UCSF CME: Essentials of Primary Care: A Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Practice 2019

UCSF CME: Essentials of Primary Care: A Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Practice 2019 is organized by The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Office of Continuing Medical Education and will be held from Aug 04 - 09, 2019 at Resort at Squaw Creek, Olympic Valley, California, United States of America.

Workshops:
All Workshops are from 10:20 a.m. to 11:50 a.m., Tues, Wed, and Thurs.

08/06/19
S1-A. Dermatologic Procedures in Primary Care
S2-B. Advances in Women’s Health: a Critical Review of the Year’s Most Important Papers 

08/07/19
S3-C. Somatic Symptom Disorder and Related Disorders: Clinical Pearls in Assessment and Treatment
S4-D. Obesity and Weight Management in Office Practice

08/08/19
S5-E. Maximizing Skills in Office Gynecologic Procedures
S6-F. Should it Change Your Practice? A Deeper Look at Some of the Past Year’s Most Important Papers

Accreditation:
UCSF designates this live activity for 20.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Geriatric Medicine: The approved credits shown above include 15.75 geriatric credits toward meeting the requirement under California Assembly Bill 1820, Geriatric Medicine.

Pharmacotherapeutics CEUs for Nurses: For the purposes of recertification the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME. This activity is designated for a maximum of 14.25 pharmacotherapeutic credits towards meeting the requirement for nursing pharmacology continuing education. Nurses should claim 0.1 CEUs for each contact hour of participation in designated pharmacotherapeutic continuing education.

Maintenance of Certification: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 20.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.IMPORTANT: The online course evaluation must be completed by the due date specified - no exception. Within 45 days after submitting your evaluation, we will report your MOC points.

Family Physicians: This Live activity, Essentials of Primary Care: A Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Practice, with a beginning date of 08/04/2019, has been reviewed and is acceptable for up to 19.25 Prescribed credit(s) by the American Academy of Family Physicians. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Overview:
Changing patterns of medical practice are placing greater responsibility on primary care clinicians. Increasingly difficult management decisions must now be made in the ambulatory setting. Primary care clinicians must be increasingly competent in office skills and procedures more commonly associated with specialist practice. At the same time, many specialty-trained physicians, particularly obstetrician/gynecologists, traditionally trained internists and medical subspecialists are being asked to play an expanding their role in primary care practice. Nurse practitioners and physician assistants are also playing an ever-increasing role. This course is designed to provide a comprehensive core curriculum in adult primary care. The course will serve as an excellent update and review for current primary care physicians and other primary care professionals and as an opportunity for specialists to expand their primary care knowledge and skills.

Particular emphasis will be placed on principles of primary care, office-based preventive medicine, practical management of the most common problems seen in primary care practice, and expanded skills in clinical examination and common office procedures. Special emphasis will be placed on office-based skills and problem solving in dermatology, office gynecology and women’s health, neurology, geriatrics, clinical nutrition, and reading the medical literature. The course will utilize formal lectures, hands-on workshops, case discussions, an audience response system, and questions and answers. A detailed syllabus will be provided for all participants.

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:

• Implement new guidelines in office-based preventive medicine including cancer screening and management of cardiac risk factors;
• Develop strategies to care for common office problems including hypertension, lipid disorders, diabetes, coronary heart disease, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, Parkinson’s Disease, sleep disorders, and sexually transmitted infections.
• Manage common problems in women’s health including osteoporosis, contraception, and menopause;
• Diagnose and treat common skin disorders, skin infections, and skin cancer;
• Manage common problems in psychiatry including depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and somatoform disorders;
• Manage common problems in geriatrics;
• Counsel patients to improve eating habits, lose weight, and increase physical activity;
• Perform an effective problem-focused history and physical examination for evaluation and treatment of dermatologic complaints;
• Perform common office procedures in dermatology and office gynecology;
• Develop best practices in patient communication;
• Critically evaluate the medical literature and apply it to clinical practice
• Increase quality and decrease costs in medical practice