Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.OVERVIEWOffice 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 various 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
All times listed below are Eastern Daylight Time.
Welcome
David W. Bates, MD, MSc, Jane S. Sillman, MD, Cristina Alexander, MD, and Bevin E. Kenney, MD
Antibiotics in Office Practice
Anticoagulation
Rachel Rosovsky, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Workshops A1 – A4
Alcohol Use Disorder
Claudia Rodriguez, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Advanced Diabetes Cases
Marie McDonnell, MD
PrEP and HIV for the PCP
Ellen Nagami, MD
Adolescent Medicine
Joshua Borus, MD
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
Workshops B1 – B4
Lifestyle Medicine
Edward Phillips, MD
Intimate Partner Violence
Eve Rittenberg, MD and Jackie Savage-Borne, LICSW
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Evaluation of Shoulder Pain
Thomas J. Gill IV, MD
Common Urology Cases
Martin Kathrins, MD
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
CKD Part 1: Diagnosis and Preventing Progression
Outpatient COVID Management
Paul Sax, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
CKD Part 2: Managing Complications
Workshops C1 – C4
Evaluation of Peripheral Neuropathy
Michael P. Bowley, MD, PhD
End-of-Life Discussions and Advanced Care Directives
Allyson Goldberg, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management and End-of-Life Care credit in Massachusetts
Thyroid Disease
Juan Carl Pallais, MD, MPH
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Molly Perencevich, MD
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
Workshops D1 – D4
Common GYN Problems in Primary Care
Bevin E. Kenney, MD
Common Hand and Elbow Problems
Simon G. Talbot, MD
Office ENT Problems
Stacey Gray, MD and Dunia Abdul-Aziz, MD
Motivational Interviewing
Joji Suzuki, MD
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
Self-Paced Study of Previous Day’s Session/Workshop Recordings
View recordings of Monday’s live streamed presentations and workshops in the online course library for self-paced learning or review.
Breast Cancer Screening
Lydia Pace, MD, MPH
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Breaktime Session: Weaving Mindfulness Practice into Your Daily Practice of Medicine to Enhance Your Personal Well-Being
This special session is not eligible for CME credit.
Top Primary Care Articles
Cervical Cancer Screening
Cristina B. Alexander, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Acute Dizziness and Vertigo
Workshops E1 – E4
Hip Pain
Michael Beasley, MD
Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Illnesses
Daniel A. Solomon, MD
Bariatric Surgery and Procedures
Malcolm Robinson MD
GERD and Peptic Ulcer Disease
Navin Kumar, MD
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
Workshops F1 – F4
Foot and Ankle Pain
Jeremy Smith, MD
Acid-Base and Electrolyte Disorders
Brad Denker, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Buprenorphine
Claudia P. Rodriguez, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit and Opioid Education and Pain Management Training in Massachusetts
Advanced Dermatology
Sotonye Imadojemu, MD
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
Self-Paced Study of Previous Days’ Session/Workshop Recordings
View recordings of Monday’s and Tuesday’s live streamed presentations and workshops in the online course library for self-paced learning or review.
Keynote: Wellness for PCPs
Headaches
Angeliki Vgontzas, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Colon Cancer Screening
Robert C. Lowe, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Approach to Chronic Pain Management with Opioids
James Morrill, MD, PhD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit and Opioid Education and Pain Management Training in Massachusetts
Workshops G1 – G4
Primary Care Applications of Artificial Intelligence
David W. Bates, MD, MSc
Evaluation of Knee Pain
Antonia Chen, MD
Female Urinary Incontinence
Milena Weinstein, MD
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
Workshops H1 – H4
The Science and Practice of Healthy Eating
Kathy McManus, MS, RD, LDN
Clinical Care for Transgender and Gender-Diverse Patients
Ole-Petter Hamnvik, MB ChB
Functional Assessment of the Geriatric Patient
Laura N. Frain, MD, MPH
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Menopause
Tara K. Iyer, MD, NCMP
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
Self-Paced Study of Previous Days’ Session/Workshop Recordings
“Can’t-Miss” Primary Care Cases
Asthma
Nancy E. Lange-Vaidya, MD, MPH
Update on Adult Immunizations
Breaktime Session: Reframing Our Thinking: The Art of Making Your Workday a Better Day
This special session is not eligible for CME credit.
Treatment of Neuropathic Pain
Paragi Rana, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit and Opioid Education and Pain Management Training in Massachusetts
Current Approaches to Anemia
Update on NAFLD and Hepatitis C
Anna E. Rutherford, MD, MPH
Workshops I1 – I4
Insomnia Treatment
Suzanne Bertisch, MD
Food and Drug Allergies
David Sloane, MD
Update on STIs
Jacob Lazarus, MD
Tobacco Cessation
Gina Kruse, MD, MPH
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
Workshops J1 – J4
Contraception
Alexandra Bachorik, MD
Bipolar Disease and ADHD
Rachel Rosales, MD
Sleep Apnea
Rohit Budhiraja, MD
Pre-operative Cardiac and Pulmonary Consultation
Adam C. Schaffer, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Note: In addition to being live streamed, all sessions and workshops will be recorded and placed in the online course library, enabling registrants to view them at their convenience. Recordings will be available for viewing the following day, and for 6 months after the conclusion of the course.
Self-Paced Study of Previous Days’ Session/Workshop Recordings
View recordings of Monday through Thursday’s live streamed presentations and workshops in the online course library for self-paced learning or review.
Prostate Cancer Screening
Marc Garnick, MD
Meets criteria for Risk Management credit in Massachusetts
Lung Cancer Screening and Pulmonary Nodules
Sam Ash, MD, MPH
Meets criteria for Risk Management in Massachusetts
Wrap-Up
Jane S. Sillman, MD and Cristina B. Alexander, MD
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