Harvard Office Practice of Primary Care Medicine 2025 (Videos + Slides)

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