2024-25 Course Objectives

After completing The 2024–25 Medical-Dental-Legal Update you should have acquired the knowledge that will better enable you to:

  • Understand the evolution and current state of hypertension management.
  • Identify financial controls to prevent fraud and increase revenue.
  • Appreciate the correlation between brain health and sleep quality.
  • Discuss the impact of communication on practice risk.
  • Identify and manage patients with GERD.
  • Appreciate the role of the physician witness and how it’s best executed.
  • Identify medical findings revealed by chest X-ray imaging.
  • Understand the planning, negotiating, and implementing a practice merger or acquisition.
  • Offer informed cardiovascular disease diagnostic, prevention and treatment advice.
  • Understand methods to optimize retirement planning and practice value.
  • Identify current clinical practice guidelines and medications for the treatment of heart failure.
  • Identify screening, treatment and surveillance options for colorectal cancer.
  • Identify management approaches for adult and adolescent acne.
  • Identify and avoid office and clinical medical malpractice pitfalls.
  • Understand new cholesterol treatment guidelines and medications.
  • Identify and manage patients at risk for addiction.
  • Appreciate the nature and benefits of the Mediterranean Diet.
  • Understand how the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 impacts effective retirement planning.
  • Consider new treatment options for insomnia and obstructive sleep apnea.
  • Identify ways to optimally position a practice for sale or merger.

2025-26 Course Objectives

After completing The 2025–26 Medical-Dental-Legal Update you should have acquired the knowledge that will better enable you to:

  • Identify practical updates from recent medical literature that improve everyday clinical decision-making.
  • Understand the fundamental principles of medical malpractice litigation to better navigate legal risk in clinical practice.
  • Identify the clinical features of Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections and apply appropriate diagnostic and management strategies.
  • Explain the foundational concepts behind large language models (LLMs) and their applications in healthcare.
  • Identify and explain the clinical relevance and therapeutic implications of ten recently introduced or reintroduced pharmacologic agents.
  • Appreciate the impact of diet on cardiovascular health.
  • Understand legal structures, insurance tools, and planning strategies to protect personal and practice assets and minimize exposure to lawsuits, creditors, and taxes.
  • Understand diagnostic, evaluation and treatment approaches for Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease.
  • Apply current evidence and historical trial data to inform optimal hypertension management.
  • Demonstrate effective prompting strategies to optimize generative AI performance in healthcare settings.
  • Understand the role of physician leadership in shaping health policy, advancing advocacy, and improving the future of healthcare delivery.
  • Improve understanding of the cardiovascular risks associated with extreme exercise, high-intensity interval training, and endurance sports, and explore strategies for mitigating adverse outcomes.
  • Better understand evidence-based strategies to the diagnosis and management of COPD in the outpatient setting.
  • Recognize the limitations, risks, and ethical considerations associated with generative AI in clinical environments.
  • Discuss the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of acute pain.
  • Understand metrics, analyses and strategies to better ensure practice profitability.
  • Learn updated diabetes treatment strategies based on recent evidence prioritizing cardiovascular and renal outcomes.
  • Understanding of the element, efficacy and necessity of executive health physicals.
  • Provide actionable strategies for professional and personal success by exploring the habits, mindsets, and behaviors of high achievers.

Presented weekly in over 50 premier destinations, The Update is a 20 hour review of important clinical topics and pressing issues in medical malpractice, risk management, practice management and healthcare law. In one course you will receive vital instruction in topics ranging from pain management, heart disease, cancer screening, sleep medicine, radiology updates, to asset protection, fraud prevention & financial intelligence.

Program Description

The Update is produced in state-of-the-art studios utilizing 4K digital technology and presented via COVID-safe, Destination-based, Remote Classrooms. That means, as in the past, you will participate in the travel destination of your choice during scheduled lecture hours, however, you will view The Update on your laptop, tablet or smart phone from the comfort and safety of your hotel room or condominium. And you will do so in the virtual and interactive company of your colleagues in attendance at the same time.

We think this offers the best of all worlds: Comfort, safety, and the ability to interact in real time with a multi-discipline audience of professional peers. You will have over 1,000 oppor­tunities to attend, at your choice of over 40 premier sun and ski resorts, through the end of September – virtually any week you choose.

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