The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically changed primary care practice. Difficult management decisions must now be made in transformed ambulatory environments and with virtual medicine. Despite the change in our practice environments, primary care clinicians must continue to focus on preventive medicine, reduction of cardiovascular risk factors, day-to-day clinical problems, chronic disease management, women’s health, geriatrics, behavioral medicine, and optimal use of diagnostic tests and new medications. Health disparities and the care of vulnerable patients are a central part of our daily practice as we try to maximize quality, safety, equity, and value. Close collaboration with other specialists, inpatient colleagues, and diverse teams of health professionals is essential for the care of our complex patients. This course will present a comprehensive review of new developments in outpatient medicine, controversies in primary care practice, and best practices in the care of patients with COVID-19. The course will utilize formal lectures, case discussions, an audience response system, questions and answers, a detailed syllabus, and on-demand access to course recordings. Remote learning opportunities will also be available.

TARGET AUDIENCE
This course, chaired by Dr. Robert B. Baron and taught by UCSF’s best teachers, is designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, advance practice providers, and all other health professionals interested in providing high quality primary care.

Objectives:

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

• Understand the impact that COVID-19 has had on primary care practice and use best evidence to treat patients with COVID-related conditions and concerns, including vaccinations, acute covid, and post-covid sequelae;
• Implement new guidelines in office-based preventive medicine, including new strategies for cancer screening, immunizations, prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, and STDs;
• Manage common office problems including diabetes, coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, chronic kidney disease, asthma, COPD, stroke, TIAs, osteoporosis, liver disease, obesity, BPH, hearing loss, sinusitis, anxiety, depression, eye disease, skin disease, chronic pain and substance use disorder;
• Manage common specialty problems in neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine and critical care, oncology, dermatology, gynecology, sports medicine, otolaryngology, and ophthalmology;
• Diagnose and treat common problems in women’s health including cancer prevention, contraception, menopause, 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 clinician and advocate with a deeper understanding of health disparities and the central role of primary care clinicians in providing equitable, patient-centered care

Course Outline:

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2022

7:30 am Course Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:20 Welcome
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS

8:30 RxG Covid-19: Where Do We Stand? What Have We Learned? Where are We Going?
Peter Chin-Hong, MD

9:10 Discussion

9:20 G Controversies in Cancer Screening 2022: Colon, Breast, Lung, and Prostate
Sam Brondfield, MD ,MA

10:00 Discussion

10:10 Break

10:30 RxG Best Practices in Adult Vaccination: Preventing Infections and Health Inequity
Nicole Appelle, MD, MPH

11:10 Discussion

11:20 G Updates in Cervical Cancer Screening and Screening Pelvic Exams: 2022 and Beyond
George F. Sawaya, MD

12:00 pm Discussion

12:10 Lunch on Your Own

1:30 RxG New Advances in Stroke Prevention and Treatment: What Every Primary Care Clinician Should Know
S. Andrew Josephson, MD.

2:10 Discussion

2:20  RxG Common and Uncommon Problems in Otolaryngology
Steven Pletcher MD

3:00 Discussion

3:10 Break

3:30 RxG  Current Challenges in Lung Disease: Asthma, COPD, and Post-Covid Sequelae
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd

4:10 Discussion

4:20 RxG STIs In 2022: New Prevention Options, Revised Treatment Guidelines, and a Novel STI (Monkeypox)
Stephanie Cohen, MD MPH

5:00 Discussion

5:10 pm Adjourn

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2022

7:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 RxG Substance Use Disorders 201: Clinical Pearls and Common Pitfalls
Jesse Ristau, MD

9:10 Discussion

9:20 RxG Chronic Kidney Disease: Integrating New Tests, New Guidelines, and New Medications
Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH

10:00 Discussion

10:10 Break

10:30 RxG Best Practices in Managing Depression and Anxiety in Primary Care
Emma Samelson-Jones, MD

11:10 Discussion

11:20 RxG Updates in Family Planning
Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD MS

12:00 pm Discussion

12:10 Lunch on Your Own

1:30 RxG Prevention, Detection, and Treatment of Common Liver Diseases in 2022
Rena Fox, MD

2:10 Discussion

2:20 What’s New in Management of Menopause and Peri-menopausal Symptoms?
Judith M.E. Walsh, MD, MPH

3:00 Discussion

3:10 Break

3:30 RxG Dermatology in Primary Care: Recognition and Treatment of Common and Uncommon Disorders of the Skin
Lindy Fox, MD

4:10 Discussion

4:20 RxG Cardiology for the Non-Cardiologist: New Innovations and New Guidelines
Krishan Soni, MD, MBA

5:10 pm Adjourn

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2022

7:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 RxG Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis: What’s New and Controversial in 2022?
Douglas C. Bauer, MD

9:10 Discussion

9:20 RxG Hot Topics in Sports Medicine
Carlin Senter, MD

10:00 Discussion

10:10 Break

10:30 RxG Management of Acute Gynecological Issues in Office Practice
Sara Whetstone, MD, MHS

11:10 Discussion

11:20  RxG  Management of Outpatient Covid:  Best Practices in Patient Assessment and Treatment
Paul Nadler, MD

12:00 pm Discussion

12:10 Lunch on Your Own

1:30 RxG Type 2 Diabetes: Which Medications for Which Patients?
Robert Rushakoff, MD, MS

2:10 Discussion

2:20 RxG  Hot Topics in Genitourinary Disease in Men
Scott R. Bauer, MD, ScM

3:00 Discussion

3:10 Break

3:30 RxG Office Assessment and Treatment of Obesity: Diets, Drugs, and Surgery
Diana Thiara, MD

4:10 Discussion

4:20 Abortion Post-Dobbs:  Best Practices in the Current and Future Environment
Jennifer Kerns, MD, MS, MPH

5:00 Discussion

5:10 pm Adjourn

Rx – Meets Requirements for Pharmacotherapeutics CEUs for NPs/Nurses

G – Geriatric Credit