UCSF CME Primary Care Medicine: Update 2022 CME VIDEOS

Objectives:

The purpose of this course is to increase competence and improve clinician practice in primary care and ambulatory practice. 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.

Accreditation:

The University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 20.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This CME activity meets the requirements under California Assembly Bill 1195, continuing education and cultural and linguistic competency.

Geriatric Medicine
The approved credits shown above include 19.50 credits toward meeting the requirements under California Assembly Bill 1820, Geriatric Medicine.

Family Physicians 
The AAFP has reviewed UCSF Primary Care Medicine: Update 2022 and deemed it acceptable for up to 20.50 Live AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval is from 04/03/2022 to 04/08/2022. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses 
For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Pharmacotherapeutics CEUs for Nurses
This activity is designated for a maximum of 19.75 pharmacotherapeutic credits towards meeting the requirement for nursing pharmacology continuing education. Nurses should claim 0.1 CEUs for each contact hour of participation in designated pharmacotherapeutic continuing education.

Physician Assistants 
AAPA accepts category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AAFP, and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Pharmacists 
The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM.

Maintenance of Certification 
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 20.50 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program.  Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Course Outline:

All course times listed are Hawaii Standard Time (GMT-10).