Blind Spots (CHES)

RDN Level: 1 CPE

RDN CPE Type: 741 Enduring

CHES Competencies for 18.5 Hour Course - 8.5 CHES Hours

1.1.2 Identify priority populations

1.2.6 Identify existing data gaps

4.4.3 Identify limitations and delimitations of findings

MCHES Competencies for 18.5 Hour Course - 10 MCHES Hours

1.4.1 Compare findings to norms, existing data and other information

4.4.1 Explain how findings address the question or hypothesis

4.4.2 Compare findings to other evaluations and studies

4.4.5 Identify implications for practice

4.5.4 Translate findings into practice and interventions

Upon completion, the users will be able to:

1.  Discuss the historical controversy over peanut allergies in children and how the wrong advice by physicians created a surge in allergies.

2.  Describe how hormone replacement therapy was misrepresented by the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study.

3.  Identify three known benefits of hormone replacement therapy when it is started within 10 years of menopause.

4.  Compare cardiac risks between a woman taking statins or using unopposed oral estrogen.

5.  Discuss three negative consequences of over prescribed antibiotics, especially in children.

6.  Explain two problems with our belief that saturated fat intake increases cholesterol levels in the blood.

7.  Describe three instances where general medical advice from reputable sources concluded wrong and what caused that to happen.

8.  Discuss three reasons why so many published studies must be retracted.