Explore the Latest in Primary Care
This UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practices course presents a comprehensive review of new developments in outpatient management, along with controversies, specialty problems, and best practices in the primary care setting. Dr. Robert Baron and a roster of expert UCSF faculty discuss preventive medicine, reduction of cardiovascular risk factors, day-to-day clinical problems, chronic disease management, women’s health, geriatrics, behavioral medicine, optimal use of diagnostic tests and new medications, and more.
* Date of Original Release: December 15, 2023
Learning Objectives
After completing the UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practices course, participants should be able to:
- Implement new guidelines in office-based preventive medicine, including new strategies for cancer screening, immunizations, prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, and STIs
- Manage common office problems including diabetes, coronary heart disease, valvular heart disease, chronic kidney disease, asthma, COPD, stroke, TIAs, osteoporosis, liver disease, obesity, BPH, anxiety, depression, sleep disorders, eye disease, skin disease, and chronic pain
- Manage common specialty problems in cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine, rheumatology, hepatology, nephrology, neurology, urology, dermatology, gynecology, sports medicine, otolaryngology, and ophthalmology
- Diagnose and treat common problems in women’s health including cancer prevention, family planning, genitourinary symptoms, and osteoporosis
- Understand the impact that COVID-19 has had on primary care practice and use best practices to treat patients with COVID-related conditions
- Understand the impact that changes in health policy have on clinical practice
- 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