How to not get burned.
Improve communication between medical provider and patient to enhance engagement and the quality of services.
- Understand the balance between “patient and customer”
- Review strategies to integrate effective communication skills for enhanced bedside interactions
- Evaluate cognitive errors and common bias traps
- Review pearls of medical malpractice defense
- Documentation and discharge instructions pearls
How to Not Burn Out
- “Remember your essay” Evaluating the reason you got into medicine
- Finding honesty in our limitations and flaws
- Evaluate faith vs fear in the practice of medicine
Abdominal Pain
- Apply a systematic approach to a patient with acute abdominal pain based on AFP guidelines
- Determine and avoid common pitfalls in the assessment of patients with abdominal pain
- Detect and assess high-risk scenarios related to patients with abdominal pain
Chest Pain:
- Differentiate the clinical features of various causes of chest pain
- Identify infectious causes of chest pain based on clinical presentation and evaluation
- Develop an approach to the patient with chest pain based on current AHA/ACC guidelines Calculate the HEART Score of a patient with chest pain
- Employ the ACCF/AHA Guideline based management strategies for chest pain
- Recognize when to refer patients for more advanced cardiac care
Dyspnea:
- Diagnose the 5 most important diseases associated with dyspnea
- Recognize the presentation of CHF for early identification and recommend treatment options based on current AHA/ACC guidelines to improve patient outcomes
- Identify and treat asthma based on current guidelines from the Global Initiative in Asthma
Rashes:
- Review common rashes that are self-limiting
- Evaluate fungal, viral and bacterial rashes
- Review treatment options to common rashes in the urgent care
Addiction/ETOH & Opiates
- Review the evaluation of those presenting for ETOH/Opiate withdrawal
- Review features of addiction and urgent care appropriate intervention
- Stabilization medications review for those in acute withdrawal
Eyes:
- Review the anatomy and physiology of the eye, including visual acuity
- Review common eye complaints, corneal abrasions, conjunctivitis and eyelid lesions
- Evaluate vision threatening injuries and make appropriate referral
ENT:
- Review pathology of ear and external canal.
- Review evaluation and treatment of otitis media
- Evaluate hearing loss and foreign body in external canal
- Evaluate Epistaxis both anterior and posterior
- Evaluate pharyngitis