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Information Mastery Practicum: How to Select and Use the Best Hunting and Foraging Tools

What's Hype? What's Right? Assessing New Information from Pharm Reps to the Latest Journals

Depression Assessment/Treatment Strategies in Primary Care

Pharmacy Preceptor Training and Orientation

P2 Pharmacy Preceptor Training

Dermatology Courses
    Diagnostic Dilemmas
    Dermatologic Therapy: How to Add to Your Treatment Palette
    Infectious Disease and Skin: Clinical Pathologic Correlation
    Eyes and Skin Disease

Preceptor Training: Enhancing Your Teaching Skills in the Clinical Setting

Information Mastery Practicum: How to Select and Use the Best Hunting and Foraging Tools
Instructors: David C. Slawson, M.D.
Professor and Director, Center for Information Mastery
Department of Family Medicine
University of Virginia Health System
Allen F. Shaughnessy, Pharm.D.
Director of Curriculum Development
Tufts University Family Medicine Residency
Tufts University School of Medicine
Acknowledgement of Grantor: These materials were made possible by a grant from the state Attorney General Consumer and Prescriber Education Grant Program which is funded by the multi-state settlement of consumer fraud claims regarding the marketing of the prescription drug Neurontin.
Course Objectives: After completing this activity, participants will be able to:

• describe key concepts of Information Mastery
• identify two or more reasons why all clinicians must use coordinated, specialty-specific hunting and foraging tools to stay up-to-date with clinical medicine
• demonstrate and teach how to use hunting and foraging tools for best care information

  
  Credit: Physicians
  Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 2.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.
  Pharmacists
  The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  This activity has been assigned ACPE Universal Program Number 479-000-08-015-H04-P and will award 2.5 contact hours (0.25 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education.

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Depression Assessment/Treatment Strategies in Primary Care
Instructor: S. Marc Silling, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Behavioral Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Acknowledgement of Grantor: Depression Assessment/Treatment Strategies in Primary Care was produced with financial assistance from the Medical Education Network Teaching Ohio's Region III (MENTOR), funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Course Objectives: At the end of this Web-based course, participants will be able to:

• More frequently diagnose depression as a secondary cause of patient office visits;
• Distinguish different mood disorder types;
• Effectively use depression assessment tools in the office setting; and
• Identify treatment options for depression including medications and referral to specialists when feasible.

Intended Audience: This activity is intended for physicians, nurses and other health professionals who have regular access to patients, all of whom must be considered as at-risk for a depressive disorder.
Credit: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician’s Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.
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P2 Pharmacy Preceptor Training
Instructors
David D Allen, RPh, PhD, FASHP
Dean of Pharmacy
College of Pharmacy
dallen@neoucom.edu

Lou Barone, Pharm D, RPh
Assistant Professor
Pharmacy Practice
lbarone@neoucom.edu

Scott Wisneski, Pharm D, RPh
Director, Experiential Education
Adjunct Assistant Professor
swisneski@neoucom.edu

Course Objectives: Participants will:

• Review the issues and opportunities identified in the first year of the P1 Experiential site visits;
• List the roles and responsibilities of preceptors;
• List the objectives of the PPCE P2 experiential site visits and consider strategies for accomplishing these objectives at your site;
• Evaluate and use tools to assess the learners’ performance and become aware of the components of preceptor evaluation by the learners.

Outcomes: Each preceptor site will have its own plan for meeting the expectations as outlined for the NEOUCOP Pharmacy Patient Care Experience.  The NEOUCOP Preceptor Training will provide preceptors the opportunity to understand NEOUCOP, its students and the preceptor responsibilities. Learner feedback in the form of an evaluation questionnaire will measure whether learner understanding and expectations have been met.
Intended Audience: This activity is intended for Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Pharmacy Regional Preceptors.
Credit: This activity has been assigned ACPE # 479-000-08-024-H04-P and will award 1.0 contact hours (0.10 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education.

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Dermatology Courses

Diagnostic Dilemmas

Faculty Instructor:
Stephen E. Helms, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine
Northeastern Ohio Universities
Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy;
Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital
Warren OH
Target Audience: Audience may include a national audience of Dermatologists, Primary Care Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, Physicians Assistants, and healthcare professionals interested in Dermatology.
Credit Information: Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
This activity has been assigned ACPE # 479-000-08-014-H04P and will award 1.0 contact hours (0.10 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education.
Learning Objectives: To identify cutaneous clues (signs and symptoms) which permit development of an ordered differential diagnosis to allow choice of specific, effective treatments.

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Dermatologic Therapy: How to Add to Your Treatment Palette

Faculty Instructor:
Stephen E. Helms, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine
Northeastern Ohio Universities
Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy;
Forum Health Trumbull Memorial Hospital
Warren OH
Target Audience: Audience may include a national audience of Dermatologists, Primary Care Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, Physicians Assistants, and healthcare professionals interested in Dermatology.
Credit Information: Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

This activity has been assigned ACPE # 479-000-08-012-H04P and will award 1.0 contact hours (0.10 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education.
Learning Objectives: 1. Discuss rational topical drug therapy.
2. Recommend, counsel, and monitor patient use of non-prescription drugs, cleansers, moisturizers, etc.
3. Recognize and avoid side effects of certain topical therapeutic medications.

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Infectious Disease and Skin: Clinical Pathologic Correlation

Eyes and Skin Disease

Target Audience: Audience may include a national audience of Dermatologists, Primary Care Physicians, Pharmacists, Nurses, Physicians Assistants, and healthcare professionals interested in Dermatology.
Credit Information: Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

This activity has been assigned ACPE # 479-000-08-013-H04P and will award 1.50 contact hours (0.150 CEUs) of continuing pharmacy education.
Learning Objectives: 1. Apply knowledge about the skin to eyelid conditions to improve diagnostic skills
2. Examine special approaches to treatment of eyelid conditions, including pharmaceutical agents including mechanisms of action, risks, and benefits.
3.  Review tumors of the eyelids and determine which are significant and which are of only cosmetic importance.

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