The Georgia Academy of Family Physicians is hosting additional virtual KSA dates in 2023. All KSAs will be held on Saturdays for your convenience.
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Saturday, July 22, 2023
Palliative Care – 9 am-1 pm
The new Palliative Care ABFM-developed KSA activity focuses on communication strategies, shared decision making, and ethical considerations in palliative care. As well as general principals of pain management, legal regulatory, culture and psychological aspects of palliative care. Managing common palliative care syndromes and recognizing and managing palliative care emergencies.
Heart Disease – 2 pm-6 pm
The new Heart Disease ABFM-developed KSA activity focuses on diagnosis and management of acute coronary syndrome and other manifestations of ischemic heart disease, as well as stable and acute decompensated heart failure. Topics include pathophysiology, EKG interpretation, pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment, and disease progression and outcomes.
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Asthma – 9 am-1 pm
The newly revised Asthma ABFM-developed KSA activity focuses on understanding and identifying the pathogenesis of asthma, diagnosing asthma, managing chronic asthma, recognizing, and managing co-morbidities of asthma, managing exercise-induced asthma, and recognizing and managing complications of asthma therapy.
Health Counseling and Preventative Care – 2 pm-6 pm
The new Health Counseling and Preventive Care ABFM-developed KSA activity combines content from both the current Health Behaviors and Preventive Care KSA activities. This new activity focuses on management of nutrition, sexual health, exercise, smoking avoidance and cessation, substance abuse, cancer screening, screening for medical conditions, chemoprevention, and immunizations.