Projects in Knowledge Continuing Education
About Projects In Knowledge, Inc.
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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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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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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The Rheumatoid Arthritis Landscape: An Update for Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacists
Provided by: ASiM
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disabling autoimmune disease that causes pain, stiffness, swelling, and limitation of motion in multiple joints, as well as inflammation in other organs. An estimated 1.3 million Americans are affected. Traditionally, RA has been treated with synthetic disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) and nonsteroidal an... |
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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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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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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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Current and Emerging Therapies in Chronic Pain
Provided by: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Four key areas in which clinicians have significant knowledge gaps are:
1.The knowledge of pain mechanisms and of the mechanisms of action of therapies
2.Recently approved therapies for chronic pain
3.Recently published or revised chronic pain treatment guidelines
4.Novel pain therapies in late-stage development that may be available soon
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Online Rheumatology Grand Rounds
Provided by: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Description:
Systems Approach with Inflammatory Exudates - A Novel Genus of Anti-Inflammatory & Pro-Resolving Mediators
Target Audience:
Full and part-time faculty, fellows, residents, medical students and research support staff
Objectives:
Determine whch endogenous mediators control the magnitude and duration of an innate response
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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