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Practice Enhancing Points: Tools to put into practice
Elegant Simplicity as productive play
PEP Talks about the "Good Stuff"
Preliminary Topics for Activity

• Dr Youel's TLC Urgency Syndrome: Lowering the Risk. Therapeutic life changes: Tender Loving Care for US
• LDL: Why not <70 for Everybody?
• Abdominal Obesity: The A, B, C, and D's of Steady, Substantial, Sustained Weight Control. It's simpler than you think
• Blood Pressure Management: Why do some do so well?
• Diabetes Mellitus: Is Glargine for Everybody
• Metabolic Screening: What Makes Sense in Primary Care?
• The Seamless Medical Record: Do you see what I see? The Computer-Empowered Medical Practice
• Fun Facts: Cardiology. The RAPID read of the EKG
• Fun Facts: Hematology. Mining for Hidden Gold in the CBC
• Cleaning up our Medication Mess: Polymedication and our risky and costly choices
• What do you know for sure? Do you have a learning plan? Drug and Disease Designators and Specifiers
• The Eye of the Eagle: Dermatology Rediscovered. The Quick Look, Link-and-Lock Doc
• Pharm Phun Phacts: 10 Mega-controlling Facts

Preliminary Objectives for Activity

• List the Causes of 2/3 of the US health care budger that requires only TLC
• List and describe the A-B-C-Ds of steady substantial, sustained weight loss
• Define medically effective exercise and how to achieve it
• Know the evidence for setting an LDL goal of <70 for everybody
• Know the evidence for sub-typing in the management of hyperlipidemia
• Choose which two lipid lowering agents would you not want to be without and provide the evidence-based rationale for your choice
• Define the Metabolic Cluster
• Know the clinical usefulness of this dysmetabolic syndrome
• Formulate a practical plan for using this diagnosis in your practice
• List the A-H alphabet of excuses for eating too much
• Know the evidence-based medical role of prescribed diet pills
• Know the evidence-based medical role of bariatic surgery
• Know the mathematical relationship between radius and flow
• Know the evidence-based algotithm for the A-B-C-D anti-hypertensive
• List the essentials for improved hypertension control in your practice
• Know the ADA definition of pre-diabetes
• Know the ADA algorithm for medication management of DM-2
• Know the evidence for the more frequent use of insulin versus oral anti-diabetics and for glargine insulin over other insulins
• List the criteria for metabolic screening
• Define the indication for abdominal CT as a screening test
• List the pre-screening you do and decide if you wish to change
• List the advantages and disadvantages of the electronic medical record
• Define Youel's lean, clean problem list machine and Youel's agenda-initiated office visit
• List the advantages and disadvantages of formal performance measures
• Know the rationale for Youel's RAPID read of the EKG
• Know what the computer read EKG is most likely to miss, but you get
• List the A-B-C-D's of negative dromotropes and the clinical implications
• List normal numbers for the white blood cell count differential
• List 3 causes of eosinophilia, other than allergies and parasites
• Know the formula for differentiating non-iron deficiency microcytois
• Differentiate poly-medication from poly-pharmacy
• Know the mathematical relationship between the number of medications and the risk of medication interactions
• List the two most important means of limiting poly-medication
• Define Youel's criteria for whether you know a fact or not
• Define drug and disease designators and specifiers
• Formulate a customized life-ling learning plan
• List Youel's 6 S's of safe lesions, dermatological or otherwise
• List Youel's 6 L's of Dermatologic Diagnosis
• list the six major types of malignant melanoma
• List Youel's 10 Mega-controlling facts
• Describe the clinically relevant clinical pathway of Mega-mechanism #1
• Describe the clinical pathway of at least one other mega-mechanism

Accreditation: Continuing Education, Inc. is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Designation: Continuing Education, Inc. designates this educational activity for a maximum of 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing Contact Hours: Continuing Education, Inc., is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

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Conference Sessions generally take place during the days at Sea (depends on program and itinerary) so that conflict with any Ports of Call or evening entertainment is minimized.

(A Convenient Calendar to Check Your Dates)

DATE	PORT OF CALL	ARRIVE	DEPART
Sun Mar 20	Ft. Lauderdale, Florida	-	5:00pm
Mon Mar 21	Nassau, Bahamas	7:00am	1:00pm
Tue Mar 22	At Sea Cruising Lectures 9:00am - 12:00pm, 1:00pm - 5:00pm	-	-
Wed Mar 23	Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas	9:00am	5:00pm
Thu Mar 24	Philipsburg, St. Maarten	7:00am	5:00pm
Fri Mar 25	At Sea Cruising Lectures 1:00pm - 5:00pm	-	-
Sat Mar 26	At Sea Cruising Lectures 8:00am - 12:00pm	-	-
Sun Mar 27	Ft. Lauderdale, Florida	7:00am	-

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