Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Core Updates and Essentials in Primary Care 2024-2025

1. Overview
The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Core Updates and Essentials in Primary Care 2024-2025 provides a comprehensive, evidence-based review of the most common challenges encountered in outpatient practice. The program spans multiple disciplines, including gastroenterology, geriatrics, nephrology, rheumatology, and women’s health, equipping primary care providers with actionable strategies to improve diagnosis, medical management, and patient outcomes.
Course Dates: Saturday, September 14, 2024 – Saturday, May 10, 2025
2. Learning Objectives

Evaluate and manage common gastroenterology issues, including GERD, IBS, and epigastric pain, while optimizing proton pump inhibitor therapy.

Apply evidence-based pharmacotherapy and integrate new drugs into primary care practice for optimal patient management.

Manage complex geriatric challenges, such as hypertension, orthostatic hypotension, and navigating ethical issues in elderly care.

Diagnose and treat electrolyte disorders, chronic kidney disease, and navigate the safe use of nephrotoxic and renal-protective drugs.

Implement updated screening and management protocols for rheumatologic conditions, pain management, and women’s health issues, including menopause and abnormal uterine bleeding.

3. Target Audience

Best for primary care physicians, internists, and family medicine practitioners who want updates on core outpatient medical management and diagnostics.

4. Topics
Topics (9 Lectures):

GASTROENTEROLOGY March 8, 2025

GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE September 14, 2024

GERIATRICS May 10, 2025

NEPHROLOGY January 11, 2025

OPHTHALMOLOGY-OTOLARYNGOLOGY April 12, 2025

PAIN MANAGEMENT December 14, 2024

RHEUMATOLOGY October 12, 2024

RISK MANAGEMENT November 9, 2024

WOMEN’S HEALTH-GYNECOLOGY February 8, 2025