CME expires July 31, 2028

Enhance your skills to increase accuracy in diagnosing musculoskeletal injuries and conditions.

Welcome to Diagnosis Spotlight, a comprehensive educational course geared for orthopaedic surgeons at all career stages. This course is designed to address a critical aspect of orthopaedic practice: enhancing the accuracy of diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries and conditions. Each course focuses on the pearls and pitfalls for avoiding missed diagnoses and diagnostic errors, with an emphasis on mastering clinical evaluation, recognizing specific imaging findings, systematically evaluating differential diagnoses, and reviewing injury treatment strategies. Enhance your diagnostic skills with real-life case studies, expert insights, interactive learning activities, quizzes, and access to supplemental resources from the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Orthopaedic Video Theater, and AAOS books.

In this Diagnosis Spotlight course, you will review instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty, focusing on clinical assessment, radiographic interpretation, and accurate diagnosis. General strategies for the management of instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty also are discussed.

As an additional resource, this course includes the Revised Safer Dx Instrument, a tool developed by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine to help identify potential diagnostic errors and guide safety improvement efforts that prevent future errors. The instrument assesses various aspects of a primary care encounter for breakdowns in the diagnostic process, and its use can help standardize the detection of diagnostic errors in primary care.

Editors 
James Matthew Gregory, MD, FAAOS

Learning Objectives

• List common challenges in the diagnosis of glenohumeral instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
• Describe key pathophysiologic mechanisms and clinical risk factors that contribute to instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
• Identify modifiable surgical and implant-related factors that influence the risk of instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
• Review best practices for the evaluation and diagnosis of instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
• Differentiate instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty from other conditions with overlapping symptoms.
• Summarize treatment options for instability after reverse shoulder arthroplasty.

Earn up to 5 AMA PRA Category 1 CME credits™.