The course will provide a series of multiple-choice question based cases in common and life-threatening endocrine system related clinical entities typically encountered in the Urgent Care or Emergency Department environment. The cases will feature multimedia content to engage the participant. Faculty for the course will primarily be drawn from Harvard Medical School (HMS) associated hospitals. The core faculty will be supplemented by a small number of selected external faculty who are nationally and internationally recognized in the field of contribution.

Emergency Medicine physicians as well as primary care physicians (e.g., Internists, Family Practice physicians, and Pediatricians) who practice Emergency Medicine are the target audience for the course. The participants will have an opportunity to review and advance their knowledge of current practice patterns and recent advances in clinical emergency medicine by taking the course. They will be required to complete all content associated with the course (their progress is electronically tracked). In addition, all participants will be required to correctly answer all associated multiple-choice questions during the course. A standardized level of care equivalent to a typical community level hospital in the United States of America will be employed.

NUMBER OF CREDIT HOURS: The Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

COST: $40.00
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OVERALL LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Clinical update in common and life-threatening clinical conditions encountered in the Emergency Department environment.
2. Case-based clinical problem solving (a multiple choice question based format will be used for the cases).

CLINICAL LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Recognize the presentation of the following clinical conditions in the Emergency Department environment: hyperthyroidism, diabetic ketoacidosis, adrenal insufficiency, and hypothyroidism.
2. Differentiate between presentations of endocrine related conditions and non-endocrine related mimics.
3. Describe their treatment and management of the aforementioned clinical conditions.
4. Appreciate the pathophysiology of the common endocrine emergencies.

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GARY SETNIK, MD Course Director

Dr. Gary Setnik received his M.D. from Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1973, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He is Chair of Emergency Medicine at Mount Auburn Hospital, Cambridge, MA, and on the Executive Committee, Division of Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where he has been on staff since 1977. Currently, Dr. Setnik serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He serves as Medical Director of the South Middlesex Emergency Medical Services Consortium, and is an Examiner for the American Board of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Setnik has received multiple teaching awards from Mt. Auburn Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He is a Senior Fellow of the American Board of Emergency Medicine and the American College of Emergency Physicians, and a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Medical School's F. W. Peabody Society. He was also appointed Scholar at the Academy, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Setnik's articles have been included in EMedicine.com, the New England Journal of Medicine, Forum, Academic Medicine, and in the text Emergency Medicine. DISCLOSURE:

TODD THOMSEN, MD Course Contributor

Todd W. Thomsen, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and trained in Emergency Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. He currently is a staff emergency physician at Mount Auburn Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts. DISCLOSURE:

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HARVEY P. KATZ, MD Reviewer

Harvey P. Katz, M.D., is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care. Dr. Katz is the Director of the Primary Care Clerkship at the Harvard Medical School, and co-director of the HMS Primary Care Division. Dr. Katz is a pediatrician with a subspecialty in pediatric endocrinology, with residency training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and endocrine fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Katz has a long-standing interest in teaching and patient-clinician communication. He is author of Telephone Medicine: Triage and Training for Primary Care (FA Davis, 2001) and co-author of the online continuing education course, The Role of the Telephone in Clinical Medicine: Reducing Liability and Improving Care (www.rmfce.com). Dr. Katz is also deputy director of Pri-Med, the Harvard course in primary care which has enrolled over 150,000 attendees since its inception in Boston in 1985. DISCLOSURE:

JOHANNA F. PERLMUTTER, MD Reviewer

Bio and Photo Coming Soon. DISCLOSURE:

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NUMBER OF CREDITS: 2 

Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Harvard Medical School designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Upon completion of the course you will get a certificate via e-mail within 2 weeks.

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