80049374 - Musculoskeletal Medicine for Primary Care Providers

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Date & Location
Saturday, September 14, 2019, 6:30 AM - 4:00 PM, Thomas B. Turner Building, Baltimore, MD

Target Audience
Specialties - Family Practice, General Practice, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics, Occupational Therapy, Physiatry, Physical Therapy

Overview
The goal of this course is to educate primary care providers to enhance basic skills and competencies in evaluation and management of common ambulatory musculoskeletal (MSK) complaints. In this course, our approach is multi-disciplinary and comprehensive, with speakers from rheumatology, orthopedics, spine, sports medicine, physical and occupational therapy. Hence, we aim to bring together expertise from different fields of MSK medicine to focus on 1) what is new in this field, 2) how to improve patient care and clinical outcomes and 3) how to enhance provider skills and confidence.


Objectives
  1. Differentiate inflammatory from non-inflammatory joint and back complaints.
  2. Design key diagnostic workup of MSK conditions including need for rheumatology, orthopedics, or sports medicine referral
  3. Describe basic principles of treatment with disease modifying agents in inflammatory arthritis.
  4. Describe basic principles of using injections and bracing in management of osteoarthritis.
  5. Define basic principles in the diagnosis and management of back pain.
  6. Identify the importance of medical optimization in orthopedic/joint replacement surgeries.
  7. Identify the role of physical and occupational therapy in MSK conditions.
  8. Discuss the role of psychological approach to pain management in MSK conditions.

Accreditation

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENT
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

POLICY ON SPEAKER AND PROVIDER DISCLOSURE
It is the policy of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine that the speaker and provider globally disclose conflicts of interest. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine OCME has established policies that will identify and resolve conflicts of interest prior to this educational activity. Detailed disclosure will be made prior to presentation of the education.

 

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