Explore the Latest in Primary CareÂ
This online CME course presents a comprehensive review of new developments in outpatient management, along with controversies, specialty problems, and best practices in the primary care setting. Dr. Robert Baron and a roster of expert UCSF faculty discuss preventive medicine, reduction of cardiovascular risk factors, day-to-day clinical problems, chronic disease management, women’s health, geriatrics, behavioral medicine, optimal use of diagnostic tests and new medications, and more.
UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practices uses 20+ continuing medical education lectures and case-based discussions to focus on health disparities and promote quality, safety, equity, and value in the care of vulnerable patients with COVID-19 and other common illnesses.
Date of Original Release:Â December 15, 2023
Learning Objectives
After completing the UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practices course, participants should be able to:
- Implement new guidelines in office-based preventive medicine, including new strategies for cancer screening, immunizations, prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, and STIs
- Manage common office problems including diabetes, coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, chronic kidney disease, asthma, COPD, stroke, TIAs, osteoporosis, liver disease, obesity, BPH, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, eye disease, skin disease, and chronic pain
- Manage common specialty problems in cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine, rheumatology, hepatology, nephrology, neurology, urology, dermatology, gynecology, sports medicine, otolaryngology, and ophthalmology
- Diagnose and treat common problems in women’s health including cancer prevention, family planning, genitourinary symptoms, and osteoporosis
- Understand the impact that COVID-19 has had on primary care practice and use best practices to treat patients with COVID-related conditions
- Understand the impact that changes in health policy have on clinical practice
- Select the best diagnostic tests and enhance value in medical practice
- Use best evidence and optimize patient communication and shared decision making
- Become a better clinician and advocate with a deeper understanding of structural racism, health disparities, and the central role of primary care clinicians in providing equitable, patient-centered care
Intended Audience
This course is for practicing internists, family practitioners, and all other health professionals interested in providing high quality primary care. This course will present a comprehensive review of new developments in outpatient medicine.
+ Topics:
1. Controversies in Cancer Screening 2023.mp4
2. Best Practices in Adult Vaccination.mp4
3. Chronic Kidney Disease – Integrating New Tests, New Guidelines & New Medications.mp4
4. Diagnosis & Treatment of Osteoporosis – What’s New & Controversial in 2023.mp4
5. Current Challenges in Management of Asthma & COPD.mp4
6. Type 2 Diabetes – Which Medications for Which Patients.mp4
7. Management of Outpatient Respiratory Infections as the Covid Pandemic Evolves.mp4
8. Covid-19 – Where Do We Stand, What Have We Learned, Where are We Going.mp4
9. Quality Contraceptive Care – Counseling & Controversies.mp4
10. Updates in the Evaluation & Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea – What We Can Learn from the Upper Airway.mp4
11. Prevention, Detection & Treatment of Common Liver Diseases in 2023.mp4
12. Cardiology for the Non-Cardiologist – New Innovations & New Guidelines.mp4
13. Urologic Health in the Aging Male.mp4
14. Dementia 2023 – The Latest on Diagnosis, Treatment & Prevention.mp4
15. Updates in Health Policy – Implications for Practicing Clinicians.mp4
16. STIs In 2023 – Best Practices for Prevention & Treatment.mp4
17. Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain – Fibromyalgia to Long Covid & Everything in Between.mp4
18. Management of Common Disorders of the Eye.mp4
19. Gynecologic Issues in Older Women.mp4
20. Office Assessment & Treatment of Obesity – Diets, Drugs & Surgery.mp4
21. Dermatology in Primary Care – Recognition & Treatment of Common & Uncommon Disorders of the Skin.mp4
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