Pennsylvania 16 Hour Physician Assistant Package
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Alternatives to Opioids for Pain Management 2Course release date: 1/1/2022
Target Audience
This course is designed for all physicians and health care providers involved in the treatment and monitoring of patients with pain.
Course Objective
This CME learning activity is designed to increase physician knowledge and skills about guideline-recommended principles for effectively managing chronic and acute pain conditions with non-opioid pain treatments with a focus non-opioid options for four common painful conditions: osteoarthritis, low-back pain, diabetic neuropathy, and fibromyalgia.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page - Assessment and Prevention of Suicide 6Course release date: 2/1/2023
Target Audience
This course is designed for physicians (MD/DO) and all other health care professionals.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to provide learners with the background and statistical data of suicide within the US, etiology of suicide, suicide risk, assessment, treatment, and management. Additional topics include the risk of imminent harm, communication strategies, and a special focus on the veteran population. - Child Abuse: A Pennsylvania Requirement 2
Course release date: 10/7/2024
About the CourseThe purpose of this course is to educate physicians practicing in the state of Pennsylvania on those topics pertaining to Child Abuse as required by the State Medical Board.
- Guidance on Professional Boundaries and Sexual Misconduct 2Course release date: 1/1/2022
Target Audience:
This course is designed for all physicians and health care providers.
About the Course:
The purpose of this course is to provide important information to help understand and maintain professional boundaries and appropriate relations with patients, including strategies for initiating and conducting sensitive examinations and the communication that is required as a component of such examinations.
Maintenance of Certification (MOC) information can be viewed here: MOC Recognition Page - Intimate Partner Violence: Compassionate Care, Effective Assessment 2
Course release date: 6/1/2023
Target Audience
This course is designed for physicians (MD/DO) and all other health care professionals.
About the course
The purpose of this course is to improve physician understanding of and competence in addressing intimate partner violence in their patient populations. It will provide information on evidence-based screening tools, and instructions for responding in compassionate and effective manners to their affected patients. Instructions for assisting patients in creating safety plans will be reviewed, and suggestions to identify resources helpful to victims of intimate partner violence.
- Medical Errors and the United States Healthcare System 2
Course release date: 5/1/2022
Target Audience
This course is designed for physicians (MD/DO) and all other health care professionals.
Course Objective
The purpose of this course is to update physicians on the continuing impacts and challenges of medical errors for the healthcare system in the United States and to provide strategies to address root causes of these errors.