UCSF Primary Care Medicine Update 2026

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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Apr2_DAY 5_Session

Apr3_DAY 6_Session

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