In April, the ARHP offered this preconference course before the ACR’s State-of-the-Art Clinical Symposium. The program received complimentary reviews, and the demand for additional opportunities to participate in the course led to its addition to the annual meeting pre-conference course list.
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“[The course] really helped advance my joint injection and physical examination skills,” explains Kokila Thirumurthi, DO, of the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth and a participant in the April course who is already implementing what she learned in the course into her daily practice.
Patient volunteers from the Philadelphia area will be available for identification of common rheumatologic joint findings. During the hands-on station, attendees will cover upper- and lower-extremity examinations on adult and pediatric patients as well as directed musculoskeletal assessments and joint-injection practice on prosthetics. They will also learn and practice scoring disease-activity measurement tools such as the HAQ and DAS28.
Past attendee Manuel Chavez, RN, FNP, of Texas Tech University Health Science Center in El Paso, found the design of the course to be beneficial to his learning experience. “I liked the lectures prior to the hands-on skills session. It helped me from going in blindly to the hands-on session, which I enjoyed,” he says. “The patient volunteers were an added plus.” Even more beneficial to Chavez were the joint-injection sessions, which gave him practical skills that he brought back to his practice with the intention of immediate implementation.
This preconference course will enable attendees to walk back into their daily practices with a new set of skills and advanced knowledge of what is required in the treatment of their patients with rheumatic diseases. Space for this course is limited. To register, visit www.rheumatology.org/annual. For additional information, contact Ramona A. Hilliard at (404) 633-3777 or [email protected].
