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This educational series is specifically designed for the surgical healthcare team, focusing on optimizing opioid prescribing practices and enhancing pain management strategies within the surgical setting. Our goal is to empower the surgical team with the knowledge and tools necessary to navigate the challenges of pain management, while minimizing the risks associated with opioid use.

This series of videos is aimed at helping you engage in successful pain management telehealth visits with your patients. Clinicians may have had little to no training on the communication and clinical skills needed for telehealth patient encounters. Most have never learned how to “see” a patient on video during medical training. Our goal for this education is to help you improve your pain management telehealth visits. We’re going to cover some telehealth tips that will help make you successful and keep your patient engaged.

Psychiatric illness and treatment can be a barrier to the successful management of the disease of obesity. This activity is designed to equip PAs with essential knowledge and practical strategies for caring for patients who have both obesity and psychiatric illness. It will delve into the associations between these conditions, explore eating disorders commonly observed alongside obesity, and focus on mitigating weight gain resulting from psychiatric medications. PAs will gain valuable insights and tools to better manage these complex patients through a case-based presentation.

Recognizing burnout and effectively integrating well-being between work and life outside of the healthcare environment requires attention to individual, local, and systemic factors. This activity explores evidence-based practices that PAs can utilize to advance their own wellness at work, incorporating the speaker’s experience as executive sponsor of APP wellness at a large academic medical center. This activity explores data from validated surveys on burnout, professional fulfillment, and well-being for healthcare providers. It also explores how PAs can take action throughout their career to invest in their own well-being and professional fulfillment; to contribute to a local culture of wellness; and to advocate for systemic change at the practice or institutional level.

Comprehensive obesity management consists of four pillars: nutrition, physical activity, behavioral therapy, and medication. This activity explores the nutrition pillar of obesity treatment in adults and uses a case-based approach to give PAs practical tools to create individualized nutrition treatment plans for patients.

Diabetes is a heterogeneous condition with various presentations and progression to its complications. Recent advances in the understanding of genetics have revealed limitations of the current classification of diabetes. Understanding the distinct differences in the types and presentations of more sophisticated classifications of diabetes will guide the selection of proper medications for both glycemic control and the prevention of complications.

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Studies show implicit bias among providers contributes to health disparities by negatively influencing clinical decision-making, provider-patient interactions, and patients' adherence to treatment plans. Consequently, patient-provider racial, ethnic, and language concordance is associated with improved patient satisfaction and health outcomes. As such, addressing the PA workforce diversity gap is essential to achieving health equity. Clinicians and academic educators will lead an open discussion on the intersection of implicit bias among healthcare providers, the PA workforce diversity gap, and health equity. This course engages attendees in case scenarios that consider patient and provider diversity in PA practice and underscore the need for practices and training that foster diversity, equity, and inclusion in PA education. Real-life case discussions will be used to present a balanced view of bias in the profession and suggest actionable tools for personal and systemic improvement.

While we have made great strides in longevity through public health measures and clinical interventions, the U.S. life expectancy is far lower than that of countries of comparable wealth and is dropping. There are data indications that a large proportion of this is related to wealth disparities in the U.S., as well as the significant influence of racial discrimination, which impacts the stability of DNA through epigenetics. For PAs to help mitigate health disparities, this session will connect the etiology of disease with social determinants of health and epigenetics and provide participants with tools to counteract the effects of discrimination on the patients we serve.

The use of race to explain healthcare differences persists in modern medicine, even though there is no biological basis for race. In 2001, The Human Genome Project confirmed that the long-standing belief in the biological differences of races was false and proved that race is a social construct. Nonetheless, we continue to use race in clinical guidelines and algorithms in medicine, creating significant healthcare disparities. Only recently has the medical community begun to acknowledge the erroneous use of race-based medicine, and several organizations have recommended removing race from calculators and algorithms. However, race as a biological trait persists in some clinical calculators affecting the diagnosis and treatment of marginalized communities, especially Black people.