Primary Care Internal Medicine

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Overview

This program provides a comprehensive update of the most important changes and advances impacting primary care and guidance to incorporate them into everyday clinical practice.

What distinguishes this program is its practical and state-of-the-art focus on:

• Optimizing patient care and outcomes for the wide range of conditions seen in primary care practice
• Skills advancement for examination, diagnosis, treatment and in-office procedures
• Streamlined education that quickly and effectively provides the updates that are most important to primary care practice
• State-of-the-art approaches to primary care clinical challenges (common and complex), including:
  • Hypertension: Navigating the conflicting recommendations
  • Diabetes: Treatment strategies for challenging cases
  • Cholesterol management: Setting targets and achieving goals specific to patient risk
  • Anticoagulation: Choosing the best anticoagulant for each patient
  • Disease prevention and health promotion
  • Biomodulators: Education expressly for primary care clinicians
  • Clinical examination skills: Improving your techniques
  • Opioids: Dosing, patient selection, addiction, and weaning
  • Medication interactions: Avoiding unintended interactions among medications prescribed by primary care clinicians and their consultants

• All lectures and skills development workshops are led by clinical faculty from Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital and other Harvard-affiliated hospitals. Faculty are leaders in more than 30 fields of medicine.
• The learning experience is active and personalized. In addition to interactive lectures that span all major areas of primary care, you can choose from 36 knowledge and skills advancement workshops to customize a learning experience ideally suited to your specific interests.

Guidance to Optimize Diagnosis, Treatment, and Clinical Outcomes

The 2020 program provides updates, strategies and best practices for primary care clinicians to optimize their approach to:

• Cardiovascular disease
• Cholesterol management
• Hypertension targets
• Diabetes optimization
• Cannot-miss neurology
• Depression and anxiety
• Cncussions and consequences
• Anticoagulation
• COPD
• Asthma
• Headaches
• Diseases of the colon
• Sleep disorders
• GERD
• Polyarthritis
• Chronic kidney disease
• Coverage includes updates and state-of-the-art approaches to examination, diagnosis screening and management.

Knowledge Advancement and Skills Development Workshops

You can choose from 36 workshops to tailor the program to your specific practice needs. This year’s workshops include:

• Complex diabetes
• Preoperative evaluation
• Pain management
• Concussions
• Tick-borne diseases
• Dermatology
• Otolaryngology
• Ophthalmology
• Medical marijuana
• Wellness coaching
• Pulmonary medicine
• Office gynecology
• Movement disorders
• Allergy medicine
• Solving abnormal LFTs
• Thyroid disorders
• Endocrine challenges
• Electrolyte imbalances
• Male urology
• Joint examination skills
• Psychopharmacology
• Incontinence management

Optimized for Remote Education

The 2020 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 30 days after the end of the course. 

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Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Assess the clinical value of specific diagnostic tests used in general internal medicine and specialty practices, including test sensitivity, specificity and predictive values
• Recognize the side effects and interactions among medications prescribed by primary care clinicians and their consultants
• Summarize the therapeutic potential of newly developed biomodulators and understand interactions with current therapies and newly described untoward side effects
• Discuss the expected results of therapies and summarize current treatment strategies for cardiovascular, pulmonary, neurologic/neurovascular, endocrine, ophthalmic, orthopedic, immunologic, reproductive, dermatologic, gastrointestinal, hepatic, geriatric, psychiatric, metabolic and sleep medicine conditions
• Develop a renewed understanding of how to best manage the stresses that are part of your professional commitment to patient care, continuity and access
• Integrate lifestyle messages for patient self-care into daily practice
• Identify the disease prevention and health promotion priorities of general internal medicine
• Explain the origins and value of current guidelines for the treatment of elevated cholesterol, diabetes, heart failure and osteoporosis
• Develop new and innovative skills in clinical problem-solving to achieve the best outcomes for all patients
• Innovate practice to improve personal satisfaction and office leadership
• Assess and adopt updated guidelines for the care of the most common conditions of outpatient practice: hypertension, diabetes and hypercholesterolism
• Design practical and effective approaches to behavioral health challenges including partner violence, alcohol and marijuana misuse and opioid addiction
• Describe optimal pain control, including opioid management and buprenorphine treatment
• Apply evidence-based palliative care strategies in clinical practice
• Discuss how national support for primary care practice continues to expand
• Demonstrate clinical examination skills
• Confidently recognize common orthopedic ailments of the back, shoulder, knee, foot and hand

Faculty

Massachusetts General Hospital

Raymond T. Chung, MD
Vice Chief, Gastrointestinal Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director of Hepatology and Liver Center
Medical Director, Liver Transplant Program
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Benjamin T. Davis, MD
Physician, Infectious Diseases Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Anne D. Emmerich, MD
Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Psychiatry (Part-time), Harvard Medical School

Robert P. Friday, MD, PhD
Rheumatologist, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

John D. Goodson, MD
Primary Care Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Stacey T. Gray, MD
Director, Sinus Center, Massachusetts Eye and Ear
Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

E. Kevin Heist, MD, PhD 
Director, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Daniel M. Horn, MD
Director of Population Health and Quality, Division of General Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Medical Director, Massachusetts General Physician Organization
Instructor, Harvard Medical School

Albert Hung, MD, PhD
Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School

Eric M. Isselbacher, MD
Clinical Cardiologist/Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Healthcare Transformation Lab
Co-Director, Mass General Thoracic Aortic Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Khadidjatou Kane, MD
Palliative Care Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Hamed Khalili, MD, MPH
Gastroenterologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dana H. Kotler, MD
Physiatrist and Sports Medicine Physician, Mass General Brigham
Instructor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School

Suzanne J. Koven, MD
Primary Care Physician and Writer in Residence, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Michelle M. L'Heureux, MD, FACP
Primary Care Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Gregory D. Lewis, MD
Section Head, Heart Failure, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing Laboratory
Medical Director, Cardiology ICU and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Kerri Palamara McGrath, MD
Internist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Amulya Nagarur, MD
Core Educator Faculty (CEF), Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Alicia M. Quesnel, MD
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Physician and Surgeon
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Kerry Reynolds, MD
Clinical Director, Inpatient Oncology Units, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Director, Severe Immunotherapy Complications Program
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Claudia U. Richter, MD
Surgeon, Department of Opthalmology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Instructor in Ophthalmology (Part-time), Harvard Medical School

Nancy A. Rigotti, MD,
Associate Chief, General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital
Director, Tobacco Research and Treatment Center
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Rachel P. Rosovsky, MD
Hematologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
PERT Executive Committee Member
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Douglas S. Ross, MD
Co-director, Thyroid Associates, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jan L. Shifren, MD
Director, Massachusetts General Hospital Midlife Women's Health Center
Vincent Trustees Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Kyle D. Staller, MD, MPH
Gastroenterologist/Neurogastroenterologist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

David J. R. Steele, MD
Clinical Director of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

George H. Theodore, MD
Foot, Ankle & Knee Orthopaedic Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Team Physician: Boston Red Sox; Consultant: New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, New England Revolution
Instructor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School

Emily C. Von Bargen, DO
Gynecologic Surgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery Associate Fellowship Director
Instructor in Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Deborah J. Wexler, MD
Associate Clinical Chief, Diabetes Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
Clinical Director, Mass General Diabetes Center
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

John W. Winkelman, MD, PhD
Chief, Sleep Disorders Clinical Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Carey M. York-Best, MD
Division Director, Benign Gynecology and Obstetrics, Massachusetts General Hospital
Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology

Harvard Medical School

Lou Ann Bruno-Murtha, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
Rebecca C. Burch, MD, Assistant Professor of Neurology
 
Bernard S. Chang, MD, Associate Professor of Neurology
 
Adam S. Cheifetz, MD, Professor of Medicine
 
Pieter Cohen, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
 
Christopher H. Fanta, MD, Professor of Medicine
 
Lawrence S. Friedman, MD, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Tufts University School of Medicine
 
Adam W. Gaffney, MD, Instructor in Medicine
 
Patricia A. Gibbons, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
Ellie Grossman, MD, Instructor in Medicine
 
Kevin D. Kapila, MD, Instructor in Medicine
 
Lee M. Kaplan, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine
 
Ramin Khorasani, MD, MPH, Professor of Radiology
 
Steven J. Knuesel, MD, Instructor in Medicine
 
Daniela Kroshinsky, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Dermatology
 
Donald J. Meyer, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Part-time
 
Umadevi Naidoo, MD, Instructor in Psychiatry
 
David M. Nathan, MD, Professor of Medicine
 
Walter J. O'Donnell, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
J. Carl Pallais, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
Richard J. Pels, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
Edward M. Phillips, MD, Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
 
Jorge Plutzky, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
 
Jennifer E. Potter, MD, Professor of Medicine
 
Arun J. Ramappa, MD, Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
 
Alison Rapoport, MD, Instructor in Medicine
 
Heidi Rayala, MD, PhD, Instructor in Surgery
 
Shiv Sehra, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
David Shein, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
Jane S. Sillman, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
C. Christopher Smith, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
 
Nadine M. Tung, MD, Professor of Medicine
 
Lisa B. Weissmann, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
 
Jeffrey H. William, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Guest Faculty

Andrew E. Budson, MD, Professor of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine; Chief, Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, and Associate Chief of Staff for Education, VA Boston Healthcare System; Associate Director and Education Core Leader, Boston University Alzheimer’s Disease Center
 
James A. MacLean, MD, Chief of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Asthma and Allergy Affiliates, North Shore Medical Center, Salem, Massachusetts
 
Betsy Pollock, MSW, ACSW, LICSW, Director of Social Work, Mount Auburn Cambridge Independent Practice Association
 
Susannah G. Rowe, MD, MPH, FACS, Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Boston University School of Medicine; Associate Chief Medical Officer for Wellness and Professional Vitality, Boston Medical Center