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Cruise Conference Planning For Your Association

Topics in Emergency Medicine & Family Medicine

7-Night Greece & Croatia Cruise
Round-trip Venice (Ravenna), Italy
July 20 - 27, 2024
Royal Caribbean's <em>Explorer of the Seas</em>
Royal Caribbean's Explorer of the Seas
16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
16 ACPE Credits
6.0 Hours of Pharmacology for Nurse Practitioners
16.0 Contact Hours
Course Fees
$995 for Physicians, Attorneys, Psychologists, Doctors of Pharmacy, & Dentists
$795 for Physician Assistants
$595 for Nurses, Residents, Students & Others

Target Audience
Physicians, Physician Assistants, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Pharmacists
Program Purpose / Objectives
  1. Managing Pain can be Painless: Pain Management without Opioids
    • Identify non-narcotic medications to use for pain management
  2. Updates on Pediatric fever in the ED
    • Evaluate the use of ancillary tests in pediatric fever
  3. Bronchiolitis: what do I do?
    • Discuss current management in patients with Bronchiolitis
  4. Magnify your XR vision: Apply tips to improve their ability to interpret radiographs in the emergency department
  5. Can you do two things at once? Managing a busy ED while teaching others
    • Describe and discuss common clinical teaching techniques
  6. Beyond the Feedback Sandwich - How to give feedback in an effective way
    • Describe and discuss common feedback techniques
  7. Foreign body ingestion
    • List different types of foreign body ingestions
    • Discuss management of foreign body ingestions
  8. Foreign body Aspiration
    • List different types of foreign body Aspiration
    • Discuss management of foreign body Aspiration
  9. Health Promotion: Encouraging a Healthy Body, Mind, and Spirit
    • Assess the patient's current state of physical, psychological, and spiritual health.
  10. Treatment of Migraine, Tension-Type, and Cluster Headaches
    • Effectively treat patients with migraine headache using non-pharmacologic means, abortive medications, and preventive medications.
    • Consider that tension-type and cluster headaches are discrete sub- types of headache, each of which requires a specific diagnostic approach
  11. Diagnosing and Managing Depression: Overcoming the Blues
    • Sustain initial treatment for depression for six months after remission of symptoms to lower risk of relapse
    • Recognize that depression is a common, but often misdiagnosed illness, which can be treated effectively by primary care physicians using medical therapy, psychotherapy, and adjunctive treatment
    • Utilize the following adjunctive treatments where appropriate:
      • Patient education (“bibliotherapy”)
      • Diet (limit sugar, simple CHOs, caffeine)
      • Exercise (150 min/week)
      • Behavioral activation (pleasant activities)
      • Light (10,000 lux for 30 min daily)
      • Support (“iatrotherapy”)
      • Spirituality
  12. Get Me Out of Here!: Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia in Primary Care
    • Elicit and assess symptoms of panic disorder and agoraphobia
    • Apply appropriate lifestyle modification and stress management skills, including muscle relaxation, breathing control, thought-stopping, and cognitive restructuring
  13. Somatoform Disorders: Illness as a Way of Life
    • Recognize the key symptoms, signs, and clinical presentation of somatizing patients.
  14. Communication: Becoming a Healer
    • Consider the clinician's role from the personal and psychosocial aspects of care their clinicians
  15. The Faith Factor: Practicing Spiritually- Sensitive Care
    • Elicit a spiritual history in an ethically-appropriate manner. Spiritually-sensitive care enhances the clinician-patient relationship and may positively influence health care outcomes.
Conference Sessions generally take place on days at sea (as itinerary allows), giving you plenty of time to enjoy your meals, evenings and ports of call with your companion, family and friends.
IMPORTANT NOTE: All conferees, their families, and guests must book their cruise within the University at Sea® meeting group through University at Sea® at 800-926-3775 or by registering online. This ensures our company can provide conference services and complimentary social amenities to all meeting participants and their guests. Thank you for your cooperation.
Faculty

Dale A. Matthews, MD, FACP

Dale A. Matthews, MD, FACP
Dale A. Matthews, MD, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine (retired)
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Executive Healthcare Services (retired)
Dale A. Matthews, MD, FACP has served on the faculties of Yale University, the University of Connecticut, and Georgetown University and has lectured at over 30 medical schools. He gives lectures on primary care general internal medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, and the psychological and spiritual dimensions of medicine, including the role of religion, faith, and prayer in clinical care. He is the author of The Faith Factor: Proof of the Healing Power of Prayer (Viking, 1998), a four-volume research work (The Faith Factor: An Annotated Bibliography of Clinical Research on Spiritual Subjects), three documentaries, and over 65 peer-reviewed scientific articles, book chapters, and other publications. Dr. Matthews is a graduate of Princeton (AB, cum laude, Romance Languages, 1976) and Duke University School of Medicine (1980). His internship and residency in internal medicine took place at the University of Connecticut (1980-3) and he completed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar Program and Fellowship in Clinical Epidemiology at Yale (1983-5). In 1989, he was named the George Morris Piersol Teaching and Research Scholar of the American College of Physicians. He has received many awards for his compassionate patient care, including Washingtonian Magazine Top Doctor recognition. He has appeared on numerous television shows, including the Oprah Winfrey Show, Larry King Live, and Good Morning America. He lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife, Demetra, a certified public accountant. He has two adult children and three grandchildren. He enjoys family and church activities, Bible study and teaching, golf, baseball, piano, singing, songwriting, ballroom dancing, travel, and photography.

Caroline M. Molins, MD MSMEd FACEP FAAEM

Caroline M. Molins, MD MSMEd FACEP FAAEM
Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida, College of Medicine (UCF COM), Orlando, FL
Clinical Assistant Professor, Florida State University, School of Medicine (FSU SOM), Tallahassee, FL
Curriculum Director/Core Faculty, AdventHealth Emergency Medicine Residency
Physician, Florida Emergency Physicians of TeamHealth; Florida Hospital Orlando Dr. Molins is an Assistant Professor at the University of South Alabama (USA) and a fulltime physician at USA University Hospital & Children and Women’s Hospital since January 2023. Previously, she was the Assistant Program Director and Curriculum Director at AdventHealth Emergency Medicine Residency (2020-2022) and held roles at Loma Linda University, the University of Central Florida, and Florida State University.

Dr. Molins received a master’s in medical education from Lake Erie College of Medicine, completed an Emergency Medicine Residency at the University of Puerto Rico SOM, earned a Doctorate in Medicine from Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine, and a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Florida International University.

Dr. Molins has a significant presence in academic presentations and participation. They have presented at local, regional, national and international conferences such as FCEP Symposium by the Sea, SAEM SE Regional conference, CORDEM Academic Assembly and the Mediterranean Emergency Medicine Congress. She has also been involved as a judge in national emergency medicine competitions and contributed to numerous scholarly works, including peer-reviewed articles to medical journals AEM Education and Training, Cureus and Western Journal of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Molins is a member of several professional organizations, including CORD EM, AAEM, and ACEP, and has participated in professional development programs such as ALiEM, ACEP’s EDDA and EMBRS and MERC Scholars.

Dr. Molins holds active medical licenses in Alabama and Florida, with certifications in Advanced Trauma Life Support, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, and Basic Life Support. She has received multiple awards, including the Golden Apple Award from UCF COM and Preceptor of the Year from AdventHealth Emergency Medicine Residency.

Her volunteer work includes being a founding member of the Women’s Philanthropic Giving Circle of Central Florida, participating in the AdventHealth for Children’s Pet Therapy Program, sees the Hispanic underserved community at Clinica MiSalud and plays competitive tennis.

Our staff can assist you with all your travel arrangements.

Questions? Call us at 800-422-0711.
We can assist you with all your travel arrangements. We'd be happy to help you plan your flights, hotels or tours before and/or after your cruise conference.

Cruise Itinerary

DATE PORT OF CALL ARRIVE DEPART
Sat Jul 20 Venice (Ravenna), Italy
- 6:00 pm
Sun Jul 21 Dubrovnik, Croatia
11:00 am 7:00 pm
Mon Jul 22 *At Sea - Cruising
- -
Tue Jul 23 Athens (Piraeus), Greece
6:00 am 6:00 pm
Wed Jul 24 Santorini, Greece
7:00 am 8:00 pm
Thu Jul 25 *At Sea - Cruising
- -
Fri Jul 26 Split, Croatia
9:00 am 5:00 pm
Sat Jul 27 Venice (Ravenna), Italy
6:00 am -
*Tentative course schedule, actual class times may differ.

Ports of Call

Venice (Ravenna), Italy - Located on the Adriatic coast in North-East Italy, Ravenna was briefly the capital of the Roman Empire and later the Italian capital of the Byzantine Empire. During this time, incredible mosaics were constructed throughout the city. Described as a symphony of color in Dante's Divine Comedy, Ravenna's well-preserved mosaics are some of the finest remaining in the Western world.

Dubrovnik, Croatia - Thick 16th-century stone walls encase the entire Old Town of Dubrovnik. But there are no boundaries on the endless adventures you’ll discover among its orange-roofed ramparts. With a made-for-TV appeal— Game of Thrones was actually filmed here— the city commands your attention with the perfectly preserved Rector’s Palace, elaborate Onofrio’s Fountain, and baroque St. Blaise’s Church, named after the city’s patron saint. You can browse museum collections showcasing Croatian artwork, period furniture and shipbuilding traditions. Stand in awe of the Franciscan Monastery library’s 30,000 volumes. Or to get your heart pumping, go cliff diving into the sea and kayak crystal blue waters, with the ‘Pearl of the Adriatic’ shimmering in the distance.

At Sea - Cruising - Cruising

Athens (Piraeus), Greece - As the capital of Greece and one of Europe’s most bustling cities, Athens is powered by 5,000 years of history. At night, the city of Athens glows from afar, light reflecting off the ancient ruins. Today travelers flock from around the world to experience its history while on cruises from Athens. After all, the art, theatre, architecture, and philosophy of Athens had ripple effects through the fabric of entire civilizations.

Santorini, Greece - Here on the island of Santorini, you'll find a classic Greek seascape‐whitewashed houses accented by sea-blue roofs. This is a treasure trove for both professional and amateur archeology buffs, with sites that include tombs that date back to the 9th century and the sanctuary of Apollo.

Split, Croatia - The second largest city in Croatia, Split has many attractions but is best known for the many historical landmarks found within and around the walls of Diocletian's Palace and the 1700-year old harbour beneath it. The Old Town which comprises the palace is in a remarkable state of preservation. In addition, the Split-Dalmatia County has numerous museums, old churches and other archeological sites which make it an important cultural attraction. History, culture, scenic countryside and the sunny weather make Split a sought after destination for vacationers and water sports lovers.

Our staff can assist you with all your travel arrangements.

Questions? Call us at 800-422-0711.
We can assist you with all your travel arrangements. We'd be happy to help you plan your flights, hotels or tours before and/or after your cruise conference.
SHORE EXCURSIONS
Please note that our shore excursions are operated separately and
independently of those offered by the cruise line.
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