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The American population is aging - in one century, life expectancy in the U.S. rose from age 47 to 78. In 2050, 20 percent of the U.S. population will be older than 65. With this in mind, we must identify ways to improve the quality of the final days of life. In this episode, we will explore how the PA profession contributes to palliative care, which focuses on symptom management, quality of life, and communication with JAAPA Authors Rebecca Jones and Natalie Mohammad.

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In this podcast, expert faculty discuss strategies to minimize weight bias, stigma, and discrimination within your practice, focusing on communication and actions to take in your clinical setting.

The expert faculty discuss the mechanisms of action, efficacy, and safety data for FDA-approved medications to treat obesity.

Join our hosts Joe and Kim as they interview three influential leaders in the Physician Associate/Assistant (PA) profession: Jim Cawley, Rick Dehn, and Rod Hooker. These guests have made significant contributions to PA education, research, and workforce development. Join us as we discuss the evolution of the profession since its early days in the 1970s and what has led to its success.

No matter what field of medicine a clinician practices in, everyone will see heart failure patients. With the ACC and AHA projecting that the prevalence of heart failure will increase by 46% from 2012 to 2030 resulting in 8 million patients with the disease, heart failure is here to stay. So, what do you do when all guideline-directed medical therapies fail patients? Is there another treatment option for these patients? The answer is yes! Advanced heart failure therapies such as Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVADs) and heart transplantation are giving heart failure patients the chance to begin again, but they rely on providers to get them the help they need in a small window of time. This session will discuss these therapies in detail and help providers identify which patients could benefit from these therapies today, thereby saving their life tomorrow.

This activity will use a case-based approach to cover a variety of topics seen in hospital neurology practice including secondary headache disorders, seizures and status epilepticus, central nervous system infection, and intracerebral hemorrhage.

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.