Primary Care Essentials: Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Practice
- Earn up to 19.25 CME credits
Overview
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Comprehensive CME for Today's Primary Care Physician
Enhance your clinical expertise and elevate your practice with this comprehensive online CME course. Primary Care Essentials: Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Practice will help you strengthen your skills in preventive medicine, cardiovascular risk management, chronic disease care, and effective communication—all while deepening your understanding of health equity and the care of vulnerable populations.
Through expert-led lectures and case discussions, you’ll gain practical strategies for optimizing diagnostic testing, applying new medications, and collaborating across specialties and healthcare teams in the care of complex patients. Beyond common clinical challenges, you’ll explore focused updates in dermatology, women’s health, clinical nutrition, neurology, oncology, and infectious diseases.
Chaired by Dr. Robert B. Baron and featuring outstanding UCSF faculty, this continuing medical education course offers the tools and insights you need to maximize quality, safety, equity, and value.
Looking for the previous edition? UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Principles and Practices is available here. Released in 2023, it offers 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and more.
Topics / Speakers
Controversies in Cancer Screening 2025 - Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH
Best Practices in Immunization – Keeping Up with New Vaccines and New Practice Guidelines - Peter Chin-Jong, MD
Management of Diabetes Mellitus – Implementing the 2025 Guidelines - Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Chronic Kidney Disease – Integrating New Tests, New Guidelines, and New Medications - Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH
Management of Depression and Suicidality in Primary Care - Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
Sunscreens, “Spots” and Skin Cancer - Lindy P. Fox, MD
Cancer Treatment Today – Distinguishing Among Cancer Therapies and Anticipating Their Side Effects - Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd
Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections - Paul Nadler, MD
Heart Failure – New Strategies for Diagnosis and Treatment - Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH
Management of Obesity in Office Practice: How Do We Best Utilize the New Medications? - Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Current and Emerging Strategies for Osteoporosis - Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH
Advances in Prevention and Treatment of Stroke – What Every Primary Care Clinician Should Know - Kenneth A. Fox, MD
Covid-19, Flu, and RSV – Where Do We Stand with Common Respiratory Infections - Peter Chin-Hong, MD
No Longer a Death Sentence: Distinguishing Curable from Incurable Cancer and Improving Prognostication - Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd
Best Practices in Urgent Care – Managing Common Acute Disorders in Office Practice - Paul Nadler, MD
Common Dermatologic Disorders – Tips for Diagnosis and Management - Lindy P. Fox
What’s New in Management of Menopause and Peri-menopausal Symptoms? - Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH
Top 10 Infectious Disease Topics That Will Likely Change Your Practice - Peter Chin-Hong, MD
Management of Coronary Artery Disease – How Should the New Guidelines Change Our Practice? - Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH
Medications and Psychotherapy for Managing Anxiety - Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
Management of Lipid Disorders in 2025 – Integrating New Diagnostics and New Medications - Robert B. Baron, MD, MD
Novel Cancer Diagnostics – Demystifying Commonly Used Molecular and Genetic Testing in Oncology - Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd
Faculty
Course Director
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Course Faculty
(University of California, San Francisco unless indicated)
Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology/Oncology
Chief, Moffitt-Long Inpatient Oncology Consult Service
Peter Chin-Hong, MD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Disease
Associate Dean for Regional Campuses
Lindy P. Fox, MD
Professor of Dermatology
Director, Hospital Consultation Service
Director, Complex Medical Dermatology Fellowship
Kenneth Fox, MD
Chief Neurologist
Kaiser Permanente San Francisco
Paul Nadler, MD
Professor of Medicine
Medical Director
UCSF Screening and Acute Care Clinic
Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Medicine
Site Director, Medical Student Education, Psychiatry
Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Associate Chief of Medicine for Research Development
San Francisco VA Medical Center
Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH
Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Associate Medical Director
UCSF Women’s Health Primary Care Practice
Accreditation
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, the University of California, San Francisco is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Designation
UCSF designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 19.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Date of Original Release: TBD
Date Credits Expire: TBD
Learning 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 cancer prevention and screening, immunizations, and prevention of cardiovascular disease
- Develop up-to-date strategies for common office problems including lipid disorders, diabetes, coronary heart disease, heart failure, stroke, chronic kidney disease, obesity, and STI’s
- 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
- Manage common problems in women’s health including prevention of cervical cancer, menopause, and osteoporosis
- Treat common disorders in dermatology including skin cancer, eczema, acne, hair loss, chronic urticaria, drug eruptions, skin infections, and disorders of aging skin
- Understand and treat obesity and use the new obesity medications, surgery, and lifestyle interventions
- Perform an effective problem-based history, physical examination, and common procedures in dermatology and office orthopaedics
- Understand the best initial management strategies for common cancers, current uses of new cancer medications, and best practices for giving prognostic advice
- Expand diagnostic and therapeutic skills for common infectious diseases
- Understand best practices in assessment and treatment of common mental health disorders
- Use best evidence and optimize patient communication and shared-decision making
- Improve interprofessional teamwork and collaboration
- Enhance value in medical practice
- 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
Intended Audience
This activity was designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, advance practice providers, and all other health professionals interested in providing high quality primary care.
Quick Facts
a CMEinfo video productionProvider: University of California, San Francisco
Course Director:
Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Professor of Medicine
Credits: Earn a maximum of 19.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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