatment Decisions for Common Outpatient Infections — A. Urban, MD

• 11:15 am – 12:15 pm: Cellulitis Update – It’s More Than Skin Deep! — A. Urban, MD

FRIDAY, November 15, 2024

• 7:55 am – 8:00 am: Conference Announcements — W. Ejnes, CHCP

• 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Treating Obesity to Treat Diabetes: Cutting the Gordian Knot — M. McDonnell, MD

• 9:00 am – 10:00 am: Update on Diabetes Technology in the Management of Diabetes — M. McDonnell, MD

• 10:00 am: BREAK

• 10:15 am – 11:15 am: Integrating CKD into Primary Care: Bridging the Knowledge and Implementation Gaps — M. Weir, MD

• 11:15 am – 12:15 pm: What’s New in the Treatment of Diabetic Kidney Disease — M. Weir, MD