Optimize Patient Care
Review updates, advances & best practices in all areas of primary care.
Among the Highest-Rate CME
Program is among the highest-rated CME courses at Harvard Medical School
24.75 hours of Continuing Education
Earn up to 24.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
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Featuring Best Practices and Effective Preventive Medicine Strategies to Improve Your Practice
A major challenge we face today as primary care clinicians is staying current with the rapid advances in prevention. Prevention is a major component of effective primary care practice and one of the unique strengths that we must possess. Most existing CME courses focus on prevention in one or several limited spheres. In this course, we will focus on screening and prevention and teach you innovative and novel strategies across multiple disciplines. Sessions include prevention of cancer, heart disease, infectious diseases, obesity, diabetes, and risk management issues in primary care, plus hot-off-the-press emerging topics will be addressed to ensure you are up to date with the latest information during the ongoing COVID pandemic. We will address:
- Outpatient treatment of COVID-19 and management of COVID long-haulers
- Vaccine angst
- Racial inequalities in medicine
- Genetic causes of cancer: which patients should be screened
- Patient management in the face of alcohol or opioid use
- Screening and treatment of depression
- Nutrition counseling and healthy-lifestyle coaching to prevent chronic illnesses
- Preventative therapies for migraine
- Evolving vaccine recommendations, including COVID-19
- Lifestyle changes to prevent type 2 diabetes, cardiac disease, hypertension and hyperlipidemia
- Strategies for smoking cessation
- Recommendations for preventing dementia and osteoporosis
- Reducing medical errors
- Menopause and hormone replacement therapy
Event Pricing
Register on/before Feb 25, 2022
(SAVE $100)
$750
- Fees are shown in USD
- All live-stream sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and ABIM MOC points, as well as other relevant credits
- Video recordings of the presentations will be available on demand until June 9, 2022.
Register After Feb 25, 2022
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$850
- Fees are shown in USD
- All live-stream sessions are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and ABIM MOC points, as well as other relevant credits
- Video recordings of the presentations will be available on demand until June 9, 2022.
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Registrations for Harvard Medical School CME programs are made via our secure online registration system. To register for this course, please click on the “register” link above
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At the end of the registration process, a $10 non-refundable processing fee will be added to your registration, and you will have the choice of paying by check, credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or American Express), or wire transfer in USD
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Course Directors
Gerald W. Smetana, MD, MACP
Course Director
Professor of Medicine | Harvard Medical School
Howard Libman, MD, FACP
Course Director
Professor of Medicine, Emeritus | Harvard Medical School
Maura Moran Brain, DNP, CDCES
Course Director
Certified Adult & Geriatric NP
Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Certified Diabetes Care & Education Specialist | Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Frequently Asked Questions
Pricing
The live-stream sessions are priced at $699. The optional extended viewing license is $200.
5% discount applied during registration by using discount code SAVE5.
*Pricing in USD
Where is the course located?
This course is presented as a live-streaming program.
Which sessions are included in the course?
Thursday, April 7, 2022 (Day 1)
| 7:15 AM | 7:30 AM | Introduction and Welcome |
| Principles of Screening and Prevention | ||
| 7:30 AM | 8:10 AM | Prevention of Dementia* Daniel Press, MD |
| 8:10 AM | 8:50 AM | Screening and Treatment of Depression Michael W. Kahn, MD |
| 8:50 AM | 9:10 AM | Break and Optional Guided Meditation✻ |
| 9:10 AM | 9:50 AM | Communication and Resolution of Medical Error Melinda Van Niel, MBA, CPHRM |
| 9:50 AM | 10:30 AM | Evidence-Based Approach to Prevention* Quyen Ngo-Metzger, MD, MPH |
| 10:30 AM | 10:40 AM | Break |
| 10:40 AM | 11:40 AM | KEYNOTE – The Two Most Important Days: Reflections on Lasting Happiness and Living with Purpose† Q&A Sanjiv Chopra, MD, MACP, FRCP (London) |
| Cancer | ||
| 11:40 AM | 12:20 AM | Prostate Cancer – Screening and Beyond: Genetics, Prevention and Therapy*Marc B. Garnick, MD |
| 12:20 PM | 1:10 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:10 PM | 1:50 PM | Prevention of Colon Cancer: Does Anything Besides Aspirin Decrease the Risk of Colon Cancer?* Helen M. Shields, MD, FACP |
| 1:50 PM | 2:30 PM | Screening for Skin Cancer* Rachel V. Reynolds, MD |
| 2:30 PM | 2:50 PM | Break and Optional Rejuvenation Exercises✻ |
| 2:50 PM | 3:30 PM | Breast Cancer Prevention and Screening: What We Know, What We Do and Does it Make Sense?* Nadine M. Tung, MD |
| 3:30 PM | 4:10 PM | Which Patients Should be Screened for Genetic Causes of Cancer?* Nadine M. Tung, MD |
| 4:10 PM | 4:20 PM | Break |
| 4:20 PM | 5:00 PM | Cervical Cancer Prevention: Is the Pap Smear Obsolete? Amy R. Weinstein, MD, MPH |
| 5:00 PM | 5:30 PM | Ask-the-Expert Panel |
Friday, April 8, 2021 (Day 2)
| Healthy Lifestyles | ||
| 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Exercise Prescription: Promoting Physical Activity in You and Your Patients* Edward M. Phillips, MD |
| 8:30 AM | 9:05 AM | Motivational Interviewing: A Proven Approach for Weight Loss* Frank J. Domino, MD |
| 9:05 AM | 9:35 AM | Lifestyle Changes to Prevent Diabetes* Martin J. Abrahamson, MD, FACP |
| 9:35 AM | 9:55 AM | Motivational Interviewing: A Proven Approach for Weight Loss* Frank J. Domino, MD |
| 9:35 AM | 9:55 AM | Break and Optional Guided Meditation✻ |
| 9:55 AM | 10:35 AM | Osteoporosis Prevention and Management* Harold N. Rosen, MD |
| Infectious Diseases | ||
| 10:35 AM | 11:20 AM | Outpatient Management of COVID-19 Infection Mary T. LaSalvia, MD, MPH |
| 11:20 AM | 11:30 AM | Break |
| 11:30 AM | 12:30 PM | KEYNOTE – The History of the COVID Pandemic† Q&A Paul E. Sax, MD |
| 12:30 PM | 1:20PM | Lunch Break |
| 1:20PM | 2:00 PM | COVID-19 Vaccines Lindsey R. Baden, MD |
| 2:00 PM | 2:40 PM | Vaccine Angst: A Paradigm for Prevention* Robin Wigmore, MD |
| 2:40 PM | 3:00 PM | Break and Optional Rejuvenation Exercises✻ |
| 3:00 PM | 3:40 PM | Screening, Prevention and Treatment of HCV: A Shifting Paradigm for Primary Care Andrew J. Hale, MD |
| 3:40 PM | 4:20 PM | HIV Prevention: The Time Has Come*† Howard Libman, MD, FACP |
| 4:20 PM | 4:40 PM | Ask-the-Expert Panel† |
| 4:40 PM | 4:50 PM | Break |
| 2:20 PM | 2:30 PM | Orthopedics:Prevention of Musculoskeletal Injuries Julie Ruane, MBA, ACNP-BC |
Saturday, April 9, 2022 (Day 3)
| Keynote Lecture | ||
| 8:00 AM | 8:30 AM | Managing Menopause Marybeth Meservey, MS, WHNP-BC |
| 8:30 AM | 9:20 AM | Preventive Therapies for Migraine† Gerald W. Smetana, MD, MACP |
| 9:20 AM | 9:40 AM | Break and Optional Guided Meditation✻ |
| 9:40 AM | 10:20 AM | Perspectives on Drug and Alcohol Misuse and Use Disorders Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH |
| 10:20 AM | 10:50 AM | Treating Tobacco Users: Strategies and Controversies* Nancy A. Rigotti, MD |
| 10:50 AM | 11:00 AM | Break |
| 11:00 AM | 12:00 PM | KEYNOTE – Racial Inequalities in Medicine† Q&A Daniele D. Olveczky, MD, MS |
| Cardiovascular Disease Prevention | ||
| 12:50 PM | 1:30 PM | New Developments in the Management of Hyperlipidemias Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH |
| 1:30 PM | 2:20 PM | Hypertension 2022: Recent Evidence that Will Change Your Practice† Gerald W. Smetana, MD, MACP |
| 2:20 PM | 2:40 PM | Break and Optional Rejuvenation Exercises✻ |
| Risk Management | ||
| 2:40 PM | 3:20 PM | Preventing Malpractice: Complications and the Mistakes We Make* Jane S. Sillman, MD Megan Grew Pimentel, Esq. |
| 3:20 PM | 4:00 PM | Deprescribing Medication in Clinical Practice* Molly S. Brett, MD |
| 4:00 PM | 4:10 PM | Break |
| 4:10 PM | 4:50 PM | Practicing Prevention: Interdisciplinary Care Teaming in Primary Care* Maura Moran Brain, DNP, ANP-C Kelly L. Graham, MD, MPH |
| 4:50 PM | 5:20 PM | Complimentary and Integrative Medicine for Prevention Gloria Y. Yeh, MD, MPH |
| 5:20 PM | 5:30 PM | Closing Remarks |
* Qualifies for Risk Management Credits
† Live Session
✻ Optional Wellness Activity