(2025 On-Demand) Practical Tips for Diagnosing and Managing Inpatient Rheumatic Symptoms

CME Credit Available:

This activity offers 1.00 1A AOA 

Note: ACOI reports credits to the AOA at the beginning of each month.

Learning Objectives:

In this session, you'll learn how to:

• Be able to recognize the signs and symptoms of monoarthritis and initiate the appropriate workup for suspected crystalline arthropathy.
• Describe the clinical presentation of a hospitalized patient that may have an autoimmune connective tissue disease and interpret the laboratory testing needed for diagnosis.
• Apply the appropriate laboratory diagnostics and imaging for a patient with weakness as a chief complaint suspect of having an inflammatory myopathy and determine the next steps in managing. immunosuppressed patients with existing rheumatic disease with joint pain during a hospital admission.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: 

ACOI requires each planner and presenter to identify all conflicts of interest and mitigates risk of bias using a series of strategies for relevant conflicts. Unless otherwise noted below, the ACOI, ACOI staff and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Sharon Banks, DO, faculty for this activity, has no relevant relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Release & Review Date: 

This activity is valid from July 31, 2025, until July 31, 2028.