The Comprehensive 2025 Update on Office-Based Primary Care Medicine
Taught Live Online by Harvard Medical School's Leading Clinical Faculty
Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.
OVERVIEW
Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine provides comprehensive reviews of the most important recent advances impacting primary care medicine and guidance to incorporate these changes into practice for state-of-the-art care. Education is practical and results-focused, structured to help you optimize your approach to the wide array of conditions seen in primary care practice.
Our lectures and workshops are designed to provide practical, case-based reviews of physical exam skills, diagnostic techniques, and the latest in disease management. All sessions are taught by nationally and internationally recognized leaders in their respective fields of medicine, and include time for audience Q&A. This year, we are asking specialist speakers to focus on the key takeaways they recommend for busy PCPs.
2025 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 2025. Highlights are summarized below.
Optimizing Your Approach to Challenging Conditions
- Treating obesity: new medications and lifestyle medicine interventions
- Chronic kidney disease management and prevention of complications
- Providing equitable care and responding to microaggressions 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
- Updates on respiratory infections, including COVID-19
- 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)
- MASLD (formerly 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
Screening and Immunizations in 2025
- Update on adult immunizations, including new pneumonia vaccines, the RSV vaccine, and updates to COVID vaccines
- Updates on screening for breast, colorectal, lung, cervical, and prostate cancer
Practice Tips from World-Renowned Experts
- Optimal time-management strategies from experienced 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
- Practical tips for billing accurately and working with health insurance companies
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
- Optimal use of cardiac imaging
Optimized for Remote Education
The 2025 program has been enhanced for distance learning:
- All education will be live streamed.
- Live streamed sessions include live online chat, where participants can pose their specific questions to faculty.
- Many speakers will also respond in writing to remaining chat questions immediately following their talks. This bonus Q&A session will be included in the course archive as a reference.
- All sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing, at their convenience, via a course archive. Access to recorded sessions will begin the day after a session’s live broadcast and will continue for 6 months after the end of the course.
- All live streaming sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and other relevant credits. (Note: Evaluations must be completed within 30 days in order to receive CME credit.)
Practice-Changing Education
Participants consistently report that this program has inspired and improved their practice of medicine:
“Where do I begin? To be honest, in my 18 years of practice, this is by far the best, most thorough, and comprehensive Primary Care CME conference I have attended! Complex topics broken down into practical lectures w/ pearls of wisdom. Chef's kiss!”
“The lecturers were uniformly excellent. I felt like it hit topics that were ALL important in my day-to-day practice.”
"During the course, I messaged a patient's family asking to speak with him about management of his CHF. I plan on doing the same with another patient about his diabetic peripheral neuropathy after assessing his renal function, as he is s/p transplant. I have several other patients whose conditions will be managed differently as a result of this course. I am so grateful. I am instantly a better practitioner of medicine."
"There are so many changes inspired by this course: changes in my antibiotic Rx choices, new anticoagulants, updates in my hep C management, updates in STI / UTI management, changes in my workup and referrals for neuro and rheumatology….I could go on and on."
"This has raised my expectations of what a CME activity should be! I cannot see myself attending any other conference going forward."
"The emphasis on equity was very enlightening."