Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Increase use of LARCs.
Recognize continued disparities in end of life care between white and black patients
Identify strategies to address physician depression and suicide
Describe the 2017 USPSTF draft recommendations for PSA-based prostate cancer screening.
Apply recent CDC guidelines for use of opioid pain medications in chronic pain.
Apply recent ACP guidelines for management of both acute and chronic back pain.

Authors:

Alda Maria Gonzaga, MD, MS — Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics Division of General Internal Medicine Program Director, Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Advisory Dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

Scott Herrle, MD, MS, FACP — Assistant Professor of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.

No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.