Virtual CME Program
0.75 CME/CE Credit
Thyroid Essentials for Primary Care: Navigating the Diagnostic Maze
Streamline your approach to thyroid health in primary care. Learn the ins and outs of early detection, accurate testing, and knowing when to refer. Boost your diagnostic confidence and improve patient outcomes with essential tips to refine thyroid care in your practice.
CME/CE Information
0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, 0.75 ABIM MOC or 0.75 AANP, including 0.30 AANP Pharm
Release Date: 12/11/2024
Expiration Date: 2/11/2025
Topics
Faculty
Learning Objectives
- Recognize when to screen for thyroid disorders, when to expand beyond thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)/free T4 (fT4), how to tackle misinformation, and when to order thyroid antibodies
- Review when diagnostic imaging for thyroid disorders is indicated and which imaging study to order
- Describe the steps for evaluating and managing thyroid nodules
- Learn how to initiate and titrate levothyroxine, when to use brand medication, and indications for combination therapy when treating thyroid disorders
- Discuss the optimal TSH targets for post-thyroid cancer management and their role in comanagement
Faculty
Eve D. Bloomgarden, MD
Board Certified Endocrinologist, Thyroid Specialist
Chief Development Officer, Women in Medicine®
Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder IMPACT
Disclosures
The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by faculty, and all have been mitigated by Pri-Med Institute.
Eve Bloomgarden, MD (Faculty): Speaker for Horizon Therapeutics.
Ty Gluckman, MD (Moderator): Consultant for OptumRx.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, editing, and review of the content have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
CME/CE Information
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Accreditation Statement
Pri-Med Institute is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement
Pri-Med Institute designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AANP
Accreditation Statement
Pri-Med Institute is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 040308.
Designation Statement
This activity is approved for 0.75 contact hour of continuing education, which includes 0.30 hours of pharmacology.
MOC Credit Information
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. Pri-Med Institute reports completion information to ACCME on a monthly basis, in the first week of each month. Pri-Med Institute reports completion information to ACCME on a monthly basis, in the first week of each month. Pri-Med Institute reports completion information to ACCME on a monthly basis, in the first week of each month.
Instructions for Obtaining Credit
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