Virtual CME Program
1.00 CME/CE Credit
Red Flags in Primary Care - What to Do and When
Every day as a primary care clinician is different, and the specialty allows for a fascinating and robust patient population and varied chief complaints. In actuality, we see a couple dozen complaints commonly, and it remains easy to get lulled into a false sense of security and come to an erroneous diagnosis in common and every-day patient complaints. This presentation will address a handful of common primary care patient complaints, along with guideline-driven treatment, and the red flags that may be easily dismissed, resulting in a catastrophic outcome, focusing on premature closure and anchoring errors.
CME/CE Information
1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, 1.00 ABIM MOC or 1.00 AANP
Release Date: 3/19/2025
Expiration Date: 3/19/2025
Topics
Learning Objectives
- Detail five common patient chief complaints, the likely diagnoses, and guideline-directed treatments
- Understand what aspects of the patient history and physical examination must be documented to establish the most accurate diagnosis and to mitigate future risk
- Evaluate and understand the very real errors of cognitive bias, confirmation bias, and anchoring, along with how these errors in decision-making prevent clinicians from making accurate diagnoses resulting in the sequelae of poor patient outcomes and a potential malpractice suit
Faculty
Lawrence Herman, DMSc, MPA, PA-C, DFAAPA
Adjunct Professor, Doctor of Medical Science Program, University of Lynchburg
President, Palantir Healthcare, LLC
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The following relevant financial relationships have been disclosed by faculty, and all have been mitigated by Pri-Med Institute.
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CME/CE Information
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Pri-Med Institute designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
AANP
Accreditation Statement
Pri-Med Institute is accredited by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners® as an approved provider of nurse practitioner continuing education. Provider number: 040308.
Designation Statement
This activity is approved for X.XX contact hour of continuing education, which includes X.XX hours of pharmacology.
MOC Credit Information
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.00 Medical Knowledge MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
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