Primary Care Update: Family Medicine and Geriatrics 2025 (Slides only)

Primary Care Update: Family Medicine and Geriatrics
Jun 20, 2025 – Jun 22, 2025
Williamsburg/Jamestown/Yorktown – Kingsmill Resort
Overview
This conference is designed to provide primary care practitioners with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues in Family Medicine and Geriatrics while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The discussion-based format of the conference will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, and hands-on workshops. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates in Family Medicine and Geriatrics, to enhance the knowledge-base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program diagnosing, treating, and prescribing the most effective courses of treatment, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.
Target Audience
All Physicians and other Healthcare Professionals seeking clinical information about issues in Family Medicine and Geriatrics.
Speakers
Our presenting national faculty speakers make it their professional goals to enhance the training of primary care clinicians. This Continuing Medical Education program promises to help you learn the most current, best medicine, and techniques for making the diagnosis easier during a 20-minute office visit.
Schedule
Friday, June 20th
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM:
Smoking Cessation
Objectives: 1) Recognize the role of smoking in disease etiology 2) Utilize techniques to enhance the patient’s ability to stop smoking
8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK
8:35 AM – 9:35 AM:
Recognition and Treatment of Depression
Objectives: 1) Review the incidence and prevalence of anxiety and depression 2) Evaluate patients with signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression to make an accurate diagnosis 3) Prescribe the appropriate medication to treat these disorders
9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:
Multimorbidity: Discussing Goals of Care and the Challenging Decisions
Objectives: 1) Illustrate the four principles of clinical ethics 2) Discuss principles of shared decision-making and the challenges to achieving this 3) Define the “technological imperative” and how it applies in the care of seriously ill patients 4) Interpret preferences regarding survival, quality-of-life, and cost to patients for optimal patient-centered outcomes
10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM:
Opioids and Pain Management in the Seriously Ill
Objectives: 1) Discuss how pain management strategies may vary in seriously ill patients, those approaching end-of-life, or those with chronic pain syndromes 2) Describe differences between dose, onset and duration of opioids based on drug formulation, route administered and tolerance 3) List commonly encountered opioid side-effects
Saturday, June 21st
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM:
Non-Malignant Pain Considerations and Safe Opioid Prescribing
Objectives: 1) Develop a deeper understanding of the neurobiology of chronic pain and how this relates to pharmacologic targets 2) Develop a data-driven and practical understanding of dosing, benefits, and side-effects of common non-opioid pharmacologic agents 3) Review pharmacologic algorithms for treating common pain syndromes, such as acute back pain, fibromyalgia, and neuropathic pain 4) Develop a practical approach to opioid risk stratification and identification of opioid use disorder

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK
8:35 AM – 9:35 AM:
Polypharmacy and Pearls for Non-Pain Symptom Management in the Elderly
Objectives: 1) Compare and contrast efficacy of antiemetics and how to select appropriate medication based on patient symptom profile 2) Interpret evidence of the role of oxygen and opioids in treatment of dyspnea 3) Describe common management strategies for patients who are receiving comfort cares
9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:
Routine Adult Care
Objectives: 1) Determine which screening tests are indicated for particular patients, according to USPSTF guidelines 2) Order appropriate immunizations for the adult patient
10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM:
Obesity
Objectives: 1) State the epidemiology of obesity in America and the health risks associated with obesity 2) Assess patients who are obese and determine if they need treatment 3) Recommend and utilize the ACC/AHA/TOS Guidelines for the Management of Overweight and Obese Adults, including diet, exercise, medications, and bariatric surgery 4) Employ the Endocrinology Society Guidelines for the Pharmacological Management of Obesity in your practice
Sunday, June 22nd
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM:
Anemia
Objectives: 1) Develop a diagnostic strategy to ascertain the etiology of anemia 2) Utilize the guidelines for diagnosing anemia in children and adults in terms of available testing 3) Develop a clinical approach to treating various anemias to include iron deficiency and “anemia of chronic disease”, due to infections, inflammatory diseases, chronic kidney disease (CKD), malignancies, cytokines, interferons, tumor necrosis factor (TNF), et cetera 4) Describe the role of consultants in the evaluation and management of anemia
8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK
8:35 AM – 9:35 AM:
Thyroid Diseases
Objectives: 1) Formulate a plan for the evaluation of a patient with presumed thyroid disease 2) Interpret common lab and imaging tests in the evaluation of a patient with thyroid disease 3) Select appropriate treatment modalities, both medical and surgical, for patients with thyroid disease, according to the American Thyroid Association Guidelines
9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:
Differentiating and Diagnosing Delirium, Dementia, and Depression in the Elderly
Objectives: 1) Become familiar with the diagnosis of major depression and its epidemiology in older adults 2) Discuss two quick office-based screening tools 3) Review evidence-based pharmacological and non-pharmacological management strategies 4) Differentiate depression and pseudodementia from dementia and delirium
10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK
10:50 AM – 11:50 AM:
Approaches to Early- and Late-Stage Dementia Syndromes
Objectives: 1) Compare cognitive impairment and dementia, and discuss the common trajectories of each 2) Interpret the best evidence in investigating the role of nutritional support in patients with dementia 3) Describe common prognostic scales for patients with dementia, including the Mitchell Mortality Index and the FAST Score
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