Primary Care Internal Medicine
The Comprehensive 2018 Primary Care Update
Updates, advances, and best practices to optimize patient care and clinical outcomes.
Designed for busy clinicians, this comprehensive Harvard Medical School CME program ensures that you are current with the most important clinical changes and innovations impacting primary care and prepared to integrate them into your practice. In one immersive experience, participants learn advances and improved approaches to:
- Cardiovascular disease
- Diseases of the colon
- Smoking cessation
- Obesity
- Hematologic disorders
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Asthma care
- Pain control
- Cholesterol management
- Hypertension
- Cognitive decline
- Liver disease
- Headaches of all types
- Osteoporosis
- Polyarthritis
- COPD
- Menopause management
- Anticoagulant use
- Kidney disease
- GERD
- Sleep disorders
- Depression and anxiety
All sessions are led by active clinical faculty — the top tier of clinical teachers from all of the Harvard Medical School teaching hospitals.
Physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants attending this course can choose from dozens of knowledge-enhancing and skills-building workshops to customize a learning experience ideally suited to their practice needs. Sample workshop topics include:
- Pain management
- Preoperative evaluation
- Complex diabetes
- Medical marijuana
- Suturing techniques
- Otolaryngology
- Dermatology
- Ophthalmology
- Movement disorders
- Gynecology
- Allergies
- Atrial fibrillation
- Thyroid disorders
- Prostate conditions
- Joint examination skills
- Joint injection techniques
- Incontinence management
- Travel medicine