This session aims to refresh your knowledge and stimulate interest in performing a thorough and focused physical exam (PE), particularly in the geriatric population. Whether part of a Medicare evaluation or a routine office visit, the PE provides an opportunity to develop rapport, trust, and potentially to discover clinically significant findings that might otherwise have gone unrecognized. A series of brief scenarios will be used to illustrate important yet basic concepts such as differentiation between normal age-related findings versus indicators of worrisome disease processes and atypical presentation of disease. Now, Let’s Get Physical!

What do primary care providers need to know about depression and ADHD? Join expert faculty as they review important questions they get asked about these topics!

Sexual problems in women are highly prevalent, often with an adverse impact of quality of life and relationships. Learn the principal causes of female sexual dysfunction and options for effective management in this 60-minute session with an open Q&A period.

This case-based, interactive lecture will cover the current epidemiology of HIV in the United States, and then focus on issues critical for the primary care provider – HIV testing, identification of acute infection, initiating a baseline work-up, and understanding the basics of antiretroviral therapy. HIV prevention will be covered citing both the pre- and post-exposure prophylaxis strategies.

One in five Americans will develop skin cancer by the age of 70. This session will provide an overview of the major types of skin cancers and precancers, as well as provide guidance in distinguishing these from common benign tumors. This session will also equip the primary care provider with information regarding treatment and prevention of both benign and malignant skin tumors.

Coronary artery calcium can be a valuable tool to measure cardiovascular risk and to inform the treatment of hyperlipidemia in appropriately selected individuals. Join Dr. Ty Gluckman as he discusses the history, predictive value, and most effective use of coronary artery calcium.

Individuals with major depressive disorder (MDD) experiencing an incomplete response to initial antidepressant monotherapy can suffer functional impairment and poor clinical outcomes. The interactive, branching activity provides you with an opportunity to assess such a patient and make management decisions over multiple visits in a primary care setting. By the end of this complex case, you will be better equipped to recognize when a patient would benefit from treatment advancement and will understand the patient and pharmacologic factors involved in individualizing treatment escalation, including how and when to employ combination antidepressant therapy or augmentation with a second-generation antipsychotic agent.

This video-based resource activity will feature a dialogue between two expert faculty on the health, psychosocial, and functional burden of MDD on patients who experience an incomplete response to treatment. The discussion will emphasize the importance of prompt recognition of these individuals so that therapy advancement can occur at the earliest opportunity and will provide practical tools to help PCPs make this identification.

In this video-based resource activity, expert faculty will discuss options for advancing antidepressant therapy in patients with an incomplete response to antidepressant monotherapy, including the neurochemical rationale for combining antidepressant therapy. It will also provide an approach for selecting antidepressant therapy in which the drugs’ clinical profiles correspond best to individual patient’s symptoms and other clinical factors.