Course Learning Objectives

Upon conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

• Evaluate treatment options for smoking cessation.
• Manage refractory hyperlipidemia, mixed hyperlipidemia, and hypertriglyceridemia.
• Understand commonly-used biomedical statistics used in the medical literature.
• Manage common asymptomatic radiographic abnormalities.
• Appraise new FDA approved drugs from 2008-2009.
• Manage medications in the perioperative period.
• Diagnose and manage celiac sprue.
• Recognize and manage infections due to resistant organisms.
• Interpret cardiac troponins in the clinical context.
• Summarize non-surgical options available for the treatment of back pain when conservative measures fail.
• Interpret laboratory tests in rheumatology.
• Appropriately prescribe opioids in practice.

Attendance at this Mayo course does not indicate nor guarantee competence or proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be discussed or taught in this course.