Specialty Topics

Financial Services
"Talk to the Pros" • Outlook on Global Economy • If Disability Strikes

Physicians-in-Training
Abstract Competition • Student Loan Consolidation • LIFE Curriculum • Writing a Paper •
Physician Recruiters • Your Place in Today’s Medicine • Addressing Healthcare Disparaties

Neurology
Dizziness vs. Vertigo • Transient Ischemic Attacks • Brain Attacks •
Neurocardiogenic Syncope and Tilt Table

General Surgery
Disparities in Renal Failure and Transplantation • Acute Kidney Injury • Robotic Surgery •
Obesity Surgery • Plastic Surgery after Bariatric Surgery • Disparities in Surgical Healthcare

Infectious Diseases
Hospital Acquired MRSA • Drug Resistance • Virulence Genes •
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory • Pharmacology • Chlamydia species •
Chlamydia pneumoniae Respiratory Tract Syndrome

Geriatric Medicine
Prostate Problems • Psychopharmacology • Failure to Thrive • Stroke • When to Treat

Women’s Health
CDC STD Guidelines • Adolescent Contraception • Hormone Updates • NOF Guidelines •
HPV Vaccine • Prevention of Preterm Labor • First Trimester Genetic Screening •
Abnormal Pap Smears in Pregnancy • Pelvic Adhesions • Ovarian Cancer Screening •
Uterine Fibroids

Hypertension & Nephrology
Evaluation of Hypertensive Patients • Initial Drug Therapy • Getting to Goal •
Chronic Kidney Disease

Gastroenterology
GI Motility • Dyspepsia • IBS • PillCam • CT Colonography • EUS • Fecal DNA •
Double Balloon • Virtual CT • MRI • Confocal Colonoscopy • GERD • Obesity •
Travelers Diarrhea • Constipation

Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgery
Joint Arthoplasty • Knee and Ankle Injuries • Fractures Treated Nonoperative •
When to Refer

Cardiovascular Medicine
The Southern Influence — Last 100 years • CV Prevention • Hypertension •
Peripheral Vascular Disease • Electrophysiology • Congestive Heart Failure •
Cardiac Imaging • Cardiovascular Surgery • CV Prevention • Valvular Heart Disease

Oncology
Pancreatic Cancer • Radiologic Imaging • Surgical Treatment • Breast Cancer • Diagnostic Testing • PET Scans • Hormonal and Non-hormonal Therapy

Rheumatology
Biologic Therapies • Gout • Fibromyalgia • Rheumatoid Arthritis • Osteoarthritis

Specialty Sections
Oral Presentations and Moderated Poster Session in up to 25 Specialties

New Drugs Update 2006
Recently Approved Pharmacologic Agents • Indications • Pharmacokinetics • Clinical Trials •
Contraindications • Adverse Reactions • Drug Interactions • Dosing Schedules

Communication Skills
Medical Records • Malpractice • Being an Effective and Efficient Clinician •
Issues of Health Literacy • Difficult Patient Encounters • Patients with Personality Disorders

Diabetes
History of Therapy • Neuropathic Pain • Injectable Therapy • Lipid Therapy

Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine
Ophthalmology • Acute Otitis Media • Child Abuse • Adverse Childhood Experiences •
Pacifier Use • ADHD

Dermatology & Pathology
Zola Cooper Clinical and Dermatopathologic Seminar • Cutaneous Microvascular Occlusion Syndromes • Biologics • Corticosteroids • American Academy of Dermatology Update

Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Management in Primary Care • Outpatient Management of Chest Infections • Asthma

Metabolic Syndrome
Overview of Metabolic Syndrome • Overview and Management in Children •
Conservative Management in Adults

Psychiatry
Insomnia • Use of Antipsychotics • Behavior Disturbance in Dementia •
Neuropsychiatric Complications of HIV

Practice Management
Pay for Performance