Update in Family Medicine and Mental Health from Childhood through Adulthood

Update in Family Medicine and Mental Health from Childhood through Adulthood is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Jun 12 - 19, 2023 at Royal Caribbean's Quantum of the Seas, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.

Program Purpose:
The participants will learn how to treat joint and less common ailments by drawing from the most recent guidelines as well as the experience of the speaker. The learner will have an increased understanding of various concerns that they may or may not choose to adopt in the care that they provide to the patient.

Topics:
• A Brief Look at the History of Medicine: Can the Dead Teach the Living?
       • Discover that the challenges we currently face today are not so new.
       • Identify competent and compassionate approaches to challenging clinical scenarios

• Dermatologic Emergencies and Urgencies
       • Better Identify patients with life-threatening skin disorders

• Diagnostic Dilemmas: What Does This Patient Have? Case Files
       • Diagnose those with protean symptoms or signs, with an emphasis on life-threatening, catastrophic disorders

• "Serenity Now": Caring for Addicts and their Families
       • Recognize opportunities to intervene in helping patients and their families who suffer from addiction

• The Latest UTI Guidelines - What's New?
       • Diagnose and treat those with urinary tract infections

• Office Evaluation of Abdominal Pain
       • Interpret the subtle symptoms and signs of serious abdominal pain

• The Secret in the Care of the Patient - Without Getting "Your Hands Cut Off"
       • Discover how to avoid malpractice by choosing good practices which will be clearly identified using concrete examples

• Healthcare Stories
       • Appreciate the privilege inherent in caring for our patients and how it strengthens feelings of self-worth and joy

• Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
       • Gain a better understanding of the use of TMS and its application in the treatment of depression

• Pharmacogenomics
       • Understand the impact of genetics on drug response and its role in the pharmacologic management of patients
       • Explore specific important pharmacodynamic and pharmacokinetic genetic variations in Psychiatry

• Updates on the treatment of ADHD
       • Describe the History, Etiology, and Pathophysiology of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
       • Describe the diagnosis and components of ADHD
       • Define the important changes in diagnostic criteria for ASD in DSM-V
       • Identify medication with empirical support for the treatment of ADHD
       • Identify nonpharmacologic and alternative/complementary treatments as well as other treatment modalities for ADHD

• Autism: current understandings and treatment
       • Describe the History, Etiology, and Pathophysiology of Autism Spectrum Disorders
       • Define the diagnosis and components of ASD
       • Define the important changes in diagnostic criteria for ASD in DSM-V
       • Identify medication with empirical support for the treatment of ASD
       • Identify nonpharmacologic and alternative/complementary treatments as well as other treatment modalities for ASD