Obesity Medical Education for Primary Care Module 3: Medication Associated Weight Gain, Optimizing Chronic Medications, and Putting it All Together

Released: October 9, 2020
Expires: September 30, 2023
Credits: 1 CME, 1.3 Nursing, 1.3 Nurse Pharmacology
Credit Fee: Free to the first 65 people who request credit.
Target Audience: Primary Care Providers in and outside of West Virginia looking to address obesity in their practice.

Following completion of this web course, participants should be able to:

Recognize the importance of medication associated weight gain to our practice
Review the most common medications for the most common chronic conditions that can lead to weight gain
Identify alternative medications to reduce medication associated weight gain in our patients
Recognize the importance of optimizing chronic diabetes medications
Recognize that many medications commonly used in primary care may contribute to weight gain
Identify medications that are least likely to contribute to patient's weight problems
Describe the mechanism of action, side effect profile, and weight profile of various diabetes medications
Determine an optimal strategy for choosing medications for diabetes based on individual patient's characteristics
Describe how to go through an obesity medicine visit with a patient with the diagnosis of obesity
Determine how to adjust medications to improve the care of patients with obesity