Rapid Deployment: 6/4/2019 - Medical Grand Rounds: Update in General Internal Medicine

Target Audience

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to: 

  • Describe the effects of stigmatizing language on providers attitudes and decisions.
  • Recognize how rarely medications for opioid use disorder are prescribed after overdose.
  • Recognize the effect of excessive oxygenation on mortality for seriously ill patients.
  • Describe the clinical settings in which it is safe to de-escalate MRSA coverage in hospital acquired pneumonia.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
08/07/2019
Course expires: 
08/07/2022
ISER
United States
Sarah Merriam, MD — Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine
VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, University of Pittsburgh
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
 
Gaetan Sgro, MD — Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
No relationships with industry relevant to the content of this educational activity have been disclosed.
 

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals are awarded () continuing education units (CEU) which are equivalent to contact hours.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 1.00 Attendance
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