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Harvard Primary Care Medicine 2025

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The Comprehensive 2025 Update on State-of-the-Art Primary Care Medicine

Harvard Primary Care Medicine 2025 provides a comprehensive, evidence-based update on the most important advances impacting primary care clinicians across all specialties. This program is designed to help clinicians incorporate current best practices into everyday care, ensuring high-quality, patient-centered, and state-of-the-art primary care.

Formerly known as Primary Care Internal Medicine, this course is led by Harvard Medical School’s leading clinical faculty together with internationally respected guest experts and delivers more than 80 hours of in-depth clinical instruction. Education is practical, results-focused, and structured to address the full spectrum of conditions commonly encountered in primary care practice.

Held entirely online, the course utilizes live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other interactive remote-learning technologies to provide an engaging and flexible learning experience. All updates are paired with clear guidance on how to translate new knowledge and skills into everyday clinical practice.

* Date of original release: October 27 – 31, 2025

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Delineate new and evolving clinical guidelines in primary care, including the management of COPD, congestive heart failure, asthma, hypertension, osteoporosis, obesity, and menopause.
  • Develop innovative skills in clinical reasoning and problem-solving to address common and complex presentations in primary care practice.
  • Assess the clinical value of diagnostic tests commonly used in general internal medicine and specialty practices, including interpretation of sensitivity, specificity, and predictive values.
  • Apply comprehensive, personalized care strategies that account for sex, gender identity, and individual patient circumstances.
  • Recognize medication side effects, interactions, and safety concerns arising from therapies prescribed by primary care clinicians and consulting specialists.
  • Discuss expected therapeutic outcomes and summarize contemporary management strategies for cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurologic, endocrine, reproductive, gastrointestinal, geriatric, psychiatric, metabolic, and infectious diseases.
  • Integrate lifestyle counseling and preventive health strategies into routine clinical practice for both patient and clinician well-being.
  • Identify disease prevention and health promotion priorities, including screening, vaccination, and risk reduction strategies relevant to primary care.
  • Design practical and effective approaches to behavioral health challenges such as smoking cessation, alcohol use disorder, marijuana misuse, and opioid addiction.
  • Apply evidence-based geriatric and palliative care strategies to support autonomy, independence, and quality of life for elderly and end-of-life patients.
  • Confidently examine, evaluate, and manage patients presenting with common orthopedic and musculoskeletal complaints in the primary care setting.

HARVARD PRIMARY CARE MEDICINE 2025

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HARVARD PRIMARY CARE MEDICINE 2025 TOPICS

1. AI in Medicine: Promises and Pitfalls – Ami Bhatt, MD

2. Advanced Treatment Choices for Ischemic Heart Disease – Eric M. Isselbacher, MD

3. What My Mistakes Taught Me – Paul Sax, MD

Workshop Sessions A

A1. Evaluation and Management of Common Knee Disorders – Arun J. Ramappa, MD

A2. Peripheral Vascular Disease for Office Practice – Christopher J. Kwolek, MD

A3. Persistent Heartburn, Dysphagia, and Dyspepsia – V. Alin Botoman, MD

A4. Ophthalmology in Primary Care – Mina Farahani, MD

4. Updates in Allergy: What to Know in 2025 – Anna R. Wolfson, MD

Workshop Sessions B

B1. Painful Shoulder in Primary Care – C. Christopher Smith, MD

B2. Testosterone for Men and Women – Mohit Khera, MD

B3. Postpartum Care & Cardiometabolic Health – Ann C. Celi, MD

B4. Alopecia for the PCP – Maryanne Senna, MD

5. Lessons Learned from My Time as Director of the CDC – Rochelle P. Walensky, MD

6. Women’s Heart Health for the PCP – Emily Lau, MD

Workshop Sessions C

C1. Contraceptive Update – Pelin Batur, MD

C2. Palliative Care & Hospice – Elizabeth C. Lindenberger, MD

C3. Breast & Ovarian Cancer Risk – Nadine M. Tung, MD

C4. Using AI to Optimize the EHR – David Ting, MD

1. Active Management of Chronic Kidney Disease – Melanie P. Hoenig, MD

2. Anticoagulation & VTE Updates 2025 – Rachel P. Rosovsky, MD

3. Memory Loss & Dementia Update – Andrew E. Budson, MD

Workshop Sessions D

D1. Supplement Safety – Pieter Cohen, MD

D2. Abnormal Liver Function Tests – Lawrence S. Friedman, MD

D3. Fluid & Electrolytes – Jeffrey H. William, MD

D4. Movement Disorders – Albert Hung, MD

4. Updates in Lipid Management – Jorge Plutzky, MD

Workshop Sessions E

E1. Hypertension Review – Ksenia Blinnikova, MD

E2. Primary Care of the Pregnant Patient – Meghan L. Rudder, MD

E3. Immune Toxicity – Leyre Zubiri Oteiza, MD

E4. Climate Change & Primary Care – Gaurab Basu, MD

5. Challenging Diabetes Cases – Deborah J. Wexler, MD

6. Current Approaches to Anemia – Lisa B. Weissmann, MD

Workshop Sessions F

F1. Concussions – Patricia A. Gibbons, MD

F2. Opioid Use Disorder & Buprenorphine – Ellie Grossman, MD

F3. Urinary Tract Infections – Jacob Lazarus, MD

F4. ENT & Sleep Apnea – John Dobrowski, MD

1. Liver Diseases of Primary Care Practice – Raymond T. Chung, MD

2. Menopause Updates 2025 – Deborah Gomez Kwolek, MD

3. Atrial Fibrillation – E. Kevin Heist, MD

Workshop Sessions G

G1. Challenging Patient Interactions – Jennifer E. Potter, MD

G2. Supporting Older Adults – Amanda H. Berling, MD

G3. Marijuana Use in Patients – David Shein, MD

G4. Adult ADHD – Donald J. Meyer, MD

4. Tobacco & Vaping Cessation – Nancy Rigotti, MD

Workshop Sessions H

H1. Thyroid Disease – Douglas S. Ross, MD

H2. Foot & Ankle Problems – George H. Theodore, MD

H3. Trauma-Informed Care – Nomi Levy-Carrick, MD

H4. Narrative Medicine – Suzanne Koven, MD

5. Polyarthritis Evaluation – Eli Miloslavsky, MD

6. Heart Failure Updates – Pablo Quintero Pinzon, MD

Workshop Sessions I

I1. Office Endocrinology – Michael S. Irwig, MD

I2. Mild Neurocognitive Disorder – James M. Ellison, MD

I3. LUTS in Aging Male – Heidi Rayala, MD

I4. Opioid Prescribing Challenges – Richard J. Pels, MD

1. Reclaiming Joy in Primary Care – Mahmooda Qureshi, MD

2. COPD & Interstitial Lung Disease – Walter O’Donnell, MD

3. Optimizing Diabetes Care – David M. Nathan, MD

Workshop Sessions J

J1. Female Sexual Health – Juliana Kling, MD

J2. Low Back Pain – Dana H. Kotler, MD

J3. Can’t-Miss Neurology Cases – Alexandra Hovaguimian, MD

J4. STI Prevention – Kevin Ard, MD

4. Primary Care Updates 2025 – Melissa McNeil, MD

Workshop Sessions K

K1. Headache Updates – Angeliki Vgontzas, MD

K2. Gynecologic Cancer – Amy Bregar, MD

K3. AI in Primary Care – David W. Bates, MD

K4. LGBTQIA+ Health Concepts – Alex Keuroghlian, MD

5. Bowel Complaints – Kyle Staller, MD

6. Obesity Treatment – Chika V. Anekwe, MD

Workshop Sessions L

L1. Tick-Borne Diseases – Lou Ann Bruno-Murtha, DO

L2. Hand & Wrist Complaints – Carl Harper, MD

L3. Alcohol Use Disorder – Ellie Grossman, MD

L4. Care of Transgender Patients – Michael S. Irwig, MD

1. Asthma Update – Nancy Lange-Vaidya, MD

2. Overview of Sleep Medicine – James E. Mojica, MD

3. Depression & Anxiety Updates – Anne D. Emmerich, MD

Workshop Sessions M

M1. Dermatology Updates – Evelyn Lilly, MD

M2. Hormone Replacement Therapy – Deborah Gomez Kwolek, MD

M3. Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Bharati Kochar, MD

M4. Trauma-Informed Physical Exam – Sadie Elisseou, MD

4. Breast Cancer: Diagnosis & Treatment – Michelle Specht, MD

Workshop Sessions N

N1. Vaccine Updates – Jodian Pinkey, MBBS

N2. USPSTF Cancer Screening – Michael Barry, MD

N3. Stress Management – Mahmooda Qureshi, MD

N4. Female Sexual Dysfunction – Mallika Anand, MD

5. Osteoporosis Updates – Joy N. Tsai, MD

6. Healthy Lifestyles for Clinicians – Elizabeth P. Frates, MD

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