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ForwardDifficult-to-Control Hypertension
The primary care provider frequently faces patients with signs or symptoms that may indicate cardiovascular pathology. The goal of this course is to provide an update and overview on younger patients presenting with chest pain in primary care, and to provide the primary care physician with a sound framework with which to approach these patients presenting with cardiovascular symptoms.
Target Audience
Primary Care Physicians, Physician Assistants and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses (General).
Learning Objectives
- Identify the prevalence and impact of uncontrolled hypertension.
- Recognize and perform the correct initial diagnostic workup for patients presenting with uncontrolled hypertension.
- Implement strategies to manage difficult-to-control hypertension in the primary care setting and recognize when a referral to a subspecialty service is indicated.
Ian Del Conde Pozzi , M.D., FACC
Director of Vascular Medicine
Associate Director of Cardiology
Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute
Baptist Health South Florida
Ian Del Conde Pozzi , M.D., conference director and speaker of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationship with ineligible companies* to disclose, and he will not include off-label or unapproved product usage in his presentation or discussion.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*.
*Ineligible companies - Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
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Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
American Board of Internal Medicine Maintenance of Certification
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 0.75 Medical Knowledge MOC points 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.
Your participation information will be shared with the ACCME, which will in turn report your points to ABIM. Successful completion of a course examination is required to earn ABIM MOC points.
NOTE: Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points will be automatically reported to the ABIM. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.
Through an agreement between the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, medical practitioners participating in the Royal College MOC Program may record completion of accredited activities registered under the ACCME’s “CME in Support of MOC” program in Section 3 of the Royal College’s MOC Program.
Available Credit
- 0.75 ABIM MOC II
- 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 0.75 General certificate of attendance
- 0.75 Nurse Practitioners
NOTE: Maintenance of Certification (MOC) points will be automatically reported to the ABIM. Submissions are recorded in approximately 48 hours. You will receive an email when your credits have been processed.
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