American Academy of Family Physicians DPC Summit On Demand 2025

Ensure your practice is sustainable with vital insights into administration and foundational strategies. Direct Primary Care (DPC) offers a transformative approach to practice management, especially for those exploring alternatives to the traditional insurance-payer model. If you’re curious about how your practices finances, operations, and patient relationships could evolve under DPC, this summit is your gateway.
The annual DPC Summit is the best way to learn about DPC in practice from direct primary care experts across the country. Covering a variety of beginner, intermediary and expert level subjects about DPC, this online CME includes:

An overview of how direct primary care works
Tips on how to start a direct primary care practice
An exploration of the benefits of direct primary care
Advice on running your own direct primary care practice

This is an online recorded from the 2025 DPC Summit co-hosted by the AAFP, the DPC Alliance and the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP). Video recordings can be watched from wherever you have internet and at your own pace.

Learning Objectives

Evaluate effective strategies for transitioning to, or starting a new DPC practice while employing long-term success plans.
Employ essential business management skills required of a successful DPC practice owner and examine how these skills promote improving patient care.
Discuss the prospective impact of the DPC model in fostering a renewed interest in primary care and educating the future workforce on primary care.
Demonstrate up-to-date, hands-on techniques for some commonly utilized clinical procedures seen in today’s primary care clinics.
Examine various educational methods and processes that DPC practices have established to engage employers in their community and coordinate patient care in order to grow an existing DPC business model.

The AAFP DPC Summit On Demand 2025 is best for family physicians, practice owners, residents, and healthcare administrators who want to explore or refine the Direct Primary Care (DPC) model. It provides , case‑based training on starting, managing, and sustaining a DPC practice, making it ideal for clinicians seeking alternatives to traditional insurance‑based care.
Who Should Enroll

Family physicians & general practitioners interested in transitioning to or optimizing a DPC practice.
Practice owners & administrators seeking strategies for financial sustainability and operational efficiency.
Residents & fellows in family medicine exploring innovative practice models for career planning.
Clinicians dissatisfied with insurance‑payer systems who want more autonomy and stronger patient relationships.
Healthcare consultants & managers advising practices on DPC implementation.

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Sessions With Speaker

Case-Based Approach to Healing Common Wounds
Eric M. Rudnick, MD, FACEP, FAEMS
Crafting Connections: Marketing and Networking Strategies for DPC Success
Byron Jasper, MD, MPH; Michelle Cooke, MD
DPC Family Panel: How DPC affects Everyone!
Jeffrey Davenport, MD (moderator); Maria Mehta; Jeff Kenney; Molly Davenport; and Paula Tomczyk
DPC Hiring and Firing
Creighton Shute, DO (moderator); Vance Lassey, MD; Byron Jasper, MD, MPH; and Amber Beckenhauer, DO
Employed vs Owning: Comparing Options for Direct Primary Care
Michael Sparks, MD
Equity in Action: Addressing Disparities Through DPC and Innovation
Byron Jasper, MD, MPH; Wendy Molaska, MD, FAAFP
Financial Fitness for Direct Primary Care Physicians: Strengthening your Practice with Smart Budgeting, Cash Flow, and Retirement Planning
Ryan Gordon, AAMS
From Stethoscopes to Soapboxes: Empowering DPC Physicians to be Catalysts for Change in Healthcare Advocacy
Wendy Molaska. MD, FAAFP; Eric Kropp, MD
Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into DPC: A Case Study
Natalie Gentile, MD
Intro to In-Office Dispensing: Logistics and Practical Points
Michael Sparks, MD
Introduction to Tick-Borne Diseases
Tiffany Leonard, MD, FAAFP
Iron Management: IV Iron Replacement and Therapeutic Phlebotomy
Lara Kenney, MD
Is DPC Really for Me?
Delicia M Haynes, MD
Launching a Successful Direct Primary Care Practice: 5 Essential Marketing Strategies for Growth and Longevity
Holly Sobrack; Nick Krawczyk, MD
Legal 101: Opt Out of the System and Into Your DPC Practice – Ask the Right Legal and Accounting Questions
Philip Eskew, DO, JD, MBA
Let’s GROW! Adding Medical Staff in DPC
Vance Lassey, MD

Male HRT: All the Rage
Philip Hellman, MD; Amber Beckenhauer, DO
Mastering Financial Statements and Cashflow Forecasting for DPC Success
Nate Goodman, CPA, MBA
Menopause and Metabolic Health: A Perfect Storm
Lisa Lucas, DO
Mindset Mastery for DPC Success: Embracing the Business Mindset, Overcoming Impostor Syndrome, and Thriving as an Entrepreneur
Adriana Raus, MD
Mission-Driven Medicine: Building a Sustainable Nonprofit DPC Model
Mark Blocher, MA, MABS
Navigating DPC for Employers
Ben Aiken, MD, MSPH, DipABLM
Podiatry for the Primary Care Physician
Amy Capoocia, DO, FACOFP
Practicing to the Top of Your License, DPC Model
Amy Capoocia, DO, FACOFP
So Your Patient Has Depression, Now What?
Chelsey Wilks, MD
Speaker Town Hall 101
Creig Shute, DO (moderator); Delicia Haynes, MD; Michael Sparks, MD; and Amy Capoocia, DO
Speaker Town Hall 201
Byron Jasper, MD, MPH (Moderator); Vance Lassey, MD; Michelle Cooke, MD; and Wendy Molaska, MD
Start Up Basics
Amy Capoocia, DO, FACOFP
Traction in DPC: Keeping Your Partnership Focused and Your Business Strong Eleanor Glass, MD
Unbound Freedom: Leveraging Healthy Boundaries to Thrive in Your Direct Primary Care Practice
Michelle Cooke, MD
Understanding Management Services Organization Model for Growth and Expansion
Ericka L. Adler, JD
Utilization of Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Scores to Predict Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk
Travis Allen, MD
When “Normal TSH” Isn’t Normal
Dana Gibbs Clark, MD