Series Description:

We will have a specialty of the month that we will highlight within our many primary care meetings. We will share specialty specific clinical pearls, what work up is helpful for the PCP to do prior to referral, etc. Then we will have a virtual teams meeting at the end of the month with 2-4 specialists on a panel, a meeting moderator from primary care leadership, and invite all upstate FM and IM PCPs to attend for feedback and Q&A related to the specialty. We will share key information about the division’s initiatives and most pressing evidence-based medicine / practice changing information from that specialty (ie. change in criteria for lung cancer screening, lowered age and new modalities accepted for colon cancer screening – the big “practice changers” in a specialty that are important for PCPs to know). 

Series Primary Audience:
Practicing Physicians, Fellows, Residents

Series Secondary Audience:
Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Other: referral coordinators

Series Specialty Audience:
Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Other: Family and Internal Medicine will be involved in each lecture and is the target at each meeting.  The other specialties will be monthly.  

Series Contacts:
Activity Chair: Dr. Katherine Gettys
Activity Co-Chair: Dr.  James Gettys
Activity Coordinator: Dr. Katherine Gettys, katherine.gettys@prismahealth.org

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.