Transforming Patient Care: Innovative Educational Programs for Women’s Health

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically transformed patient care, particularly in outpatient practice. As a result, our ambulatory environments have undergone significant changes, and telemedicine has become an essential strategy. However, the unique needs of women patients and women healthcare providers require innovative educational programs that focus on women’s health.

Our upcoming course, chaired by Dr. Robert B. Baron and moderated by UCSF’s best teachers, is designed to provide a practical, state-of-the-art update on a full range of common but controversial issues in women’s health. The impact of COVID-19 on women’s health, health disparities, and the care of vulnerable patients will be emphasized.

Target Audience

This course is designed for family physicians, internists, gynecologists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, and all others involved in providing quality healthcare for women.

Objectives

The purpose of this course is to increase competence and improve clinician practice in women’s health and primary care. We specifically anticipate improvements in skills and strategies to:

• Understand the impact of COVID-19 on women’s health and use best evidence to treat patients with acute and chronic COVID-related conditions and concerns.
• Discuss and implement new guidelines for women for prevention and early detection of cancer with clinical exams, pap tests, HPV tests, genetic tests, diagnostic imaging, and colposcopy.
• Discuss and implement new guidelines for women to prevent infectious diseases with public health approaches, vaccines, medications, screening tests, and counseling.
• Diagnose and treat common and controversial problems in women’s health, including STIs, HIV, acute GYN issues, common cancers, osteoporosis, incontinence, anxiety, and depression, menopause, obesity, asthma, and COPD.
• Diagnose and treat common skin conditions in women.
• Counsel patients about treatment options in contraception and abortion.
• Address common clinical concerns of older women.
• Select the best diagnostic tests.
• Evaluate and prescribe new medications.
• Utilize optimal strategies to enhance value in medical practice.
• Optimize patient communication and shared-decision making.
• Develop best practices to address health disparities and care for vulnerable patients.
• Advocate for quality healthcare services for all women.

Course Outline

Thursday, December 8, 2022

• 7:30 am – Continental Breakfast and Course Registration
• 8:00 am – Course Webinar Opens
• 8:20 am – Welcome and Announcements, Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
• 8:30 am – RxG: Updates and Controversies in Breast Cancer Screening, Karla M. Kerlikowske, MD
• 9:10 am – Discussion
• 9:20 am – Rx: Sex, Drugs, and STIs, Ina Park, MD, MS
• 10:00 am – Discussion
• 10:10 am – Coffee Break
• 10:30 am – RxG: Management of Acute Gynecological Issues in Office Practice, Sara Whetstone, MD
• 11:10 am – Discussion
• 11:20 am – RxG: Prevention of Infections in Women: Best Practices in Vaccination, Lisa Winston, MD
• 12:00 pm – Discussion
• 12:10 pm – Lunch (On Your Own)
• 1:30 pm – RxG: Initial Management of Common Cancers in Women, Sam Brondfield, MD, MA
• 2:10 pm – Discussion
• 2:20 pm – Rx: Updates in Family Planning, Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS
• 3:00 pm – Discussion
• 3:10 pm – Coffee Break
• 3:30 pm – RxG: Current Challenges in Lung Disease: Asthma, COPD, and Post-Covid Sequelae, Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MA Ed
• 4:10 pm – Discussion
• 4:20 pm – RxG: Dermatology Update: What’s New in Women’s Skin Health, Lindy Fox, MD
• 5:00 pm – Discussion
• 5:10 pm – Adjourn

Friday, December 9, 2022

• 8:00 am – Continental Breakfast
• 8:15 am – Course Webinar Opens
• 8:30 am – RxG: Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis: What’s New and Controversial?, Douglas C. Bauer, MD
• 9:10 am – Discussion
• 9:20 am – RxG: Gynecologic Issues in Older Women, Rebecca Jackson, MD
• 10:00 am – Discussion
• 10:10 am – Coffee Break
• 10:30 am – RxG: Best Practices in Managing Depression and Anxiety in Women, Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
• 11:10 am – Discussion
• 11:20 am – RxG: Updates in Cervical Cancer Screening and Screening Pelvic Exams: 2022 and Beyond, George F. Sawaya, MD
• 12:00 pm – Discussion
• 12:10 pm – Lunch (On Your Own)
• 1:30 pm – RxG: What’s New in Management of Menopause and Peri-menopausal Symptoms?, Judith M.E. Walsh, MD, MPH
• 2:10 pm – Discussion
• 2:20 pm – RxG: What Have We Learned from HIV, Covid-19, and Monkeypox: Commonalities, Distinctions, and Lessons for the Future, Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH
• 3:00 pm – Discussion
• 3:10 pm – Coffee Break
• 3:30 pm – RxG: Office Assessment and Treatment of Obesity: Diets, Drugs, and Surgery, Diana Thiara, MD
• 4:10 pm – Discussion
• 4:20 pm – Rx: Abortion Post-Dobbs: Best Practices in the Current and Future Environment, Jennifer Kerns, MD, MS, MPH
• 5:00 pm – Discussion
• 5:10 pm – Adjourn

*G- Geriatric Credit *Rx- Meets Requirements for Pharmacotherapeutics CEUs for NPs/Nurses