Description
What you’ll find in this course description:
Overview
Topics and Speakers
Faculty
Accreditation
Designation
Media Formats
Learning Objectives
Intended Audience
Overview
From this course, you’ll get an in-depth review of latest developments in the outpatient medical field. Its focus is on the strategies and skills needed in daily office practice. It’s guided by Robert B. Baron, MD, MS. The CME program emphasizes guidelines for best practice covering varied topics ranging from cancer to allergy & immunology, to today’s approaches to gout, dermatology, depression, osteoporosis, and to sports medicine, and more.
This course is intended to equip you with knowledge to carry out the following:
- Managing typical problems that include high cholesterol, asthma, coronary heart disease, vertigo, stroke, COPD, TIAs, STDs, sinusitis, hearing loss, diabetes, and substance abuse among others
- Diagnosing and treating women’s health special problems
- Selecting the best diagnostic related tests
- Understanding disparities in health as well as the role you play in providing care that is equitable and patient-centred
Next is information on Topics and Speakers, Accreditation, Designation, Learning Objectives, Media Formats, and Intended Audience.
Expanding Your Skills
The UCSF’s Hot Topics in Primary Care Course is accessible via Audio MP3 CDs or online. The content you receive is unbiased and evidence-based. You’ll also be learning through case-study based reviews to aid you in expanding your knowledge as well as in incorporating the newest guidelines to your day-to-day practice.
Topics and Speakers
Preventive Medicine
- Prevention of Infections: Best Practices in Vaccination – Lisa G. Winston, MD
- Updates in Breast Cancer Screening – Karla M. Kerlikowske, MD
- Cancer Screening 2019: New Recommendations, New Controversies – Judith M.E. Walsh, MD, MPH
- How Should We Approach Cervical Cancer Screening and Routine Pelvic Examinations in 2019? – George F. Sawaya, MD
Clinical Strategies in Primary Care I
- Management of Lipid Disorders: Integrating the New Guidelines – Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
- Safer Opiate Prescribing – Soraya Azari, MD
- Updates in Nutrition and Exercise: New Trials and New Guidelines – Jeffrey A. Tice, MD
- Common and Uncommon Problems in Otolaryngology – Steven Pletcher, MD
Clinical Strategies in Primary Care II
- Current Strategies in Perioperative Medicine – H. Quinny Cheng, MD
- Quality Contraception Care: Counseling and Controversies – Sara Whetstone, MD
- Updates in Hospital Medicine – Bradley A. Sharpe, MD
Clinical Strategies in Primary Care III
- Understanding Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Now More than Ever – Susan Philip, MD, MPH
- Palliative Care Pearls for the Busy Practitioner – Steven Z. Pantilat, MD
- Gout: An Old Disease that is Coming of Age – Jonathan Graf, MD
Clinical Strategies in Primary Care IV
- Current Approaches to Asthma and COPD – Michael Peters, MD
- Best Practices in Chest Imaging for the Non-Radiologist – Brett M. Elicker, MD
- Management of Common Problems in Sports Medicine – Cindy J. Chang, MD
- Current Approaches to Allergy and Immunology – Iris Otani, MD
Clinical Strategies in Primary Care V
- Depression in Primary Care: Mourning or Melancholia? – Descartes Li, MD
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis: What’s New and Controversial in 2019? – Douglas C. Bauer, MD
- Interventional Cardiology for the Non-Cardiologist: New Innovations and New Guidelines – Krishan Soni, MD, MBA
Quick Facts
Provider: University of California, San Francisco
Course Director
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Graduate
Associate Dean for Continuing Medical Education
Faculty
Course Chair
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Graduate and Continuing Medical Education Course Faculty
(University of California, San Francisco, unless indicated)
Course Faculty
Soraya Azari, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Douglas C. Bauer, MD
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Cindy J. Chang, MD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and
Family and Community Medicine
Primary Care Sports Medicine
Brett M. Elicker, MD
Professor of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging
Chief, Cardiac & Pulmonary Imaging
H. Quinny Cheng, MD
Professor of Medicine
Jonathan Graf, MD
Professor of Medicine
UCSF Director, UCSF RA Observational Cohort
Division of Rheumatology
Zuckerberg San Francisco General
Descartes Li, MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Director, UCSF Bipolar Disorder Program
Director, Medical Student Education
UCSF Department of Psychiatry
Karla M. Kerlikowske, MD
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Director of Women’s Health
Research Fellowship at SFVAMC
Steven Z. Pantilat, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Palliative Care
Iris Otani, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Program Director
Allergy and Immunology Fellowship
Susan Philip, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Disease Prevention and Control Branch
San Francisco Department of Public Health
Michael Peters, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Steven Pletcher, MD
Professor of Otolaryngology
Program Director, Otolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) Residency
Bradley A. Sharpe, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine
George F. Sawaya, MD
Professor of Obstetrics
Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
The Robert B. Domush Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology Education
Krishan Soni, MD, MBA
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiology
Director of Value Improvement for Department of Medicine
UCSF Health Subspecialty Services
Jeffrey A. Tice, MD
Professor of Medicine
Judith M.E. Walsh, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Associate Medical Director
UCSF Women’s Health Primary Care Practice
Lisa G. Winston, MD
Professor of Medicine
Vice Chief
Inpatient Medical Services and Hospital Epidemiologist
Zuckerberg San Francisco General
Sara Whetstone, MD
Assistant Professor
Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences
Associate Program Director
Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences Residency
Accreditation
The UCSF (University School of California School of Medicine) has an accreditation from the ACCME (Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education) to offer to physicians continuing medical education.
Designation
This long lasting material is designated by UCSF for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits of up to 15.5. Physicians are allowed to only claim the credit equivalent to how far they go in their activity participation.
After successfully completing the CME activity that is inclusive of participating in the evaluation component, participants attain a maximum of 15.5 MOC points in the program for ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine’s) Maintenance of Certification (MOC). They’ll be earning MOC points similar to the number of CME credits that they have claimed for the activity. It’s CME activity provider’s duty to present a participant’s information of completion to ACCME so that they can be granted the ABIM MOC credits.
Submission of registration forms for CME credit must be done before the expiration date as indicated below:
Series Release Date: 15th January 2020
Series Expiration Date: 14th January 2023
Media Formats
This detailed UCSF Hot Topics in Primary Care Course can be accessed by learners through Audio MP3 CDs, online, or combo. The latter format is a combination of the online videos and Audio MP3s, and comes with a USB to aid you listen to the MP3 CDs on your PC or mobile device.
Learning Objectives
Once you complete the course, you should be in a position to understand and carry out the following:
- Managing typical problems that include high cholesterol, asthma, coronary heart disease, vertigo, stroke, COPD, TIAs, STDs, sinusitis, hearing loss, diabetes, and substance abuse among others
- Diagnosing and treating women’s health special problems such as ovarian, cervical, and breast cancer, contraception, routine pelvic checkups, and osteoporosis
- Selecting the best diagnostic related tests as well as enhancing value in medical practice
- Using best evidence as well as optimization of patient communication and making of shared decisions
- Understanding disparities in health as well as the role you play in providing care that is equitable and patient-centred
Intended Audience
This course targets practicing interns, family practitioners as well as other health professionals who are interested in offering excellent primary care services. They’ll receive an exhaustive review of the latest developments within outpatient medicine.
