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.
  • Recognize the medical-legal risks of integrating artificial intelligence into clinical care and develop strategies to mitigate liability.
  • 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.

2026-27 Course Objectives

After completing The 2026–27 Medical-Dental-Legal Update you should have acquired the knowledge that will enable you to better:

  • Identify key strategies for managing complex patient interactions in to improve outcomes and reduce physician stress.
  • Recognize the stages of medical malpractice litigation and develop strategies to manage risk, documentation, and personal stress during the legal process.
  • Understand the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of thiamine deficiency across neurologic and systemic disorders.
  • Identify legal strategies to safeguard personal and business assets against potential creditor claims.
  • Learn to better incorporate updated diagnostic tools and treatment strategies for Alzheimer’s disease into clinical practice.
  • Understand current evidence-based strategies, including lifestyle interventions and pharmacologic therapies, to the assessment and management of obesity in clinical practice.
  • Apply core ethical principles to the evaluation, deployment, and governance of artificial intelligence in clinical care.
  • Enhance understanding of the role of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in reducing mortality, improving health outcomes, and optimizing long-term disease prevention. 
  • Better understand how to Integrate validated tools and pharmacologic strategies to improve remission rates in major depressive disorder.
  • Equip medical professionals with strategies to safeguard assets, build sustainable wealth, and avoid common business and investment errors that threaten long-term financial security.
  • Better understand the latest evidence-based strategies in preventive cardiology and lifestyle medicine to reduce cardiovascular disease risk and improve long-term health outcomes.
  • Identify strategies for optimizing revenue cycle management.
  • Apply updated evidence-based strategies to improve diagnosis and long-term management of gout.
  • Understand the core responsibilities, leadership competencies, and system-level functions of the Chief Medical Officer in modern healthcare organizations.
  • Understand what radiologic imaging to order and why. 
  • Understand the legal expectations, ethical considerations, and practical preparation required of physicians serving as medical expert witnesses or responding to subpoenas and depositions.
  • Discuss the epidemiology, prevention and outbreak control of communicable diseases.
  • Understand the process of transforming clinical observations into research questions and designing studies that advance evidence-based medicine.
  • Understand the role of circadian rhythm in healthy sleep.
  • Identify the pros and cons of private equity practice acquisition.

All learning objectives above address IOM/ACGME core competencies.

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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