INTERNAL MEDICINE FOR PRIMARY CARE: ADDICTION/GYNECOLOGY/NEUROLOGY/PALLIATIVE

Oahu, HI - Aulani, A Disney Resort & Spa

June 15 - 19, 2025

Target Audience

This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals with updates in primary care medicine

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to:

- Perform a neurological exam

- Utilize history and physical examination to distinguish weakness from non-specific symptoms

- Describe the differential diagnosis of headaches and migraines

- Discuss evidence-based management options for Alzheimer’s disease

- Evaluate weakness and recognize cardinal features of Parkinson's disease as well as other movement disorders

- List details about the Medicare hospice benefit

- Describe the primary care approach to palliative medicine including symptom management

- Recognize the importance of prognosis in decision making for seriously ill patients

- Define and establish goals of care with patients and their families

- Discuss pain management options with both nonopioid and opioid medications

- Describe the neurobiology of addiction

- Discuss options for patients with chronic pain addictions

- Identify therapies, including nonpharmacological pain treatment strategies, that can reduce the dose of opioids to control pain

- Develop a treatment plan for Alcohol Use Disorder

- Apply evidence-based treatment strategies to chronic brain disorders affecting behavioral addictions

- Assess and manage abnormal uterine bleeding

- Discuss menopausal transition and the risks/benefits of treatment options

- Describe the management of HPV infection and abnormal pap smear results

- Identify evidence-based tools to determine best practices in incorporating all necessary elements in the annual women's health visit

- Discuss modern methods of fertility, natural family planning and contraception