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March 30 - April 4, 2025
Waikiki Beach Marriott • Honolulu, HI
Course# MDM25M06 - Department: Medicine

Overview

Primary Care is the essential core of modern medical practice.  Increasingly difficult management decisions must be made in diverse ambulatory environments and via telemedicine.  Primary care clinicians continue to do it all: preventive medicine, reduction of cardiovascular risk factors, acute clinical problems, chronic disease management, women's health, behavioral medicine, geriatrics, neurology, dermatology, sports medicine, and much more.  Effective practice requires understanding the optimal use of new diagnostic tests and new medications. Health disparities and the care of vulnerable patients are a central part of our daily practice as we try to maximize quality, safety, equity, and value. Close collaboration with other specialists, inpatient colleagues, and diverse teams of health professionals is essential for the care of our complex patients.

This course will present a comprehensive review of new developments in outpatient medicine, controversies in primary care practice, and updates in care of patients with COVID-19 and other serious infections. The course will focus on the skills and strategies needed in day-to-day office practice. The curriculum will feature in-depth discussion of challenging cases in preventive medicine, common problems in ambulatory care, and a broad selection of acute and chronic illnesses. This course will also be an excellent opportunity to update office-based skills in dermatology, neurology, women’s health, infectious disease, clinical oncology, endocrinology, clinical nutrition, and sports medicine.  The course will utilize formal lectures, case discussions, an audience response system, questions and answers, a detailed syllabus, and on-demand access to course recordings. Ample time will be reserved for interprofessional discussion of challenging cases.  Remote learning opportunities will also be available.

The course is presented by the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine of the Department of Medicine and is sponsored by the Office of Continuing Medical Education, University of California, San Francisco.

Target Audience
This course, chaired by Dr. Robert B. Baron, is taught by many of UCSF’s best teachers and an outstanding guest faculty. The course is designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, advance practice providers, and all other health professionals interested in providing high quality primary care.

Onsite and Remote Learning Options:
The course sessions will take place at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Hotel on Oahu.  Live Stream and Onsite registrants will receive instructions along with the digital syllabus a week before the conference.  Included in your registration fee is access to the course recordings on demand after the conference and for 30 days after the course. You must tune in to live conference (in person or remotely) to claim CME.  All course times listed are Hawaii Standard Time (GMT-10).

Objectives

The purpose of this course is to increase competence and improve clinician practice in primary care and ambulatory practice. We specifically anticipate improvements in skills and strategies to:

• Implement new guidelines in office-based preventive medicine including cancer prevention and screening, immunizations, and prevention of cardiovascular disease;
• Manage common and complex office problems including hyperlipidemia, diabetes, back pain, headaches, dementia, TIAs, respiratory infections, STI’s, and common cancers;
• Understand the impact that COVID-19 has had on primary care practice and use best practices to treat patients with COVID, influenza, RSV and other respiratory infections;
• Treat common disorders in dermatology including skin cancer, eczema, acne, hair loss, chronic urticaria, drug eruptions, skin infections, and disorders of aging skin;
• Understand and treat obesity and use the new obesity medications, surgery, and lifestyle interventions;
• Manage common concerns in women’s health including screening for breast, cervical and endometrial cancer and management of breast lumps, incontinence, vaginal bleeding, and menopause;
• Use best clinical practices for management of acute and chronic pain;
• Increase expertise in evaluating and treating common injuries and related conditions of the shoulders, hips, and knees;
• Develop best practices in giving prognostic advice for common cancers;
• Select the best current and future diagnostic tests and best new medications, including new cancer therapies;
• Use best evidence and optimize patient communication and shared-decision making;
• Improve interprofessional teamwork and collaboration;
• Enhance value in medical practice;
• Become a better clinician and advocate with a deeper understanding of health disparities and the central role of primary care clinicians in providing equitable, patient-centered care.

Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine

Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Chief, Moffitt-Long Inpatient Oncology Consult Service

Henry Crevensten, MD
Professor of Medicine
Deputy Chief of Primary Care at the San Francisco VA

Peter Chin-Hong, MD
Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease
Associate Dean for Regional Campuses

John W. Engstrom, MD
Betty Anker Fife Distinguished Professor of Neurology
Director, Neurology Residency Program
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs

Rebecca Jackson, MD
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Chief, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Carlin Senter, MD
Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Medicine
Director of Primary Care Sports Medicine Service

Guest Faculty

Toby A. Maurer, MD
Professor of Dermatology
Indiana University School of Medicine

Marriott Resort Waikiki Beach
2552 Kalākaua Avenue, Honolulu HI 96815
Hotel Phone: 808-922-6611
 
Room Rates:
$299  City View
$329  Partial Ocean View (Paoakalani Tower)
$409  Ocean View (Kealohilani Tower)
A discounted daily resort fee of $25 per day will apply.
 
Please contact the hotel directly to book your room:
808-922-6611, or toll free at 800-367-5370

Online Reservations Are Also Available:

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(Rates will be adjusted to the group rate and $25 resort fee upon booking)