2025 ATSU-KCOM CME Cruise | Primary Care Update

2025 ATSU-KCOM CME Cruise | Primary Care Update is organized by A.T. Still University (ATSU) Continuing Education and will be held from Jan 19 - 26, 2025 at Royal Caribbean's Wonder of the Seas, Port Canaveral, Florida, United States of America.

Activity Description:
This activity will update physicians on the latest recommendations involving the medical subspecialties important for the primary care physician through a comprehensive activity consisting of lectures, group discussions and Q&A sessions focused on the primary care physicians identified professional practice gaps and our Annual ATSU Needs Assessment Survey.

Learning Objectives:
After this activity, attendees will be able to:

• Review and discuss current diagnostic and therapeutic options for common illnesses and injuries seen in primary care.
• Identify new evidence-based treatment using the most up to date clinical and scientific information which will lead to reduction in modifiable risk factors.
• Employ practice relevant new research to everyday patient encounters.
• Use osteopathic patient care competencies to develop and implement strategies that overcome patient and clinician barriers and improve patient health outcomes.

Core Competencies
CME activities must address one or more of the AOA seven core competencies. The core competencies addressed by this activity are highlighted below:

• Osteopathic Principles and Practice
• Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice
• Osteopathic Patient Care
• Interpersonal and Communication Skills in Osteopathic Medical Practice
• Professionalism in Osteopathic Medical Practice
• Osteopathic Medical Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
• System-Based Osteopathic Medical Practice

Osteopathic Tenets

• The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind, and spirit.
• The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing, and health maintenance.
• Structure and function are reciprocally interrelated.
• Rational treatment is based upon an understanding of the basic principles of body unity, self-regulation, and the interrelationship of structure and function.