Family Practice: Recreational Bugs (Audio-Digest Foundation Family Practice Continuing Medical Education (CME). Book 57)

Purpose: Audio-Digest Foundation CME/CE activities are designed to provide its learners – physicians and other healthcare professionals – with continuing education that will help identify clinical problems in their practice settings, provide content to help to solve those problems, and increase their application of knowledge to practice.

Audio-Digest Family Practice is specifically designed to provide the participant with state-of-the-art information which builds on the AAFP Core Educational Guidelines, including, but not limited to, the diagnosis and management of:

Alcoholism & Substance Abuse
Allergy & Immunology
Cardiovascular Medicine
Conditions of the Eye
Conditions of the Musculoskeletal System
Conditions of the Nervous System
Conditions of the Skin
Care of Adolescents & Older Adults
HIV Infection/AIDS
Human Behavior and Mental Health
Nutrition
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Occupational Medicine
Disease Prevention & Health Promotion
Rheumatology
Risk Management & Medical Liability
Sports and Recreational Medicine
Urgent and Emergent Care

The goals of this program are to improve management of medical risks associated with travel and to improve the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted infections. After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to:

1: Advise patients on preventing mosquito-transmitted diseases.

2: Select appropriate malaria prophylaxis.

3: Describe common presentations of malaria, South African tick bite fever, and babesiosis.

4: Provide effective treatment for gonococcal and chlamydial infections and syphilis.

5: List indications for hospitalization of women with pelvic inflammatory disease.