Full Course

Learning Objectives: 

• Define pain and its components
• Compare and contrast pain mechanisms
• Describe the impact of psychosocial factors on pain

Learning Objectives: 

• Describe the biopsychosocial model and stepped care approach for treating chronic pain
• Review pharmacotherapy approaches to treat common neuropathic and nociceptive pain conditions
• Summarize chronic opioids current place in therapy using the most recent clinical practice guidelines
• Construct individualized pain care plans utilizing a multimodal approach

Learning Objectives: 

• Describe how biological, psychological, and social factors contribute to pain perception.
• Learn to apply practical, evidence-based strategies like CBT and mindfulness to empower patients in pain management, reducing reliance on medication.

Learning Objectives: 

• Become familiar with how we got there—the genesis of the opioid crisis
• Understand the scope of the problem
• Become familiar with chronic pain and the emotion concept
• Become familiar with Opioid Use Disorder (Addiction)
• Become familiar with CDC Guidelines, 2016 & 2022
• Become familiar with Tennessee guidelines and legislation for prescribing opioids for pain (TCA)

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify key updates to adult and child vaccine schedules
• Examine safety and efficacy of recently approved vaccines
• Discuss patient-specific factors for prioritization and selection of vaccines

Learning Objectives: 

• Explain the use of the major prognostication indices
• Describe how prognostication can be used for shared decision making

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify the available crisis resources in our community
• Describe how to connect patients with behavioral health treatment and resources

Learning Objectives:

• Identify screening modalities recommended for early detection of colorectal cancer
• Describe the advantages and disadvantages of commonly used colorectal cancer screening tests
• Provide recommendations for high-risk screening or surveillance for patients with personal of family history of colorectal cancer or high0risk polyps

Learning Objectives: 

• Describe exercise considerations for patients with asthma
• Describe heart failure and its effect on an individual's function

Learning Objectives: 

• Develop plans for patients with specific medical interventions for weight loss
• Identify ways to mitigate side effect profiles and integrate incretin hormone therapy for a wider patient population

Learning Objectives:

1. Define functional nutrition

2. Describe body composition

3. Identify nutritional practices including the assessment of the client, client education, protein needs, and client goal setting.

4. Discuss diet types and the risks/benefits of each

5. Identify lifestyle modifications and supplementation recommendations

Learning Objectives: 

• Review the pathophysiology behind COPD
• Discuss the assessment of COPD in patients, including severity and risk
• Apply the revised patient assessment recommendations to patients with COPD

Learning Objectives: 

• Recognize life threatening arrhythmias
• Discriminate common arrhythmias and initiate plan of care

Learning Objectives: 

• List medications which comprise GDMT for HFrEF, HFpEF, HFmrEF, and HFimpEF
• Compare and contrast GDMT recommendations for HFrEF and HFpEF
• DIscuss the place in therapy for SGLT2Is and ARNIs
• Identify monitoring parameters for contraindications to GDMT

Learning Objectives: 

• Review therapeutic advancements in managing patients with asthma
• Describe asthma treatment guidelines to develop safe and effective drug regimens
• Identify barriers to care for patients with asthma

Learning Objectives: 

• Build diagnostic pathways or algorithms to recognize patients' medical conditions, including carpal tunnel syndrome
• Recognize the role of electrodiagnostic studies in diagnosing nerve related injuries or pathology

Learning Objectives: 

• Select the correct glomerular filtration rate estimator for the patient 
• Interpret kidney function as it relates to patient age and physical status
• Know the important risk factors for progression of chronic kidney disease
• Understand the essential steps to mitigate risk factors for progressive chronic kidney disease
• Know the critical points in the trajectory of chronic kidney disease to intervene for patient care

Learning Objectives: 

• Describe the 4Ms of an Age Friendly Health system
• List examples of evidence-based tools for assessing and acting on each M domain
• Identify opportunities to incorporate Age Friendly principles into your clinical care settings

Learning Objectives: 

• Identify potential referrals for music therapy
• Define music therapy

Learning Objectives: 

• Recognize ethics and equity issues of artificial intelligence in healthcare
• Employ principles of ethics and equity when thinking about those issues
• Contrast AI tools and the contexts in which they are developed, implemented, and used with reference to an AI lifecycle

Learning Objectives: 

• Understand the workup of a newly found pulmonary nodule
• Understand the state of the art techniques now available for the workup of pulmonary nodules