Prep for board exams and integrate new knowledge into your daily practice with this concise review.

Prep for Boards and Stay Current with this Concise Review

The Pulmonary Medicine Board Review Course will improve your knowledge across the spectrum of pulmonary conditions and diseases and will fully prepare you for the ABIM certification and recertification exams in Pulmonary Disease. Thirty state-of-the-art lectures deliver the most relevant information necessary for passing the boards and for enhancing your ability to diagnose and manage respiratory conditions and diseases encountered in the course of daily practice. It will help you to better:

• Discuss relevant scientific and clinical information covering the field of pulmonary medicine
• Understand pulmonary disease pathophysiology and diagnosis of a broad array of conditions and diseases
• Integrate the latest management strategies for pulmonary diseases into daily practice
• Understand critical care topics including ARDS, surgery and mechanical ventilation
• Pass ABIM board certification and recertification exams in Pulmonary Disease

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:

• Discuss relevant scientific and clinical information to increase basic knowledge and clinical skills in pulmonary medicine
• Have a study aid for the ABIM Initial Certification and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) examinations
• Provide practicing pulmonologist a review and update of disease pathophysiology and diagnosis of a broad array of topics in Pulmonary medicine that can be used in daily practice
• Review most up-to-date management strategies for pulmonary diseases

Intended Audience

Physicians planning to take the ABIM certification and MOC examination in pulmonary medicine.

 

Topics/Speakers

Obstructive Lung Disease

• COPD – Management – Surya Bhatt, MD

• Cystic Fibrosis – Steve Rowe, MD

• Non-CF Bronchiectasis – Marty Solomon, MD

• Asthma – Diagnosis and Management – Jennifer Trevor, MD
• Asthma – Pathogenesis and Phenotypes – Jennifer Trevor, MD

• COPD – Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Disease Course – Mike Wells, MD

Critical Care

• Sepsis and Shock – Amit Gaggar, MD

• Cardiac Issues in Critical Care – Sam McElwee, MD

• Surgical Issues in Critical Care – Neurology, Trauma, OB – David Miller, MD

• ARDS – Pathogenesis and Management – Steve Stigler, MD
• Mechanical Ventilation – Steve Stigler, MD

Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases

• Occupational and Environmental Lung Disease – Veena Antony, MD

• Sarcoidosis – Joseph Barney, MD

• Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis – Joao DeAndrade, MD

• Other Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Diseases – Tracy Luckhardt, MD

Sleep Medicine/Neuromuscular/Skeletal

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Polysomnography – Jennifer DeWolfe, DO
• Sleep Physiology and Sleep Disorders – Jennifer DeWolfe, DO

Infections

• Mycobacterial Disease – Veena Antony, MD

• Fungal Lung Disease – John Baddley, MD

• Lung Infections in Immunocomporomised Hosts – Peter Pappas, MD

• Bacterial Pneumonia and Lung Abcess – Martin Rodriguez, MD

Neoplasms

• Lung Cancer – Management, Interventional Pulmonary – Gerald Belopolsky, MD

• Lung Cancer – Overview and Screening – Mark Dransfield, MD

• Lung Cancer – Diagnostic Techniques and Staging – Wissam Jaber, MD

Pleural Diseases

• Pleural Effusion and Pneumothorax – Diagnosis and Management – Hitesh Batra, MD

Transplantation

• Lung Transplant – Allocation, Complications and Pharmacotherapy – Keith Wille, MD

Vascular

• Vasculitis and Pulmonary Hemorrhage – Angelo Gaffo, MD

• Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Pulmonary Hypertension – Kevin Leon, MD

Basic Science and Physiology

• Pulmonary Function Tests and Exercise Testing – Surya Bhatt, MD

Epidemiology and Statistics

• Literature Review, Basic Statistical Concepts and Clinical Trial Design – Terry Shaneyfelt, MD

 

Date of Original Release: July 31, 2015

File formats: MP4 Videos, PDF syllabus