1. Overview
The UCSF Primary Care Medicine Update 2026 provides a comprehensive, evidence-based review of essential topics and recent clinical advances tailored for outpatient practice. The program covers a broad spectrum of internal medicine and primary care disciplines, including oncology screening, women’s health, infectious diseases, neurology, pulmonology, and dermatology, to enhance everyday diagnostic and management skills.
Course Dates: Sunday, March 29, 2026, 5:00 PM – Friday, April 3, 2026, 10:40 AM, Marriott Resort Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, HI
2. Learning Objectives
Implement new guidelines in office-based preventive medicine including cancer prevention and screening, and immunizations;
Use best practices to treat patients with COVID, influenza, RSV and other respiratory infections;
Treat common disorders in dermatology including skin cancer, eczema, acne, skin infections, hair loss, chronic urticaria, drug eruptions, and disorders of aging skin;
Manage common concerns in women’s health including contraception, menopause, abnormal bleeding, urinary disorders, early pregnancy loss, and medication abortion;
Management common disorders of the lung including asthma, COPD, pulmonary embolus, chronic cough, and dyspnea;
Manage common and complex neurological complaints including cognitive impairment, movement disorders, transient ischemic attacks and acute strokes;
Develop best practices in understanding current diagnostics, treatments, and prognosis of common cancers;
Development new approaches to treatment of common infections;
Understand and treat obesity and use the new obesity medications
Select the best current and future diagnostic tests and best new medications;
Use best evidence and optimize patient communication and shared decision making;
Improve interprofessional teamwork and collaboration;
Enhance value in medical practice;
Become a better clinician and advocate with a deeper understanding of health disparities and the central role of primary care clinicians in providing equitable, patient-centered care.
3. Target Audience
Best for primary care physicians, internists, and family medicine practitioners who want updates on outpatient medicine and preventive care.
Specialties – Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Preventive Medicine
Professions – Nurse, Nurse Practitioner/Advanced Practice Nursing, Other Health Professional, Pharmacist, Physician, Physician Assistant/Associate
4. Topics
01 BRONDFIELD Controversies in Cancer Screening
02 JACKSON Cervical and Endometrial Cancer
03 CHIN-HONG Strategies in Adult Vaccination
04 WHETSTONE Quality Contraceptive Care
05 ENGSTROM Prevention and Treatment of Stroke
06 MAURER Common Derm Problems
07 BRONDFIELD Updates in Breast and Prostate Cancer
08 BARON Obesity in Primary Care
09 WHETSTONE Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
10 MAURER Skin Cancer
11 JACKSON Management of Menopause and Peri-Menopausal Symptoms
12 WHETSTONE Early Miscarriage and Medication Abortion
13 ENGSTROM Managing Dementia in 2026
14 SANTHOSH Asthma and COPD
15 CHIN-HONG Covid Flu and RSV
16 SANTHOSH PEs for PCPs
17 SANTHOSH Common Pulmonary Symptoms
18 MAURER Derm Infectious Disease
19 ENGSTROM Parkinsons Disease and Essential Tremor
20 BRONDFIELD Updates in Lung and Colorectal Cancer
21 CHIN-HONG Top 10 Infectious Disease Topics
22 JACKSON Urinary Disorders in Women
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