Physician Counseling to Enhance Adherence to Colorectal Cancer Screening Guidelines
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Course Objectives
checkmark How to combine oral medications rationally to bring down HbA1c.
checkmark When and how to start patients on insulin or other injectable medications.
checkmark Which injectable to use. How to determine dosing, monitoring, and adjustment of injectable medications, including prandial dosing of ultra short acting insulin.
checkmark What premixed formulations are most useful.
checkmark How to adjust oral medications when starting injectables.
checkmark Patient profile appropriate for inhaled insulin.

You will also:
checkmark Have the option to participate in an additional activity for additional CME credit.
checkmark Apply the principles you learn in this module to an online case.
checkmark With support from course faculty, implement insulin or other injectable therapy on at least 3 of your diabetic patients who are not at goal despite maximal oral therapy.
 

stepping up to insulin course - CME Overview
Boston University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of:
Additional Available CME
TOTAL CME Credit Hours You Could Earn
Risk Management
Card Study Activity
10 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
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Maximum of 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Enhance Your Educational Experience

Follow your patients with a "card study":
With the guidance of the course director, you will identify 4-6 patients meeting the criteria for intervention; specific patient information will be collected on the cards; cards will be stored within your office; at three months post-intervention, updated patient information will be reviewed, and reported. Additional CME credits provided.

This project was made possible through a grant from the Physicians' Foundation for Health Systems Excellence and is supported in part by unrestricted educational grants from Pfizer and GlaxoSmithKline. Copyright 2007-2010 Department of Family Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine.