Temple University 48th Annual Family Medicine Review 2024

Release date: 12/02/2024
A concise, practice-focused update spanning the full breadth of family medicine. Faculty turn current evidence and guidelines into clear diagnostic pathways, prescribing choices, and counseling strategies for clinic, urgent care, and inpatient cross-cover.
What You Will Learn

Efficient workups for high-volume complaints (chest pain, dyspnea, headache, abdominal pain, dizziness, rash)

Preventive care & screening across the lifespan, including vaccine pearls and catch-up strategies

Chronic disease refreshers: hypertension, lipids, diabetes/obesity, CKD, COPD/asthma, heart failure

Women’s & men’s health: contraception/HRT, bone health, prenatal/postpartum basics, prostate/LUTS

Behavioral health: depression, anxiety, substance use, sleep disorders; brief interventions and shared decisions

Pediatrics fundamentals: well-child care, fever, asthma, ADHD, common infections and rashes

Procedures & point-of-care: derm/minor procedures, MSK injections, POCUS fundamentals, ECG basics

Geriatrics & multimorbidity: polypharmacy/deprescribing, falls, cognition, goals-of-care

Event Details

Format: Live, case-based lectures with board-style Q&A and practical take-home checklists

Structure: Thematic blocks (prevention, acute care, chronic disease, women/men’s health, pediatrics, geriatrics, practice essentials) designed for next-day implementation

Pace: Optimized for busy clinicians balancing patient care and study time

Who Should AttendFamily physicians, general internists and pediatricians in primary care roles, hospitalists, urgent care clinicians, NPs, PAs, pharmacists, nurses, and trainees seeking an efficient, practice-ready update or board refresh.
Why Attend

Convert guidelines into simple algorithms that speed decisions and trim unnecessary testing

Strengthen prescribing, safety monitoring, and patient counseling across high-volume conditions

Bring back checklists, order prompts, and patient-education scripts that improve outcomes and experience

+ Topics:

Preventive care, vaccines, lifestyle & cardiometabolic risk

Acute care: URI/LRTI, sore throat/otitis/sinusitis, cellulitis/abscess, back pain, red-flag algorithms

Chronic disease: HTN, lipids, DM/obesity meds, CKD, COPD/asthma, HF, anticoagulation

Women’s health & reproductive care; men’s health & urology pearls

Pediatrics: growth/development, asthma, ADHD, fever strategies, dermatology

Dermatology & procedures; MSK & sports medicine; pain management basics

Behavioral health & sleep; substance use and harm-reduction approaches

Geriatrics: cognition, falls, frailty, deprescribing, advance care planning

Practice essentials: documentation/coding, equity & SDOH, telehealth touchpoints