Program Description: 

Presentation of new data and publications in weekly meetings allows for sharing and discussion of information.
Discussion of recent literature and multidisciplinary discussion helps improve care and provider confidence.
Sharing of state of the art practice guidelines helps decrease practice variance and improvement adherence to guidelines.

Target audience: 

Physicians

Learning objectives: 
Participants who engage in this educational intervention will be able to:
  • Identitfy patients with low medication adherence address barriers to care, and provide safe and effective care in the acute setting, while addressing barriers to ambulatory care to avoid frequent readmission
  • Provide treatment and management of pediatric obesity.
  • Identify potential therapeutic options, dietary support, physical therapy, medications, and screening guidelines.
  • Determine management of patients at risk for endocrine abnormalities based on newborn screening or genetic testing when the disease may not yet be manifest or the results are prone to being false positives as screening tests.
Faculty & credentials: 
Faculty & credentials: 
Activity Director(s):
Peter Wolfgram
 
Planning Committee Members:
Sam Engel 
Christine Bengtson
 

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Contact

Name: 
Sam Engle
Series date: 
01/01/2027 - 12:00am CST to 12/31/2027 - 11:59pm CST

ACCME Accreditation Statement:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The Medical College of Wisconsin and The Society for Pediatric Urgent Care. The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Hours of Participation for Allied Health Care Professionals:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this activity for up to 1.00 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals.

Nurse Practitioner:
The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. is approved as a provider of nurse practitioner continuing education by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners: AANP Provider Number 150930. This program has been approved for up to 1.0 contact hours of continuing education (which includes 0.5 hours of pharmacology). Nurse Practitioners should claim only those hours actually spent participating in the CME activity.

MOC Part II:
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity and individual assessment of and feedback to the learner, enables the learner to earn up to 1 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.

Participation shared with ABP through PARS:

Individual participants’ information will be shared with ABP through the ACCME Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS).

 

Group description: 
Pediatrics

Sessions

There are no sessions in this series.