UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles & Practice 2025

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 new strategies for cancer screening, immunizations, prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and STIs;
• Manage common office problems including diabetes, coronary heart disease, chronic kidney disease, asthma, COPD, stroke, TIAs, osteoporosis, liver disease, obesity, LUTS, anxiety and depression, sleep disorders, dementia, allergies, orthopedic complaints, and chronic pain;
• Manage common specialty problems in cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine, hepatology, nephrology, oncology, geriatrics, neurology, urology, dermatology, gynecology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, allergy and immunology, substance use, bariatrics and public health;
• Diagnose and treat common problems in women’s health including cancer prevention, family planning, genitourinary symptoms, and osteoporosis;
• 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;
• Select the best diagnostic tests and enhance value in medical practice;
• Integrate new medications into clinical practice;
• Use best evidence and optimize patient communication and shared-decision making;
• Improve skills in interprofessional collaboration and teamwork;
• 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

Course Outline

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2025

7:30 am Course Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:20 Welcome
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS

8:30. RxG Controversies in Cancer Screening in 2025
Judith M.E. Walsh, MD, MPH

9:10 Discussion

9:20 RxG Obesity in Primary Care: Optimizing the New Treatment Options
Diana Thiara, MD

10:00 Discussion

10:10 Break

10:30 RxG Best Practices in the Care of Older Adults
Stephanie E. Rogers, MD

11:10 Discussion

11:20 RxG Hot, Wet, and Dry: Gynecologic Conditions in Older Women
Rebecca Jackson, MD

12:00 pm Discussion

12:10 Lunch on Your Own

1:30 RxG Current Strategies in Adult Vaccination: Preventing Infections in a Changing Environment
Lisa Winston, MD

2:10 Discussion

2:20 RxG Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis: What’s New and Controversial in 2025?
Anne Schafer, MD

3:00 Discussion

3:10 Break

3:30 RxG Hot Topics in Gastroenterology for Primary Care Clinicians
Max Brondfield, MD

4:10 Discussion

4:20 RxG Sexually Transmitted Infections in 2025: New Guidelines and Best Practices
Stephanie E. Cohen, MD, MPH

5:00 Discussion

5:10 pm Adjourn

 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2025

7:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 RxG Current Challenges in Management of Asthma and COPD
Lekshmi Santhosh, MD, MAEd

9:10 Discussion

9:20 RxG Chronic Kidney Disease: Integrating New Tests, New Guidelines, and New Medications
Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH

10:00 Discussion

10:10 Break

10:30 RxG Type 2 Diabetes: Integrating New Medications and the 2025 Treatment Algorithm
Sarah Kim, MD

11:10 Discussion

11:20  RxG  Optimizing Heart Failure Management in 2025
Jonathan Davis, MD

12:00 pm Discussion

12:10 Lunch on Your Own

1:30  RxG  New Insights for Better Sleep in 2025: Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Restless Leg, Narcolepsy, and Insomnia
David Claman, MD

2:10 Discussion

2:20 Rx Quality Family Planning in Primary Care
Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS

3:00 Discussion

3:10 Break 

3:30 RxG Best Practices in Treating Patients with Substance Use Disorder
Jessica Ristau, MD

4:10 Discussion

4:20  RxG  Management of Common Injuries of the Hip and Lumbar Spine
Carlin Senter, MD, FACP, FAMSSM

5:10 pm Adjourn

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2025

7:30 am Continental Breakfast

8:30 RxG Updates in Male Genitourinary Disease
Scott R. Bauer, MD, ScM

9:10 Discussion

9:20 RxG Modern Management of Arial Fibrillation
Cara Pellegrini, MD

10:00 Discussion

10:10 Break

10:30 RxG Clinical Dilemmas in Psychiatry
Emma Samelson-Jones, MD

11:20 RxG Health Care Disparities in 2025:  What Can We do to Improve Clinical Outcomes for All?
Alicia Fernanadez, MD

12:00 pm Discussion

12:10 Lunch on Your Own

1:30 RxG Managing Dementia in 2025: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities
Gil Rabinovici, MD

2:10 Discussion

2:20 RxG Dizziness Made Easy!
Jeffrey Sharon, MD

3:00 Discussion

3:10 Break

3:30 RxG. Management of Common Dermatologic Disorders
Lindy P. Fox, MD

4:10 Discussion

4:20 RxG Management of Common Respiratory Infections in Primary Care
Paul Nadler, MD

5:00 Discussion

5:10 pm Adjourn

Rx – Meets Requirements for Pharmacotherapeutics CEUs for NPs/Nurses
G – Geriatric Credit