Activity Details - 2026 Margaritaville Kansas City

ACTIVITY DESCRIPTION

This intensive course will provide you with comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based therapeutic concepts that you will be able to implement into your daily practice. This activity is designed to improve competence in the diagnosis and treatment of primary care issues in the physician office setting. It will provide practitioners with evidence-based methods and strategies to assist in providing better management and treatment options for patients.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

After this activity, attendees will be able to:

Assess and provide patients with an accurate diagnosis and optimal care for a broad range of diseases and conditions seen in primary care.
Discuss and utilize current guidelines in the diagnosis and management of commonly encountered therapeutic issues.
Formulate comprehensive evidence-based interventions and treatment strategies that will lead to the reduction of modifiable risk factors and improve long-term outcomes.
Incorporate Osteopathic principles and practice into patient care.

CORE COMPETENCIES

CME activities must address one or more of the AOA seven core competencies. The core competencies addressed by this activity are highlighted below:

Osteopathic Principles and Practice
Medical Knowledge and Its Application into Osteopathic Medical Practice
Osteopathic Patient Care
Interpersonal and Communication Skills in Osteopathic Medical Practice
Professionalism in Osteopathic Medical Practice
Osteopathic Medical Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
System-Based Osteopathic Medical Practice

OSTEOPATHIC TENETS

The body is a unit; the person is a unit of body, mind, and spirit.
The body is capable of self-regulation, self-healing, and health maintenance.
Structure and function are reciprocally interrelated.
Rational treatment is based upon an understanding of the basic principles of body unity, self-regulation, and the interrelationship of structure and function.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience includes general practitioners, family medicine physicians, internal medicine physicians and other primary healthcare providers that are interested in refreshing their knowledge and improving their competence on commonly seen conditions.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE GAP

A significant gap exists between physician practice, science and clinical practice guidelines. Evidence has shown that PCPs often lack the up-to-date skills, the time to keep up-to-date and the ability and strategies to address patients seen with chronic conditions within their practice. People are increasingly living for longer with multimorbidity. With 47% presenting with multiple disease states, conditions can be difficult to diagnose, treat and the practitioner is faced with patients who are non-compliant. Strategies and updated guidelines presented in this CME/CE activity will provide new interventions and treatment options to help physicians cope with difficult to manage cases.

EDUCATIONAL NEED

Primary Care providers conduct most of the evidence-based disease prevention and screening within the current healthcare system. There remains a gap between the recommended preventive services and actual practice as well as patient adherence to prescribed treatment. Currently, most chronic illness care takes place in primary care practices which provides some disadvantages and serious limitations. This trend puts greater demands on the primary care professional address the frontline needs of these patients who present with multiple chronic conditions. Additionally, people are increasingly living for longer with multimorbidity.

Of the 133 million patients with chronic diseases, 47% have more than one diagnosis. On average, PCP’s manage 3.05 problems per visit and the number of problems grows to 3.88 for people over the age of 65. A PCP handles multiple diseases and complications within a single office visit.

This CME activity will provide an update about standards of care in order to reflect the most current evidence-based knowledge and guidelines to improve competence.

DESIRED OUTCOMES

This activity is designed to provide interactive educational activities that discuss complicated case scenarios that have been shown to improve participant application of evidence-based medicine for patients with multiple chronic comorbidities. Providing a format for adult learning that includes lectures, case-based studies, interactive question and answer sessions, collaborative sharing of patient care issues, and networking with other healthcare professionals has shown to improve participant knowledge and competency.

ACCREDITATION STATEMENT

A.T. Still University (ATSU) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

ATSU designates this activity for a maximum of 16 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.