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As strides in genetics move at breakneck speed, it's easy for busy PAs to miss genetic disorders that may present in a primary care setting, including in an ER or clinic. This course integrates the basics of genetics/genomics, while dealing with complex medical, legal, ethical, and social considerations of caring for patients with genetic disorders that may be first evaluated during a primary care visit.

Prescribing based on a patient’s pharmacogenetic profile offers the opportunity to decrease the risk of adverse effects and drug interactions before the patient ever takes the medication. Learners will review basic concepts in pharmacogenetics, discuss how pharmacogenetic variants impact opioids, and review patient cases.

This activity allows for necessary conversation with a specific focus on Black women PAs and patients. Black women experience increased health disparities (e.g., infant mortality/morbidity, cardiovascular disease, neoplasm, psychological complications) secondary to elevated levels of discrimination stemming from gendered racism; the simultaneous intersection of racism and sexism. This activity introduces Sojourner syndrome and the “weathering” process described as the multilayered intersectional effects of race, gender, age, caste, stress, and social inequities on the lived experience of Black women and subsequent adverse health outcomes. Drawing on both seminal and recent research, the faculty offers conceptual frameworks and suggestions.

This activity explores how language barriers lead to healthcare disparities and covers the issues that result in poor communication with patients. PAs must provide sufficient interpreter services based on federal and state laws. The faculty discusses options for interpreter services and offers options to those who do not have funding for in-house interpretation services. After discussing the importance of the use of interpreter services, the faculty reviews how to effectively work with interpreters giving quick tips that PAs may put into use immediately.

We are at a pivotal moment in the fight for health equity. Social determinants of health are the non-medical factors that greatly influence health outcomes. They are the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces shaping the conditions of daily life. What if there are factors that impact those forces? The faculty explains that political determinants of health are those factors. As healthcare providers, our attention has been focused on addressing health inequities downstream at the individual level (clinical encounter), midstream at the community level (social determinants), but less upstream addressing the structures, systems, and policies (political determinants) that result in health inequities. This activity introduces the three major aspects of the political determinants – voting, government, and policy – to provide PAs with a more impactful lens through which to address health inequities.

This four-part educational podcast series, aims to equip PAs with the knowledge and strategies to address the needs of patients with obesity and other metabolic disorders and ensure they get proper COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment. The content will focus

Colorectal Cancer Screening: The Role of MT-sDNA Testing | Strategies for Rate and Rhythm Control of Atrial Fibrillation in the ED

This interactive activity will introduce Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) and Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) and describe tailored strategies for incorporating research findings into clinical decision-making. Examples of relevant Patie

AAPA Conference on Demand 2023: Top 5 offers 5.0 credits of AAPA Category 1 CME from the world’s largest PA conference that you can access online anytime. The Top 5 features the session Building a Better Healthcare Culture and includes hot topics

This series will cover obesity topics such as the latest treatment options, patient/provider communication and engagement techniques, new best practices in obesity care, and more. The series will include interactive real-world experiences patient scenarios, live webinars, and webinar replays.