Primary Care Internal Medicine - LIVE STREAMING

A Comprehensive Update for State-of-the-Art Primary Care
Updates Are Provided Across All Major Areas of Primary Care Practice

Held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.

OVERVIEW
This program provides a comprehensive update of the most important changes and advances impacting primary care practice. It is led by Harvard Medical School’s leading clinical faculty" representing more than 30 fields of medicine.
Participants can rely on this program for education and skills advancement workshops covering:
• Comprehensive updates for diagnosis and treatment
• State-of-the-art approaches to the most frequent clinical challenges
• Guidance for care of the patient with complex medical needs
• Advanced techniques for in-office procedures
• Examination skills
• Disease prevention: screening and vaccination updates
• Strategies to account for social, racial, sex and gender, and cultural differences to ensure optimized care for all patients

- All updates are coupled with guidance to incorporate them into everyday clinical practice.

2024 Highlights
State-of-the-Art Approaches to Frequent Clinical Challenges
• Obesity: prescribing GLP-1 agonists and more
• Hypertension: new targets, new treatment options
• Women's health: menopausal care
• Hypercholesterolemia: how low to go (and how to get there)
• Diabetes: new paradigms of care
• Cancer screening recommendations
• Contraception: current state of the art
• LGBTQ health: special considerations
• Cardiovascular disease: setting and achieving goals specific to patient risk
• Smoking cessation
• Depression and anxiety: practical stepwise approaches for primary care
• Dyspepsia and dysphagia
• Artificial intelligence: applications in primary care
• Gender-affirming care; compassionate care in gender transitioning
• Osteoporosis and bone health: reducing fracture risk
• Arthritis: effective management of articular inflammation
• Headaches: established and innovative options
• Anemia: straightforward approaches for abnormal results
• Asthma: SMART (single maintenance and reliever therapy) and more
• Thyroid disorders

Guidance for the Care of Patients with Complex Medical Needs
• Heart failure: improving patient functional capacity with combined therapies
• Opioids: dosing, patient selection, addiction, and weaning
• Opioid use disorder: what you need to know about medication-assisted treatment
• Biomodulators: must-know information for primary care clinicians
• Liver diseases: treatment strategies that preserve function
• Neurology: cannot-miss presentations in primary care
• Pulmonology: management of inflammatory conditions
• Anticoagulation: expanding the use of the new targeted agents
• Kidney health: improved strategies for nephron protection
• Atrial fibrillation: pharmacologic and ablation strategies
• Medication interactions: avoiding unintended adverse outcomes
• Our aging demographic: supporting independence and autonomy
• Alcohol use disorder: diverse approaches that expand your repertoire of options
• Cognitive decline: what can we do based on the evidence?
• Motivational interviewing for weight loss
• Female sexual health
• Peripheral vascular disease

Knowledge Advancement and Skills Development Workshops
You can choose from 36 live streaming workshops, or attend them all, to tailor the program to your specific practice needs. These workshops will all be recorded, allowing you to (re)view them online, at your convenience, for up to 11 months following the conclusion of this program.
• Challenges and complications of medical marijuana
• Advanced diabetes management
• Opioid use disorder
• Best practices in the care of LGBTQ+ patients
• Endocrinology case studies
• Fluid and electrolyte abnormalities
• Unraveling the mysteries of abnormal LFTs
• Lower back pain
• Therapeutic approaches to the foot and ankle
• Therapeutic approaches to the knee
• Exploring the risks of supplements your patients are taking (and not telling you)
• Biomodulators: what’s the gab about mAbs (monoclonal antibodies)
• Sexual health: menopause 101
• GYN oncology
• Female urinary incontinence and sexual pain
• Immunotherapy: things to know about changing paradigms in oncology care
• Prostate problems and challenges
• Risk assessment of breast and ovarian cancer
• Managing alcohol use disorder
• Urinary incontinence in women
• Common otolaryngology issues in primary care
• Tick-borne diseases
• Peripheral vascular disease
• Management of adult attention deficit disorder
• Common ophthalmology issues in primary care
• Movement disorders
• Concussion management: on the field and in the office
• Mild neurocognitive disorder: decisions at the gateway to dementia
• Supporting the independence and autonomy of older adults
• Trauma-informed care
• Biases and behaviors in clinical practice
• Palliative and hospice care
• Gender affirming care, gender transitioning
• Contraception update 2024
• Updates in dermatology: common rashes
• Challenges in opioid prescribing for chronic non-cancer pain

Women's Health
• Risk assessment of breast and ovarian cancer
• Menopause: proactive patient care
• Women’s heart health: addressing the number 1 killer of women in the U.S.
• Female incontinence: basic approaches and new options
• Primary care of the pregnant patient
• The fourth trimester: care after delivery for the PCP
• Treating sexual pain in women

Practical, Comprehensive Education
Optimized for Remote Learning
The 2024 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to live-streamed content, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing starting 1 day after the session’s live broadcast and can be accessed for 11 months after the course. Questions in the chat not covered live by the speakers will be responded to either immediately afterwards or within a month; this bonus Q&A will be posted in the course archives for participants to review.