Earn free CME using online programs from the Academy's 2006 Annual Clinical Focus: Caring for Children and Adolescents. The programs are designed to help family physicians enhance the care they provide their younger patients by increasing FPs' knowledge about such topics as overweight and obesity in children and teens, proper developmental assessment techniques, alcohol and drug abuse, asthma care, appropriate newborn screenings, and youth violence.
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ACF 2006 Caring for Children and Adolescents Lectures Online
By News Staff
1/17/2007
The 10 programs, which have been repurposed from live sessions presented at AAFP's Infant, Child and Adolescent Medicine Course, are available online in a combined audio/slide format; each has been reviewed and is acceptable for between 0.75 and 2 CME credits.
Here's a brief recap of the programs and their learning objectives:
Here's a brief recap of the programs and their learning objectives:
- Anxiety Disorders in Children and Adolescents -- Learn to describe the major features of anxiety disorders and how to differentiate developmentally appropriate worries and fears from a true anxiety disorder, discover the respective roles of cognitive-behavioral therapies and medication in treating anxiety disorders, and list the treatment options with the most empirical evidence.
- Children and Disabilities -- Learn to comprehend the complexities of chronic illnesses in children, including the key challenges family physicians face when treating disabled children and adolescents; build strategies for forming a multifaceted care team; and "grow" a database of resources to assist your patients.
- Violence in Youth -- Learn to recognize behavior associated with violent youth and the effects of gang participation; understand factors that make adolescents more likely to engage in violent behavior, including situational and transferential threats; and develop key violence prevention intervention strategies.
- Eating Disorders -- Learn about symptoms, diagnostic criteria, common complications, treatment options and ongoing management strategies associated with anorexia and bulimia in this overview course.
- Newborn Screening -- Learn about the current state of newborn screening in the United States; understand the family physician's role in educating, guiding and supporting parents through the newborn screening process; and discover ways to assemble a resource guide on key issues parents want to know about.
- Asthma Update -- Learn about 10 key clinical activities for providing high-quality asthma care, including establishing the diagnosis, providing follow-up care using a step-wise approach, knowing when to refer to a specialist and educating patients about self-monitoring and self-management.
- Recognition and Treatment of Drug Abuse - Learn to assess adolescent patients' drug use; screen for and detect symptoms of depression in its earliest stages; understand how adolescent depression and drug use are often comorbid conditions; and describe how family, personal and environmental risk factors can contribute to teens' drug abuse.
- Developmental Assessment -- Learn how to recognize appropriate developmental steps in infants and children, identify developmental delays as early as possible through proper screening protocols, determine which laboratory tests can aid in diagnostic assessment after a delay has been identified, and direct ongoing treatment.
- Update on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder -- Learn how to define and evaluate the severity of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD; initiate medical and behavioral treatment for patients with ADHD; decide when to refer to a specialist; recognize variable outcomes of the disorder; and describe recent advances in ADHD treatment.
- Prevention and Treatment for Overweight in Childhood: A Family-Centered Approach -- Learn about possible causes of overweight in children; understand the health risks and psychological issues faced by children who are overweight; and describe family-centered approaches to treatment for overweight children, including healthy eating strategies and increased physical activity.
