UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practices 2021 CME VIDEOS

UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practices 2021 CME VIDEOS

UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practices includes 22 online CME lectures that will help you meet the challenges of health disparities and the care of vulnerable and complex patients. Learn to maximize quality, safety, equity, and value, along with essential strategies for collaboration with other specialists, inpatient colleagues, and diverse teams of health professionals.
Learning 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 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, heart failure, asthma, COPD, stroke, TIAs, osteoporosis, common cancers, Parkinson’s Disease, dementia, chronic pain and substance use disorder
Manage common specialty problems in neurology, cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine and critical care, oncology, dermatology, allergy and immunology, gynecology, and perioperative care
Diagnose and treat common problems in women’s health including cervical, breast, endometrial, and ovarian cancer, contraception, osteoporosis, and gynecological concerns of older women
Understand the health implications of climate change and what health professional can do about it
Improve skills in medical documentation to maximize clinical efficiency and quality, best practices, and alignment with recent changes in federal requirements
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 designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, advance practice providers, and all other health professionals interested in providing high quality primary care.
TOPICS / SPEAKERS

Prevention of Common Infections Best Practices in Vaccination Lisa Winston, MD
Cervical Cancer Screening and Routine Pelvic Exams in 2021 and Beyond George F. Sawaya, MD
Current Challenges in Lung Disease: Asthma, COPD, Smoke, and Post-Covid Sequelae Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd
Controversies in Cancer Screening 2021 Colon, Breast, Lung, and Prostate Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH
Assessment of Abnormal Uterine Bleeding and Early Detection of Uterine Cancer Sara Whetstone, MD
Initial Management of Common Cancers Sam Brondfield, MD, MA
Gynecologic Issues in Older Women Hot and Dry, But Sometimes Wet Rebecca Jackson, MD
Best Practices in Addiction Medicine for Primary Care Clinicians Irina (Era) Kryzhanovskaya, MD
Current Strategies in Pre-operative Medical Evaluation H. Quinny Cheng, MD
Chronic Kidney Disease What the Generalist Needs to Know Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH
The Climate Crisis is a Health Crisis What Can Health Professionals Do? Katherine Gundling, MD
Working to Cure Dementia Bench to Bedside and Beyond Bruce Miller, MD
Covid-19: Where Do We Stand? What Have We Learned? Where are We Going? George Rutherford, III, MD
New Paradigms in Management of Heart Failure Mandar Aras, MD PhD
Cardiology for the Non-Cardiologist New Innovations and New Guidelines Krishan Soni, MD, MBA
Health Care Disparities and Systemic Racism: Before, During, and After Covid Alicia Fernandez, MD
The 2021 CDC STI Treatment Guidelines are Finally Here! Michael Policar, MD MPH
Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis & What’s New and Controversial in 2021? Douglas C. Bauer, MD
Management of Type 2 Diabetes Which Medications for Which Patients? Robert Rushakoff, MD, MS
Charting New Waters Best Practices in Clinical Documentation Elisabeth Askin, MD
Update on the Treatment of Parkinson’s Disease Jill Ostrem, MD
Managing Hypertension in 2021 How Do We Work with Conflicting Guidelines? Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Date of Original Release: December 15, 2021
Date Credits Expire: December 14, 2024