Description

+ Include: 27 videos + 2 pdfs, size: 14.4 GB

+ Target Audience: practicing internists, family practitioners, and other primary care health professionals

+ Sample video: contact me for sample video

+ Information:

The UCSF Advances in Internal Medicine online course provides an expert review of the most recent clinical advances and current controversies. Clinically active faculty emphasize topics of clinical relevance — cardiology, geriatrics, endocrinology, general internal medicine, women’s health, infectious diseases, gastroenterology, hematology and oncology, neurology, rheumatology, and pulmonary disease.

Designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, and other primary care health professionals, this internal medicine continuing medical education program will help you to:

• Better manage common medical conditions such as diabetes, osteoporosis, obstructive lung disease, and obesity
• Bring your practice in line with current evidence and updated guidelines for ischemic heart disease, vaccinations, sexually transmitted infections, contraception, and stroke prevention
• Manage problems traditionally treated by specialists and recognize indications for referral for conditions such as heart failure, cirrhosis, advanced lung disease, allergies, common neurologic diagnoses, and side effects of modern cancer therapy

Date of Original Release: September 15, 2022

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 new strategies for cancer prevention and screening, immunizations, and prevention of coronary heart disease and stroke
• Manage common and complex office problems including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, asthma, COPD, TIAs, stroke, diabetes, thyroid disorders, osteoporosis, gout, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis and STIs
• Understand the impact that COVID-19 has had on primary care practice and use best evidence to treat patients with COVID-related conditions and concerns
• Diagnose and treat common problems in women’s health including contraception, abnormal uterine bleeding, breast cancer, endometrial cancer, pelvic pain, and vaginitis
• Treat common disorders in dermatology including skin cancer, eczema, acne, hair loss, chronic urticaria, drug eruptions, skin infections, and disorders of aging skin
• Diagnose and treat common and less common disorders of the lung
• Understand the changing role that immunotherapy and other new medications are having on modern medicine
• Prevent and treat illness in patients with immunocompromising conditions
• Understand the evidence for common vitamin supplementation and other nutritional supplements
• Understand and treat obesity and use the new obesity medications
• Understand the new exercise guidelines and how to implement them
• Select the best diagnostic tests and enhance value in medical practice
• Use best evidence and optimize patient communication and shared-decision making
• 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 course is designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, and other primary care health professionals. It is also appropriate for hospitalists who wish to stay current on recent developments in internal medicine beyond the inpatient setting.

+ Topics:

1. Advances in Heart Failure.mp4

2. Updates in Electrophysiology for the Generalist.mp4

3. Advances in Coronary Artery Disease & Interventional Cardiology.mp4

4. When to Worry – Oncologic Emergencies & Complications.mp4

5. Osteoporosis Treatment – Agents, Monitoring & Managing Holidays.mp4

6. Deprescribing for Older Adults – Beyond the Obvious.mp4

7. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment – A Pandora’s Box.mp4

8. Health Policy Updates.mp4

9. Substance Use Disorders 201 – Common Practice Pitfalls & Clinical Pearls.mp4

10. Year in Review – Primary Care.mp4

11. Updates in Family Planning.mp4

12. Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation.mp4

13. Foundational Understanding & Treatment of Obesity.mp4

14. Update in Hospital Medicine.mp4

15. New Recommendations for Adult Vaccines.mp4

16. Sexually Transmitted Infections – Updates on Testing & Treatment.mp4

17. COVID-19 Treatment – An Update for Clinicians.mp4

18. Management of Cirrhosis in Primary Care.mp4

19. Updates in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.mp4

20. Updates on Diagnosis & Management of Spondyloarthritis.mp4

21. Care of the Immunocompromised Patient in the Era of COVID.mp4

22. Management of Gynecologic Symptoms in Cancer Survivors.mp4

23. Combination Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes – An Update.mp4

24. Update on Obstructive Lung Disease.mp4

25. End Stage Lung Disease & Transplantation – What the Generalist Needs to Know.mp4

26. Neurology Potpourri.mp4

27. Update on Food Allergies – You Really Are What You Eat.mp4

Questions.pdf

Syllabus.pdf