Primary Care Essentials: Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Practice 2025 (Videos + PDF)

Enhance your clinical expertise and elevate your practice with this comprehensive online CME course. Primary Care Essentials: Core Curriculum for Ambulatory Practice will help you strengthen your skills in preventive medicine, cardiovascular risk management, chronic disease care, and effective communication—all while deepening your understanding of health equity and the care of vulnerable populations.
Through expert-led lectures and case discussions, you’ll gain practical strategies for optimizing diagnostic testing, applying new medications, and collaborating across specialties and healthcare teams in the care of complex patients. Beyond common clinical challenges, you’ll explore focused updates in dermatology, women’s health, clinical nutrition, neurology, oncology, and infectious diseases.
Chaired by Dr. Robert B. Baron and featuring outstanding UCSF faculty, this continuing medical education course offers the tools and insights you need to maximize quality, safety, equity, and value.

Topics / Speakers

Controversies in Cancer Screening 2025 – Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH
Best Practices in Immunization – Keeping Up with New Vaccines and New Practice Guidelines – Peter Chin-Hong, MD
Management of Diabetes Mellitus – Implementing the 2025 Guidelines – Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Chronic Kidney Disease – Integrating New Tests, New Guidelines, and New Medications – Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH
Management of Depression and Suicidality in Primary Care – Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
Sunscreens, “Spots” and Skin Cancer – Lindy P. Fox, MD
Cancer Treatment Today – Distinguishing Among Cancer Therapies and Anticipating Their Side Effects – Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd
Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections – Paul Nadler, MD
Heart Failure – New Strategies for Diagnosis and Treatment – Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH
Management of Obesity in Office Practice: How Do We Best Utilize the New Medications? – Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Current and Emerging Strategies for Osteoporosis – Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH
Advances in Prevention and Treatment of Stroke – What Every Primary Care Clinician Should Know – Kenneth A. Fox, MD
Covid-19, Flu, and RSV – Where Do We Stand with Common Respiratory Infections – Peter Chin-Hong, MD
No Longer a Death Sentence: Distinguishing Curable from Incurable Cancer and Improving Prognostication – Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd
Best Practices in Urgent Care – Managing Common Acute Disorders in Office Practice – Paul Nadler, MD
Common Dermatologic Disorders – Tips for Diagnosis and Management – Lindy P. Fox, MD
What’s New in Management of Menopause and Peri-menopausal Symptoms? – Judith M. E. Walsh, MD, MPH
Top 10 Infectious Disease Topics That Will Likely Change Your Practice – Peter Chin-Hong, MD
Management of Coronary Artery Disease – How Should the New Guidelines Change Our Practice? – Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH
Medications and Psychotherapy for Managing Anxiety – Emma Samelson-Jones, MD
Management of Lipid Disorders in 2025 – Integrating New Diagnostics and New Medications – Robert B. Baron, MD, MS
Novel Cancer Diagnostics – Demystifying Commonly Used Molecular and Genetic Testing in Oncology – Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd