UCSF Hot Topics in Primary Care Medicine: Enhance Your Clinical Skills with This Comprehensive Review

Stay updated with the latest developments in outpatient medicine with the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Hot Topics in Primary Care Medicine. This in-depth collection of lectures, led by Robert B. Baron, MD, MS, provides primary care clinicians with key strategies for office-based preventive medicine.

Explore the Latest Developments in Outpatient Medicine

This CME program offers a comprehensive review of new developments in primary care, focusing on the day-to-day controversies of office practice. You’ll gain insights into best practice guidelines for a range of topics, including:

• cancer screening and prevention
• allergy and immunology
• current approaches to gout, depression, and dermatology
• sports medicine and osteoporosis

By participating in this program, you’ll be able to:

• manage common problems, including high cholesterol, coronary heart disease, asthma, COPD, stroke, TIAs, vertigo, STDs, diabetes, hearing loss, sinusitis, and substance abuse
• diagnose and treat special problems in women’s health
• select the best diagnostic tests and enhance value in medical practice
• understand health disparities and your role in providing equitable, patient-centered care

Learning Objectives

After completing this program, participants will be able to:

• implement new guidelines in office-based preventive medicine
• manage common office problems, including high blood cholesterol, coronary heart disease, asthma, COPD, gout, stroke, TIAs, vertigo, sexually transmitted infections, diabetes, hearing loss, sinusitis, and substance abuse
• manage common specialty problems in neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, dermatology, allergy and immunology, otolaryngology, orthopedics and sports medicine, gynecology, psychiatry, nutrition, hospital medicine, perioperative care, geriatrics, and palliative care
• diagnose and treat common problems in women’s health, including cervical, breast, and ovarian cancer, routine pelvic exams, contraception, and osteoporosis
• 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 health advocate with a deeper understanding of health disparities and the central role of primary care clinicians in providing equitable, patient-centered care

Intended Audience

This course is designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, and all other health professionals interested in providing high-quality primary care.

Topics and Speakers

The program features a range of topics and speakers, including:

• Preventive Medicine: Prevention of Infections, Breast Cancer Screening, and Cancer Screening 2019
• Clinical Strategies in Primary Care I: Management of Lipid Disorders, Safer Opiate Prescribing, and Common and Uncommon Problems in Otolaryngology
• Clinical Strategies in Primary Care II: Updates in Nutrition and Exercise, Current Strategies in Perioperative Medicine, and Quality Contraception Care
• Clinical Strategies in Primary Care III: Understanding Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Gout, Palliative Care Pearls, and Current Approaches to Asthma and COPD
• Clinical Strategies in Primary Care IV: Management of Common Problems in Sports Medicine, Best Practices in Chest Imaging, and Current Approaches to Allergy and Immunology
• Clinical Strategies in Primary Care V: Depression in Primary Care, Interventional Cardiology, and Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis

Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your clinical skills and stay updated with the latest developments in primary care medicine.