33rd Annual Midwinter Family Medicine Update

Start Date Sunday, February 1, 2009
End Date Friday, February 6, 2009
Description Sunday, February 1, Evening Session: •Registration & Reception for participants and families Monday, February 2: •Sudden Hearing Loss: What to Do? When to Refer? •Evidence-Based Review for the HME •Pain Management Alternatives •Neck Mass in Children & Adults •Managing TBI •Thyroid Nodule: Implications, Evaluation & Therapy Tuesday, February 3: •Colon Cancer Screening & Surveillance •Other Approaches to Managing Depression •Which Moles to Biopsy & How •Hypertension Updates •Impact of State Legislative Activities on the Practice of Medicine •Primary Care Perspective of Sleep Apnea Wednesday, February 4: •Restless Leg Syndrome Update •After the DVT or Embolic Event •Sleep in the Elderly •Hyperlipidemia Update •Update on Adolescent Vaccine •Lessons Learned: Case #1 Thursday, February 5: •Lessons Learned: Case #2 •Shingles Update: Vaccine, Diagnosis, & Treatment •Lessons Learned: Case #3 •Erectile Dysfunction Update •Achieving & Maintaining Progress with Goals & Outcomes •Testosterone Replacement in Men Friday, February 6: •Practice Outcome Enhancement •Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Update •Motivational & Collaborative Patient Interviews: Going Beyond Documenting Refusal
Phone 1 734-763-1400
Fax 1 734-615-6129
Website http://cme.med.umich.edu/events/course.asp?no=U022437
Format Conferences, Lecture, Seminar
Location Boyne Highlands Resort
600 Highlands Drive
Harbor Springs, Michigan
49740
Credit Hours 20
Credit Category 1
Price $730.00
Specialties Family Practice/Medicine, Physician's Assistant, Nurse Practitioner
Objectives The Midwinter Family Medicine Update, now celebrating 33 years of education, will be held once again at Boyne Highlands, providing an exciting week of stimulating medical education and winter recreation. The program involves speakers presenting important new information and updates on over 27 different topics, including common issues in men’s health, medical legal area, vaccines, sleep disorders, colon cancer screening and surveillance, neck masses, thyroid nodules, and pain management. All speakers will focus on the evidence that matters to you and your patients. Among the topics to be addressed this year, primary care providers attending this year’s Midwinter Family Medicine Update will learn new diagnostic and therapeutic information in the following clinical areas: •Sudden hearing loss •Evidence-based review for the HME •Pain management alternatives •Neck masses •Brain injuries •Thyroid nodules •Colon cancer screening and surveillance •Depression •Which moles to biopsy and how •Hypertension update •Impact of state legislative activities on the practice of medicine •Sleep apnea •Restless Leg Syndrome update •After the DVT or embolic event •Sleep in the elderly •Hyperlipidemia update •Adolescent vaccines •Medical legal case reviews •Shingles update •Erectile dysfunction •Testosterone replacement in men •Achieving and maintaining progress with goals and outcomes •Benign prostatic hyperplasia update •Practice outcome enhancements •Motivational and collaborative patient interviews