Wounds are a common chief complaint in outpatient family medicine, but a course in wound care is not standard in all teaching programs in the United States. This lecture will aid as a starting point for guiding your clinic based wound assessments and help you feel more confident while assessing common wounds. The most common outpatient wounds (venous, arterial, diabetic and pressure-related) will be reviewed with images so learners will be able to quickly identify them as seen in clinical experiences. A scientific approach will be used to guide thinking that can be used as soon as you return to practice.

Learning Objectives

• Differentiate common wound types encountered in outpatient family medicine.
• Formulate a sound clinical approach to common wounds.
• Develop confidence in your consistent approach for wound management.

Presenter
Katherine Lincoln, DO, MHA, FACOFP

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Accreditation and Credit Statements
The American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians.

ACOFP designates this program for a maximum number of 0.75 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

Disclaimer
This program is sponsored by ACOFP for educational purposes only. The material presented is not intended to represent the sole or best medical interventions for the discussed diagnoses, but rather is intended to present the opinions of the authors or presenters that may be helpful to other practitioners. Attendees participating in this medical education program do so with the full knowledge that they waive any claim they may have against ACOFP for reliance on any information presented during these educational activities.

Questions
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