Taught Live Online by Harvard Medical School’s Leading Clinical Faculty

Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.

OVERVIEW

Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine provides comprehensive reviews of the most important recent advances impacting primary care medicine and guidance to incorporate these changes into practice for state-of-the-art care. Education is practical and results-focused, structured to help you optimize your approach to the wide array of conditions seen in primary care practice.

Our lectures and workshops are designed to provide practical, case-based reviews of physical exam skills, diagnostic techniques, and the latest in disease management. All sessions are taught by nationally and internationally recognized leaders in their respective fields of medicine, and include time for audience Q&A. This year, we are asking specialist speakers to focus on the key takeaways they recommend for busy PCPs.

2024 Updates and Skills Development

This year’s lectures and workshops are fully updated with a focus on the most important clinical challenges affecting the practice of primary care medicine in 2024. Highlights are summarized below.

Optimizing Your Approach to Challenging Conditions

• Treating obesity: new medications, lifestyle medicine interventions, surgery
• Chronic kidney disease management and prevention of complications
• Providing equitable care and preventing implicit bias in your practice
• Optimal chronic pain management: opioids and non-opioids
• Updated approaches to hypertension and lipid care
• Practical pointers for treating diabetes, including the newest medications
• Congestive heart failure, coronary artery disease, and atrial fibrillation
• COVID-19 updates for primary care practice
• Menopause management and treatment of osteoporosis
• Treating headaches
• Mental health conditions: depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and ADHD
• Stroke
• Assessing and treating alcohol and opiate addictions
• Sleep disorders: insomnia and sleep apnea
• Pre-op cardiac and pulmonary consultation
• “Can’t-miss” diagnoses

New Treatment Options and Guidelines

• Breakthrough anti-obesity drugs
• New diabetes medications and their impact on kidney and cardiovascular disease
• Using the direct anticoagulants
• The latest COPD guidelines
• Buprenorphine (without the waiver)
• New updates for NAFLD and hepatitis C
• Top primary care articles
• Updates in urology
• Antibiotics in office practice
• Update on thyroid problems
• Common eye problems
• Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses
• Motivational interviewing

Screening and Immunizations in 2024

• Update on adult immunizations including the COVID vaccines, and pointers for addressing vaccine hesitancy
• Updates on screening for breast, colorectal, lung, cervical, and prostate cancer

Practice Tips from World-Renowned Experts

• Wellness strategies for PCPs
• Current approaches to anemia
• Diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment
• Managing anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and ADHD
• Patient information handouts that are relevant to your practice, in English and Spanish

Education to Improve Your Physical Exam Skills and Use of Diagnostic Tools

• Evaluating low back pain
• Physical examination of knee pain and hip pain
• Physical examination of the hand, elbow, and shoulder
• Evaluation of peripheral neuropathy
• Dermatology updates
• Interpreting ECGs