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Taught Live Online by Harvard Medical School’s Leading Clinical Faculty
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





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