UCSF Advances in Internal Medicine 2022

UCSF Advances in Internal Medicine 2022

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

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

Overview:

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

Date Credits Expire: September 14, 2025

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.

 

1. Advances in Heart Failure (Video MP4 Format)

2. Updates in Electrophysiology for the Generalist (Video MP4 Format)

3. Advances in Coronary Artery Disease & Interventional Cardiology (Video MP4 Format)

4. When to Worry – Oncologic Emergencies & Complications (Video MP4 Format)

5. Osteoporosis Treatment – Agents, Monitoring & Managing Holidays (Video MP4 Format)

6. Deprescribing for Older Adults – Beyond the Obvious (Video MP4 Format)

7. Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment – A Pandora’s Box (Video MP4 Format)

8. Health Policy Updates (Video MP4 Format)

9. Substance Use Disorders 201 – Common Practice Pitfalls & Clinical Pearls (Video MP4 Format)

10. Year in Review – Primary Care (Video MP4 Format)

11. Updates in Family Planning (Video MP4 Format)

12. Preoperative Cardiac Evaluation (Video MP4 Format)

13. Foundational Understanding & Treatment of Obesity (Video MP4 Format)

14. Update in Hospital Medicine (Video MP4 Format)

15. New Recommendations for Adult Vaccines (Video MP4 Format)

16. Sexually Transmitted Infections – Updates on Testing & Treatment (Video MP4 Format)

17. COVID-19 Treatment – An Update for Clinicians (Video MP4 Format)

18. Management of Cirrhosis in Primary Care (Video MP4 Format)

19. Updates in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Video MP4 Format)

20. Updates on Diagnosis & Management of Spondyloarthritis (Video MP4 Format)

21. Care of the Immunocompromised Patient in the Era of COVID (Video MP4 Format)

22. Management of Gynecologic Symptoms in Cancer Survivors (Video MP4 Format)

23. Combination Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes – An Update (Video MP4 Format)

24. Update on Obstructive Lung Disease (Video MP4 Format)

25. End Stage Lung Disease & Transplantation – What the Generalist Needs to Know (Video MP4 Format)

26. Neurology Potpourri (Video MP4 Format)

27. Update on Food Allergies – You Really Are What You Eat (Video MP4 Format)

Questions (PDF Format)

Syllabus (PDF Format)