Program Overview

Primary Care Medicine: Principles & Practice 2025

Overview

Primary Care is the essential core of modern medical practice. Increasingly difficult management decisions must be made in diverse ambulatory environments and via telemedicine. Primary care clinicians continue to do it all: preventive medicine, reduction of cardiovascular risk factors, acute clinical problems, chronic disease management, women's health, behavioral medicine, geriatrics, and much more. Effective practice requires understanding the optimal use of new diagnostic tests and new medications. Health disparities and the care of vulnerable patients are a central part of our daily practice as we try to maximize quality, safety, equity, and value. Close collaboration with other specialists, inpatient colleagues, and diverse teams of health professionals is essential for the care of our complex patients.

Target Audience

This course, chaired by Dr. Robert B. Baron and taught by UCSF’s best teachers, is designed for practicing internists, family practitioners, advance practice providers, and all other health professionals interested in providing high-quality primary care.

Onsite and Remote Learning Options

The course will be offered as a live conference. Registrants have the option to attend in person or to tune in remotely via live stream during programming hours (Pacific Time). Included in your registration fee is access to the course recordings on demand after the conference and for 30 days after the course.

Registration Fees

• $995 Physicians
• $855 Advance Practice Providers, Other Health Professionals, and Health Professionals in Training

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations received in writing before October 21, 2025, will be refunded, less a $75 administrative fee. No refunds will be made on cancellations received after that date.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, the University of California, San Francisco is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

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 screening, immunizations, prevention of coronary heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, and STIs;
• Manage common office problems including diabetes, coronary heart disease, chronic kidney disease, asthma, COPD, stroke, TIAs, osteoporosis, liver disease, obesity, LUTS, anxiety and depression, sleep disorders, dementia, allergies, orthopedic complaints, and chronic pain;
• Manage common specialty problems in cardiology, endocrinology, infectious disease, pulmonary medicine, hepatology, nephrology, oncology, geriatrics, neurology, urology, dermatology, gynecology, orthopedics, otolaryngology, allergy and immunology, substance use, bariatrics, and public health;
• Diagnose and treat common problems in women's health including cancer prevention, family planning, genitourinary symptoms, and osteoporosis;
• Understand the impact that COVID-19 has had on primary care practice and use best practices to treat patients with COVID, influenza, RSV, and other respiratory infections;
• Select the best diagnostic tests and enhance value in medical practice;
• Integrate new medications into clinical practice;
• Use best evidence and optimize patient communication and shared-decision making;
• Improve skills in interprofessional collaboration and teamwork;
• 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.

Course Outline

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

• 7:30 am Course Registration and Continental Breakfast
• 8:20 Welcome
• 8:30 Controversies in Cancer Screening in 2025
• 9:10 Discussion
• 9:20 Obesity in Primary Care: Optimizing the New Treatment Options
• 10:00 Discussion
• 10:10 Break
• 10:30 Best Practices in the Care of Older Adults
• 11:10 Discussion
• 11:20 Hot, Wet, and Dry: Gynecologic Conditions in Older Women
• 12:00 pm Discussion
• 12:10 Lunch on Your Own
• 1:30 Current Strategies in Adult Vaccination: Preventing Infections in a Changing Environment
• 2:10 Discussion
• 2:20 Diagnosis and Treatment of Osteoporosis: What’s New and Controversial in 2025?
• 3:00 Discussion
• 3:10 Break
• 3:30 Hot Topics in Gastroenterology for Primary Care Clinicians
• 4:10 Discussion
• 4:20 Sexually Transmitted Infections in 2025: New Guidelines and Best Practices
• 5:00 Discussion
• 5:10 pm Adjourn

Thursday, October 23, 2025

• 7:30 am Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 Current Challenges in Management of Asthma and COPD
• 9:10 Discussion
• 9:20 Chronic Kidney Disease: Integrating New Tests, New Guidelines, and New Medications
• 10:00 Discussion
• 10:10 Break
• 10:30 Type 2 Diabetes: Integrating New Medications and the 2025 Treatment Algorithm
• 11:10 Discussion
• 11:20 Optimizing Heart Failure Management in 2025
• 12:00 pm Discussion
• 12:10 Lunch on Your Own
• 1:30 New Insights for Better Sleep in 2025: Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Restless Leg, Narcolepsy, and Insomnia
• 2:10 Discussion
• 2:20 Quality Family Planning in Primary Care
• 3:00 Discussion
• 3:10 Break
• 3:30 Best Practices in Treating Patients with Substance Use Disorder
• 4:10 Discussion
• 4:20 Management of Common Injuries of the Hip and Lumbar Spine
• 5:10 pm Adjourn

Friday, October 24, 2025

• 7:30 am Continental Breakfast
• 8:30 Updates in Male Genitourinary Disease
• 9:10 Discussion
• 9:20 Modern Management of Arial Fibrillation
• 10:00 Discussion
• 10:10 Break
• 10:30 Clinical Dilemmas in Psychiatry
• 11:20 Health Care Disparities in 2025: What Can We do to Improve Clinical Outcomes for All?
• 12:00 pm Discussion
• 12:10 Lunch on Your Own
• 1:30 Managing Dementia in 2025: Current Challenges and Future Opportunities
• 2:10 Discussion
• 2:20 Dizziness Made Easy!
• 3:00 Discussion
• 3:10 Break
• 3:30 Management of Common Dermatologic Disorders
• 4:10 Discussion
• 4:20 Management of Common Respiratory Infections in Primary Care
• 5:00 Discussion
• 5:10 pm Adjourn

Course Chair

• Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
  • Professor of Medicine
  • University of California, San Francisco

Faculty

• Scott R. Bauer, MD, MS
  • Associate Professor of Medicine and Urology
• Max Brondfield, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
• David Claman, MD
  • Professor of Medicine
  • Director, UCSF Sleep Disorders Center
• Stephanie E. Cohen, MD, MPH
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Director, STI/HIV Prevention Branch, SF Department of Public Health
• Jonathan Davis, MD
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Director, Heart Failure Program at Zuckerberg General Hospital
• Alicia Fernandez, MD
  • Professor of Medicine
  • Associate Dean of Population Health and Health Equity
  • Founding Director, UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence
• Lindy P. Fox, MD
  • Professor of Dermatology
  • Director, Hospital Consultation Service
  • Director, Complex Medical Dermatology Fellowship
• Rebecca Jackson, MD
  • Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
• Sarah Kim, MD
  • Professor of Medicine
  • Director, ZSFG Adult Diabetes Clinic and Adult Weight Management Clinic
  • Director, UCSF Diabetes Teaching Center
• Paul Nadler, MD
  • Professor of Medicine
  • Medical Director, UCSF Screening and Acute Care Clinic
• Cara Pellegrini, MD
  • Professor of Medicine
  • Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology at the San Francisco VA
• Gil Rabinovici, MD
  • Professor of Neurology
  • Edward Fein and Pearl Landrith Distinguished Professorship in Memory and Aging
• Stephanie E. Rogers, MD, MS, MPH
  • Associate Professor of Medicine
  • Associate Chief of Geriatrics Clinical Programs
  • Medical Director, UCSF Age-Friendly Health System
• Jessica Ristau, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
  • Professor of Psychiatry
  • Psychiatry Site Director for Medical Student Education
• Lekshmi Santhosh, M.D., M.A.Ed.
  • Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
  • DOM Associate Chair for Mentorship & People Development
  • Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
  • Gold-Headed Cane Endowed Education Chair in Internal Medicine
• Carlin Senter, MD
  • Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery and Medicine
  • Director, Primary Care Sports Medicine Service
• Jeffrey Sharon, MD
  • Associate Professor, Otolaryngology
  • Director, Balance and Falls Center
• Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH
  • Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
  • Associate Chief of Medicine for Research Development
  • San Francisco VA Medical Center
• Anne Schafer, MD
  • Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF
  • Chief of Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • San Francisco VA Health Care System
• Eleanor Bimla Schwarz, MD, MS
  • Professor of Medicine
  • Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
  • Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
• Diana Thiara, MD
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine
  • Director, UCSF Adult Weight Management Program
• Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH
  • Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
  • Associate Medical Director, UCSF Women’s Health Primary Care Practice
• Lisa Winston, MD
  • Professor of Medicine
  • Hospital Epidemiologist, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

Travel & Lodging

• Marines’ Memorial Club & Hotel
  • 609 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
• Hotel Phone:
• Reservations:
• Rates: Standard $239 / Deluxe $269
• Cutoff Date: September 26, 2025

Accreditation Statement

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 20.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.