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Alarms are sounding. Your patient's vital signs are crashing. Everyone in the room is looking at you, waiting for a plan. When your patient is in shock, you can panic, or you can fall back on a simple, structured plan. This session gives the audience a straightforward plan for diagnosing and managing undifferentiated shock, tailored specifically for clinicians who do not encounter patients in shock on a daily basis.

What in medicine is as enigmatic as sepsis? While the initial term was first used in poems by Homer, its definition, diagnosis, and treatment continue to evolve. Those who have been practicing for at least five years have witnessed at least one major change in this elusive term. Unfortunately, best practices and how PAs are evaluated on these practices is a continuous moving target. To demystify sepsis, this presentation will discuss how clinicians have arrived here, the current understanding, and current best practices. Through a series of patient scenarios, the faculty will dispel recent, yet now debunked diagnosis criteria, and treatments. This presentation will also help PAs stay up to date on key performance measures to ensure continued, high-quality, billable patient care. Come learn about the current state of sepsis, as it will inevitably change again soon!

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare has moved well beyond the initial hype—it is already having a transformational impact on the healthcare landscape, including clinician well-being, operational efficiency, and improved clinical outcomes. This session will focus on the emerging applications of AI in healthcare, offer a framework for evaluating these new technologies, and present examples of how AI is already transforming the work of clinicians. Additionally, this session will demonstrate why PAs are well-positioned to play a crucial role in this AI revolution and how this shift in healthcare applications has created new professional opportunities for PAs to lead the charge.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gut-brain disorder characterized by abdominal pain and disordered defecation. Although it is one of the most commonly identified gastrointestinal disorders worldwide, complete understanding of the disease pathophysiology is still evolving. Because of this, newer treatment options are continuously under development and clinicians require ongoing educational opportunities to remain up to date with best diagnostic, management, and treatment practices. This program aims to increase knowledge and competence in these areas to assist PAs in enhancing overall patient care for patients with IBS.

Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a gut-brain disorder characterized by abdominal pain and disordered defecation. Although it is one of the most commonly identified gastrointestinal disorders worldwide, complete understanding of the disease pathophysiology is still evolving. Because of this, newer treatment options are continuously under development and clinicians require ongoing educational opportunities to remain up to date with best diagnostic, management, and treatment practices. This program aims to increase knowledge and competence in these areas to assist PAs in enhancing overall patient care for patients with IBS.

The Obesity Management in Primary Care Professional Development and Certificate Program is a self-guided continuing professional development (CPD) Certificate Program.

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In this episode we’ll discuss the various types of abortion, its diagnosis, methods of management, and resources available to patients. This course is a collaboration between AAPA and the Association of Physician Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology (APAOG).

Fertility, or the ability of a person to procreate or create an offspring, has been a subject of great importance throughout time for a long time, a woman's worth and value in society was measured by her ability to bear children. Monarchies relied on the ability of the royal line to continue, and societal expectations aside, infertility can be a devastating diagnosis to a person, but until diagnosis, many people don't know what fertility truly means or how it can occur. Today, we'll review the pathophysiology, common symptoms, diagnosis, and available treatment options. This course is a collaboration between AAPA and the Association of Physician Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology (APAOG).

In this episode, we'll be exploring and learn about postmenopausal vaginal bleeding through the lens of a case study. This course is a collaboration between AAPA and the Association of Physician Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology (APAOG).