Target Audience This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals with updates in primary care medicine Learning Objectives Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to: - Diagnose and manage patients with asthma - Design treatment strategies reflective of current evidence-based medicine for common respiratory infections - Describe the current therapeutic management of COPD - Discuss diagnosis and screening strategies as well as treatment plans for lung nodules and lung cancer - Discuss some of the controversies surrounding pain management - Design non-opioid pain management strategies - Describe the differential diagnosis of headaches and migraines - Identify strategies for managing patients with both chronic pain and addiction - Compare and contrast inflammatory & non-inflammatory joint pain and their differential diagnoses - Review the risks and benefits of the treatment options for arthritis (non-selective NSAIDs, cox-2 inhibitors, DMARDs, narcotics and tramadol) - Identify the risks and benefits of utilizing bisphosphonates in the treatment of osteoporosis - Diagnose and treat gout and pseudogout