Enhance your clinical expertise and elevate your everyday practice with this
comprehensive primary care curriculum, tailored for ambulatory and
office-based clinicians.

This course strengthens core competencies in preventive medicine, cardiovascular risk
management, chronic disease care, effective patient communication, and health equity,
with a special focus on caring for vulnerable populations.

What You’ll Gain

• Practical, case-based strategies for complex primary care patients
• Guideline-driven updates in diagnostics and pharmacologic therapy
• Interdisciplinary approaches to improve outcomes and value of care
• Focused updates beyond core medicine, including dermatology, women’s health,
  oncology, neurology, nutrition, and infectious diseases

Course Chair: Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Faculty: Distinguished UCSF faculty

Learning Objectives

Upon completion, participants will be able to:

• Implement updated preventive care guidelines, including cancer screening and immunizations
• Manage common chronic diseases such as diabetes, lipid disorders, CAD, HF, stroke, CKD, and obesity
• Apply best practices for COVID-19, influenza, RSV, and other respiratory infections
• Address common women’s health issues including menopause, osteoporosis, and cervical cancer prevention
• Diagnose and treat common dermatologic disorders and skin cancer
• Utilize new obesity medications, surgery, and lifestyle interventions
• Perform effective problem-based history, physical exams, and office procedures
• Apply evidence-based initial management of common cancers and new oncologic therapies
• Improve management of infectious diseases and common mental health disorders
• Enhance patient communication, shared decision-making, and interprofessional teamwork
• Promote equity, safety, and value in primary care practice

Intended Audience

Designed for practicing internists, family physicians, advanced practice providers
(NPs & PAs), and healthcare professionals committed to delivering high-quality primary care.

Course Topics

• Controversies in Cancer Screening 2025
• Best Practices in Immunization & New Vaccines
• Diabetes Management: 2025 Guidelines
• Chronic Kidney Disease: New Tests & Medications
• Depression, Anxiety, and Suicidality in Primary Care
• Skin Cancer and Common Dermatologic Disorders
• Heart Failure & Coronary Artery Disease Updates
• Obesity Management and New Pharmacologic Therapies
• Menopause, Osteoporosis, and Women’s Health Updates
• Stroke Prevention and Treatment
• COVID-19, Influenza, and RSV
• STIs and Common Infectious Diseases
• Cancer Therapies, Prognostication, and Molecular Diagnostics
• Urgent Care in Office Practice