Mayo Clinic Neurology in Clinical Practice course provides a comprehensive, evidence-based review in recent advances in the evaluation, diagnosis, treatment and management of neurological disorders. The course consists of case-based presentations that serve as a primer of common neurological clinical problems.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to apply the following:
- Utilization of this Mayo Clinic online (enduring materials) course does not indicate nor guarantee competence or proficiency in the performance of any procedures which may be in this course.
- Assess diagnosis and management of common neurological disorders
- Distinguish the potential etiologies of cerebrovascular diseases, headache, dementia, movement disorders, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and neuromuscular diseases
- Develop an appropriate treatment plan for cerebrovascular diseases, headache, dementia, movement disorders, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and neuromuscular diseases
- Compare benefits and risks of different therapies of treatment of seizures
- Recognize different treatment options for patients with spine diseases
- Formulate a plan for patients with nervous system malignancies and paraneoplastic
- Recognize and treat different types of neurologic infectious diseases
- Formulate an algorithm for evaluating patients with peripheral neuropathy, neuromuscular junction disorders, and ALS
- Develop palliative care and pain management strategies in neurologic diseases
- Recognize the difference between primary and secondary headache syndromes