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The purpose of our healthcare education program is to:
- Increase the clinical skills and knowledge base of clinicians in practice in the US and abroad
- Enhance clinicians' capacity to treat disease and promote health among their patients and in their communities
- Provide a forum in which clinicians may engage colleagues from diverse medical communities in the US and abroad through collaborative projects
- Foster interaction among clinical professionals from different disciplines to forge solutions to shared challenges
- Offer clinicians effective ways to address the demand for quality and accountability
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rheumatology continuing education, internal medicine, autoimmune disease, CME, immunology, clinical research, gene therapy, medical treatment, rheumatism, systemic lupus erythematosus
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What is Rheumatology?
Rheumatology is a sub-specialty in internal medicine and pediatrics, devoted to diagnosis and therapy of conditions and diseases affecting joints, muscles, and bones. Clinicians who specialize in rheumatology are called rheumatologists. Rheumatologists deal mainly with clinical problems involving joints, soft tissues, certain autoimmune diseases, vasculitis, and heritable connective tissue disorders. Essentially, they are medically treated diseases that affect the musculoskeletal system. They include many autoimmune diseases, as these conditions often cause rheumatic issues.
Rheumatology is a rapidly evolving medical specialty, with advancements owing largely to new scientific discoveries related to immunology of these disorders. Because characteristics of some rheumatological disorders are often best explained by immunology, pathogenesis of many major rheumatological disorders are now described in terms of the autoimmune system, viz., as an autoimmune disease. Correspondingly, most new treatment modalities are also based on clinical research in immunology and the resulting improved understanding of genetic basis of rheumatological disorders. Future treatment may include gene therapy, as well. At present Evidence-based medical treatment of rheumatological disorders has helped patients with rheumatism lead a near normal life.
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American College of Rheumatology
The American College of Rheumatology's mission is advancing rheumatology. The organization is for physicians, health professionals, and scientists that meets the mission through programs of education, research, advocacy and practice support. |
Rheumatology Continuing Education on CESearchEngine
Find Rheumatology related continuing education activities on CESearchEngine.com. Research the leading providers on diabetic CE,CME,CPE,CNE. Thousands of Activities. Unlimited Potential. |
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Genetics: Rheumatoid Arthritis
Provided by: Harvard Medical School
Acknowledgement: This course is supported by educational grants from Celera and the Applera Charitable Foundation.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is the most common inflammatory arthritis, affecting up to 1% of the adult population. In the U.S. alone, it is estimated that 2.5 million people suffer from the disease, with a societal monetary cost measu... |
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Fibromyalgia in Family Medicine: Challenges in Pain Management
Provided by: myCME.com
Managing the pain component of fibromyalgia is challenging and frustrating for the family physician for many reasons.1 In particular, fibromyalgia pain is often refractory to standard clinical interventions, and physicians need to deal with misconceptions surrounding the disease.2 This activity aims to overcome these practice barriers by putting th... |
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Optimizing Disease Control to Manage RA-Associated Pain in Adults
Provided by: U.S. Pharmacist
After completing this activity, the participant should be able to:
1.Explain the pathophysiology of RA.*
2.Discuss nonbiologic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and biologic DMARD therapies.
3.Identify the potential adverse effects of pharmacologic therapies used for treating pain associated with RA.
4.Evaluate nonpharmacolog... |
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Osteoporosis: Diagnosis and Treatment
Provided by: NetCE
Osteoporosis has increasingly become a major health problem. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has estimated that 10 million Americans have osteoporosis and 34 million have low bone mass, or osteopenia, which places them at risk for osteoporosis. Approximately half of women and 25% of men 50 years of age and older will have an osteoporosis-re... |
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Gout: Why, Who, and When to Treat
Provided by: Primary Issues
Program Overview
Gout is not a headline-grabbing disease. People tend to think of it as something that only happens to hard-drinking portly old men in Dickens novels. They may be surprised to learn that the prevalence of gout is on the rise among Americans – particularly postmenopausal women – and that the increase is expected to continue stea... |
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Osteoarthritis II
Provided by: CMElectures
Warren A. Katz, MD, is clinical professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Director of Rheumatology for Clinical Care Associates of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. In part 1 of this lecture, Dr Katz focused on the epidemiology and pathophysiology of osteoarthritis. Here, he discusses management, especially of pain...... |
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Pain Assessment & Management in the Older Adult
Provided by: Corexcel
After reading Pain Assessment & Management in the Older Adult the participant will be able to:
1. Define pain.
2. Describe how pain impacts the aging adult.
3. State common misconceptions and facts about pain.
4. Explain the physiology of pain.
5. Identify the four types of pain.
6. Describe pain behaviors.
7. Explain ... |
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Fibromyalgia: A Truly Mysterious Disease
Provided by: National Center of Continuing Education
Although the term "fibromyalgia" has appeared in literature for 90 years, the disease is often unrecognized by clinicians. It is a devastating disease, more common than rheumatoid arthritis, yet its cause remains a mystery. There is no cure for fibromyalgia; however, nurses can learn how to enhance their patients' quality of life by helping them co... |
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Arthritis: Basic and Advanced Imaging
Provided by: American Roentgen Ray Society
ARRS Web lecture series brings presentations by the best educators in the field to your desktop, available for viewing at home or office and on your schedule. This Web Lecture includes three lectures with an estimated time to complete the activity of 1.5 hours.
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Is it Possible to Significantly Limit or Halt the Damage from Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)? — The Benefits of Anti-TNF Therapy in Managed Care
Provided by: Impact Education, LLC
TARGET AUDIENCE
This activity has been designed to meet the educational needs of managed care pharmacists, pharmacy directors, medical directors, quality directors, policy executives, managed care affiliated physicians, employer and government policy administrators, and other managed care administrators.
STATEMENT OF NEED
The advent of the ant... |
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Case Study 3: A 75-year-old Woman with High Risk for Glucocorticoid-Induced Osteoporosis
Provided by: myCME.com
Treatment with the glucocorticoid (GC) prednisone is associated with osteoporosis and other complications. For postmenopausal women with osteoporosis, the risk for fracture is compounded by GC use and complicates management. This third, and last, case in the series illustrates treatment options for the patient at high risk for fracture during GC th... |
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Embracing the Multidisciplinary Approach for the Management of Postmenopausal Osteoporosis
Provided by: The CE Solution, Inc.
The goal of this lesson is to Identify barriers to the diagnosis of postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO). List attributes of patients who should be treated for PMO, according to NOF guidelines. Describe nonpharmocologic strategies to prevent PMO. Distinguish among single-agent and combination therapy regimens for PMO.... |
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Evidence-Based Clinician Education for Diagnosing and Treating Fibromyalgia (a Performance Improvement Program)
Provided by: Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP)
Your patients are counting on you as their frontline provider to pick up conditions like fibromyalgia that can go undiagnosed for years and have a severe impact on quality of life. Participate in ARHP’s new performance improvement (PI) program to identify and implement improvements in your practice that will hasten treatment for patients with fib... |
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Rheumatoid Arthritis
Provided by: NetCE
Standard therapies can relieve symptoms in some patients and provide partial improvement in others. However, some patients may have more refractory disease whereby significant symptoms persist despite treatment. Thus, knowledge of emerging therapies can be helpful to patient outcomes. Treating rheumatoid arthritis, whether by standard therapy or em... |
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Chapter 1 – Achieving and Measuring Remission and Minimal Disease in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Provided by: Projects In Knowledge, Inc.
Learning Objectives
• Assess the pathophysiology of rheumatoid arthritis and implement diagnostic methodologies to ensure early diagnosis.
• Measure disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis in order to facilitate achievement of tight disease control and remission, in accordance with ACR recommendations.... |
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Osteoarthritis as a Chronic Disease: Maximizing Management in Primary Care
Provided by: Primary Issues
Learning Objectives
After participating in this educational activity, participants should be able to
* Use an understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms of osteoarthritis of the knee to tailor therapy for disease modification and pain management
* Customize a multimodal treatment plan to maximize mobility based on stage of di... |
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Rheumatology and Geriatrics
Provided by: Temple University School of Medicine
Educational Objectives:
At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to:
* Improve the diagnosis and treatment of common family practice problems
* Apply traditional modes of diagnosis and management more effectively
* Apply information to commonly asked questions in office practice
* Increase proficiency an... |
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Rheumatoid Arthritis -When to Treat and Refer
Provided by: CMElectures
Warren A. Katz. MD, is director of rheumatology for Clinical Care Associates of the University of Pennsylvania Health System ... and is the author of "Diagnosis and management of rheumatic diseases and pain management in rheumatologic disorders: A guide for clinicians." Here, he calls for a heightened awareness of the frequency of rheumatoid arthri... |
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Living Medical eTextbook -- Rheumatology
Provided by: Projects In Knowledge, Inc.
Early diagnosis, prompt intervention, and maintenance of tight disease control are now known to be key in preventing or slowing progression of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Many patients do not achieve or sustain remission with older disease-modifying agents alone. Biologic therapies for RA have helped many patients to achieve remission or low disease... |
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