Specialty Updates for the General Pediatrician

Maintaining a current knowledge base in pediatric subspecialties is challenging in this time of rapid expansion of new information. This one day CME event is aimed at presenting general pediatricians and primary care practitioners with significant updates across a broad range of subspecialties within the field of pediatrics. Expert faculty in ophthalmology, surgery, urology, gastroenterology, dermatology, neurology, nutrition and obesity, and otolaryngology will discuss important and clinically relevant updates in each field. This CME activity is designed for office based primary care physicians who wish to expand their clinical subspecialty knowledge base and improve their ability to accurately diagnose, manage, and refer pediatric patients with specialized problems. The program will also provide interactive question and answer sessions following each talk, allowing attendees the opportunity to interact directly with faculty.

At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be better able to:

•Identify the gastrointestinal and extra intestinal manifestations of celiac disease
•Discuss growth related issues of children with celiac disease
•Review celiac disease screening and testing
•Identify changes in nutritional parameters in adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery
•Describe the implications of changes in nutritional parameters for ongoing health maintenance in adolescents post bariatric surgery
•Identify changes in metabolic and cardiovascular risk factors in adolescents undergoing bariatric surgery
•Apply treatment guidelines for concussions in various age groups
•Identify risk factors for post concussive syndrome and posttraumatic headaches
•Explain return to play protocols post concussion
•Apply updated guidelines for management of pediatric acne vulgaris to everyday pediatric practice
•Optimize topical treatment strategies for the management of childhood atopic dermatitis
•Recognize skin findings in pediatric patients that are red flags for additional evaluation or referral
•Discuss current guidelines and available technologies for effective vision screening in children
•Discuss the differential diagnosis of tearing in children and appropriate management and referral guidelines
•Discuss the basic concepts and misconceptions about childhood strabismus
•Diagnose and manage children with acute abdominal pain in the primary care setting
•Discuss the medical rationale for the timing of urgent (but not emergent) surgical treatment of acute appendicitis.
•Define surgical techniques which are “scarless, quick, and less costly”
•Discuss current advances in pediatric ENT, with special attention to ear and sinus infections, tonsil disease, and tongue-tie
•Identify current advances in pediatric urology of interest to the primary care physician, with particular emphasis on commonly encountered pediatric urologic conditions