Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.
Audio-Digest Internal Medicine is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information on, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:
Gastroenterology
Hematology and medical oncology
Rheumatology
Pulmonary and critical care medicine
Endocrinology
Infectious disease
Nephrology and hypertension
Cardiology
Geriatric medicine
The goals of this program are to improve the management of hepatitis B and C and the in-hospital management of the cirrhotic patient. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:
1: Determine which patients with chronic hepatitis B are candidates for treatment and which may be safely monitored.
2; Advise patients infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) about behaviors for avoiding transmission.
3: Prescribe the current recommended first-line medical therapy for chronic hepatitis B and C virus infections.
4: Treat complications of cirrhosis, including acute variceal hemorrhage and uncomplicated ascites.
5: Utilize the model for end-stage liver disease (MELD) formula to determine whether a patient with cirrhosis is a candidate for liver transplantation.