This course is part of PrimaryCareNOW: Live on November 19-21, 2024.
Virtual CME Program
1.00 CME/CE Credit
Rheumatology Update for the PCP
It is often difficult for the primary health-care practitioner to securely diagnose an inflammatory arthritis such as rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis from patients with nonspecific generalized aches and pains or low back pain. Since lupus and other connective tissue diseases may also present as an inflammatory arthritis the PCP needs to know what immune studies such as an ANA should be ordered and the pitfalls that come from positive tests. How patients with inflammatory arthritis and connective tissue disease should be treated will be reviewed in broad outline.
CME/CE Information
1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, 1.00 ABIM MOC or 1.00 AANP, including 0.67 AANP Pharm
Release Date: 11/20/2024
Expiration Date: 1/20/2025
Topics
Faculty
Learning Objectives
- Describe how to accurately diagnose rheumatoid arthritis and distinguish it from other forms of inflammatory arthritis such as psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis
- Discuss how to diagnose lupus and associated connective tissue diseases
- Outline broad principles for how to manage inflammatory arthritis and lupus
Faculty
Peng Thim Fan, MD, FACP
Clinical Profoessor of Medicine
Division of Rheumatology
Department of Medicine
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Disclosures
The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by faculty, and all have been mitigated by Pri-Med Institute.
Peng Thim Fan, MD, FACP (Faculty): Speaker for Sanofi Genzyme.
Pamela Kushner, MD, FAAFP (Moderator): Speaker for GlaxoSmithKline and Haleon. Advisory for GlaxoSmithKline. Stockholder for Abbott. Consultant for Haleon.
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 1.00 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 1.00 contact hour of continuing education, which includes 0.67 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 1.00 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.
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