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Pharmaceutical marketing clearly influences the prescribing decisions made by health professionals. Evidence suggests that this influence increases cost of care, is often underestimated and can supersede providers’ preferred drug choice. Unfortunately, most health professional students indicate that their training regarding interactions with the pharmaceutical industry is inadequate. This interactive module seeks to remedy this problem and fill this void in order to improve prescribing behaviors in physicians and other health care providers.
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The International Journal of Advances in Rheumatology, a CME/CPE/CNE-accredited educational program, systematically identifies, evaluates, and places into clinical context the most important recent studies into the science and medicine of rheumatoid diseases. It provides rapid access for busy specialists to a critical and clinically relevant review of the developments that will have most impact on their day-to-day practice and is designed to provide management options for...
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The purpose of both these talks was to inform and inspire others to include in their work the idea that they might innovate in ways that have value to the marketplace.
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As the United States becomes a more racially and ethnically diverse nation, health care systems and providers need to respond to patients’ varied perspectives, values, and behaviors about health and well-being. Failure to understand and manage social and cultural differences may have significant health consequences for minority groups in particular.
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Roberto Dansie, PhD
Faculty
Psychosocial Trauma Institute
Missouri School of Medicine
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Cardiovascular (CV) disease remains the leading cause of mortality in the United States. Compared with age-matched persons in the general population, kidney transplant recipients are at a greater than 10-fold increased risk of CV mortality. Indeed, CV disease is responsible for approximately 50% of death with function after the first post-transplant year. Maintenance of CV health has emerged as a top priority in the long-term management of renal transplant recipients.
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Diagnosing the learner is a way to identify deficiencies of learner’s knowledge, skills, and/or attitudes. It allows the faculty to better target their teaching strategies to fit the learning needs of their learners. This module reviews several schemata for identifying learning gaps and learning needs, and then outlines specific remediation and teaching techniques that address these varying needs. Attention is paid to all three domains (knowledge, skills, attitudes) although the...
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Rosemarie Conigliaro, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
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Febrile seizures are the most common type of seizure in children. Although febrile seizures are now thought to be a relatively benign syndrome, children who have experienced them are more likely than other children to later develop unprovoked seizures and epilepsy. Even though the risk of unprovoked seizures after febrile seizures is on the order of a few percent, it is several times higher than what is seen in the general population. Furthermore, a history of febrile seizures is present in...
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Shlomo Shinnar, MD, PhD
Professor of Neurology, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology & Population Health
Hyman Climenko...
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Tuberous Sclerosis (TSC) is a disorder affecting 1:6000 individuals of all races, age, and gender. The disease carries significant morbidity involving multiple organ systems in pediatric patients. Because of the complexity and extent of disease involvement, primary care providers and subspecialists for pediatric patients alike need to be familiar with the primary disease manifestations and their management so as to provide the best possible...
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Darcy A. Krueger, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cincinnati Children's Hospital
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Asthma is the most common chronic medical condition in children. According to the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP), Asthma is under diagnosed and inadequately treated in a large proportion of both pediatric and adult patients. In 2008, the NAEPP has released a new set of guidelines for the Evaluation and Management of Asthma. The aim of this program is to familiarize the primary care provider with the new guidelines which emphasize asthma control.
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Jamshed F. Kanga, MD
Chief, Division of Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine
University of Kentucky Medical Center, Professor...
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Exercise and nutrition play a key role in helping persons with spinal cord injury reduce the incidence of secondary complications and to improve activity level, which can impact the person’s overall QoL and community integration.
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David R. Gater Jr, MD, PhD
Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, Virginia
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