Current Clinical Pediatrics 2012
April 16 – 20, 2012
Omni Hilton Head Oceanfront Resort, Hilton Head, South Carolina
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Target Audience
Pediatricians, family practitioners, general practitioners, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and residents
Educational Needs Addressed
This conference is designed to address practice gaps in the areas of pediatric behavioral and developmental care, critical care, dermatology, hematology, infectious diseases and ophthalmology. The conference is intended to increase knowledge and competence by providing opportunities for learning through lectures, discussion, small group workshops, and interaction with faculty and peers. In addition to some of the specific clinical objectives listed below, the faculty have identified when they will address the Six Core Competencies required for Maintenance of Certification.
Educational Objectives
At the conclusion of this conference, participants will be able to:
• Discuss with parents appropriate restrictions on children’s media use
• Approach common behaviors in young children with up-to-date strategies for management
• Consider the impact of poverty, violence exposure and environmental toxins on childhood outcomes
• Advocate effectively for children with autism in receiving appropriate treatment options
• Determine which patients require follow-up for post-concussive symptoms
• Identify common complaints that can require more emergent careHave
• Have simple strategies for removal of some foreign bodies
• Identify interventions that can be done until more definitive care can be arranged
• Determine which minor facial and dental injuries require immediate referral and which can be managed safely in the office
• Identify which patients require treatment for urinary symptoms or abnormal laboratory results
• Develop a strategy for choosing antibiotics
• Identify which patients require imaging
• Diagnose and treat several common cutaneous infections using current evidence
• Identify and manage several common urgent and emergent dermatologic disorders using current evidence
• Perform several cost-effective and useful office procedures related to dermatology.
• Articulate increased understanding of the motivations for Alternative medicine, and identify some common treatments
• Differentiate iron deficiency from other causes of microcytic anemia and treat it effectively
• Integrate symptoms and lab test results to screen for common bleeding disorders
• Understand what hemoglobinopathies are represented by newborn screening results and which patients require subspecialist management.
• Feel more comfortable providing preventative care for patients with sickle cell anemia and treating basic acute complications
• Distinguish relevant pediatric and adolescent updates to epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment for STDs (HIV, syphilis, HSV, HPV, and trichomonas)
• Review current STD screening guidelines and interpretation of screening results, in the context of population-specific recommendations, cost and confidentiality concerns, and availability of screening assays
• Summarize updated meningococcal, Tdap, and HPV vaccine recommendations
• Discuss pre-travel prophylaxis and anticipatory guidance for pediatric travelers to some common international destinations
• Familiarize parents and providers with high-risk behaviors and environments for ocular injury
• Help parents develop strategies to improve compliance with glasses and patching
• Develop age-appropriate vision testing strategies
• Elucidate harbingers of more serious ocular disease when confronted with a child with a red eye
