UCSF Primary Care Medicine Update 2026

Advanced Outpatient Internal Medicine, Preventive Care & Evidence-Based Primary Care Review

UCSF Primary Care Medicine Update 2026 provides a broad, clinically focused review of modern outpatient medicine designed for physicians and healthcare professionals managing the everyday complexity of primary care practice. Presented by UCSF faculty and leading clinical experts, this program delivers evidence-based updates across internal medicine, family medicine, preventive care, women’s health, pulmonology, infectious disease, neurology, obesity medicine, dermatology, and cancer screening.

Held at the Marriott Resort Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii, the course combines practical outpatient medicine with updated clinical guidelines, diagnostic strategies, preventive care recommendations, and patient-centered management approaches relevant to modern ambulatory practice. The program includes 6 video sessions, subtitles, and downloadable PDFs covering high-yield topics frequently encountered in office-based medicine.

Unlike highly specialized conferences focused on a single organ system, UCSF Primary Care Medicine Update 2026 reflects the real-world breadth of primary care, where clinicians routinely manage overlapping chronic disease, preventive screening, women’s health concerns, respiratory infections, neurological symptoms, dermatologic disorders, and complex communication challenges within the same clinic schedule.

Comprehensive Review of Modern Primary Care Medicine

Primary care physicians increasingly function as the central coordinators of longitudinal patient care. Clinical responsibilities now extend beyond diagnosis and treatment into:

• Preventive medicine
• Chronic disease management
• Cancer screening
• Vaccination strategies
• Shared decision-making
• Health disparities advocacy
• Multidisciplinary coordination
• Obesity medicine
• Behavioral health integration

This course addresses those expanding responsibilities through a clinically practical curriculum focused on current evidence and outpatient applicability.

The educational content reviews:

• Preventive medicine guidelines
• Cancer screening updates
• Women’s health management
• Infectious disease treatment
• Pulmonary medicine
• Neurology in primary care
• Dermatologic disorders
• Obesity management
• Cognitive disorders
• Vaccination strategies
• Respiratory infections
• Stroke prevention
• Shared decision-making frameworks

The discussions are designed to improve both diagnostic accuracy and long-term patient management in outpatient clinical settings.

Preventive Medicine & Cancer Screening

Preventive care remains one of the most rapidly evolving areas of internal medicine.

The course reviews updated approaches to:

• Breast cancer screening
• Prostate cancer screening
• Lung cancer screening
• Colorectal cancer screening
• Cervical cancer screening
• Endometrial cancer evaluation
• Immunization protocols
• Preventive counseling

One recurring challenge in primary care involves balancing evidence-based screening recommendations with patient-specific risk factors, comorbidities, and evolving guideline changes.

The cancer prevention lectures emphasize practical outpatient implementation and shared decision-making rather than purely theoretical screening algorithms.

Women’s Health in Primary Care

Women’s health represents a major component of the curriculum, including:

• Contraceptive counseling
• Abnormal uterine bleeding
• Menopause management
• Perimenopausal symptoms
• Urinary disorders in women
• Early pregnancy loss
• Medication abortion
• Reproductive health care

In primary care practice, clinicians frequently encounter gynecologic and reproductive concerns outside formal OB/GYN settings. The course appropriately focuses on practical management strategies relevant to outpatient medicine and continuity care.

The menopause and perimenopause discussions are particularly timely given the growing clinical focus on midlife women’s health and individualized hormone therapy counseling.

Infectious Diseases & Respiratory Illnesses

Modern primary care increasingly requires rapid adaptation to changing infectious disease patterns and respiratory illness management.

The infectious disease sessions review:

• COVID-19 management
• Influenza and RSV treatment
• Adult vaccination strategies
• Emerging infectious disease updates
• Common outpatient infections
• Preventive infectious disease care

The program also addresses how respiratory infections intersect with chronic pulmonary disease and vulnerable patient populations.

These discussions are highly practical for clinicians managing outpatient respiratory complaints during seasonal surges and evolving public health guidance.

Pulmonary Medicine for Primary Care

Pulmonary complaints remain among the most common reasons for outpatient evaluation.

The course reviews:

• Asthma management
• COPD treatment
• Chronic cough evaluation
• Dyspnea assessment
• Pulmonary embolism recognition
• Common pulmonary symptoms

One of the strengths of these sessions is their focus on differentiating serious cardiopulmonary disease from more common outpatient presentations while maintaining evidence-based diagnostic efficiency.

Neurology in Everyday Practice

Neurologic complaints often create diagnostic uncertainty in primary care settings because symptoms may overlap with psychiatric, metabolic, vascular, and degenerative conditions.

The neurology lectures address:

• Dementia evaluation
• Cognitive impairment
• Parkinson disease
• Essential tremor
• Stroke prevention
• TIA management
• Acute neurologic symptoms

The dementia and cognitive assessment discussions are especially relevant as aging populations continue increasing the prevalence of neurodegenerative disease in outpatient practice.

Dermatology for the Primary Care Clinician

Dermatologic conditions account for a substantial percentage of office visits in family medicine and internal medicine.

The course reviews:

• Skin cancer recognition
• Eczema and inflammatory dermatoses
• Acne treatment
• Chronic urticaria
• Hair loss disorders
• Drug eruptions
• Infectious skin disease
• Aging skin conditions

These sessions emphasize practical recognition and outpatient management rather than highly specialized dermatopathology detail, making them particularly useful for non-dermatologists.

Obesity Medicine & Metabolic Health

Obesity management continues evolving rapidly with the expansion of GLP-1 agonists and newer metabolic therapies.

The obesity medicine discussions review:

• Modern obesity pharmacotherapy
• Long-term weight management
• Cardiometabolic risk reduction
• Lifestyle intervention strategies
• Patient communication around obesity care

Primary care physicians increasingly serve as frontline obesity medicine providers, making these updates highly relevant to daily practice.

Health Equity, Communication & Patient-Centered Care

Beyond clinical diagnosis and treatment, the course also addresses:

• Health disparities
• Equitable patient care
• Shared decision-making
• Communication strategies
• Interprofessional collaboration
• Value-based medicine

These discussions reflect the growing recognition that effective primary care extends beyond disease management alone.

What’s Included

• 6 video sessions (.mp4)
• 6 subtitle files (.vtt)
• 24 downloadable PDFs
• UCSF faculty lectures
• Evidence-based outpatient medicine updates
• Preventive care and chronic disease management review

Target Audience

This course is ideal for:

• Primary care physicians
• Internal medicine physicians
• Family medicine practitioners
• Nurse practitioners
• Physician assistants
• Pharmacists
• Preventive medicine clinicians
• Women’s health providers
• Ambulatory care professionals

Why UCSF Primary Care Medicine Update 2026 Matters

Modern outpatient medicine requires clinicians to manage an increasingly wide range of conditions while integrating prevention, chronic disease care, behavioral health, evidence-based screening, and patient-centered communication into daily practice.

UCSF Primary Care Medicine Update 2026 succeeds because it mirrors the complexity of real primary care medicine rather than isolating diseases into narrow specialty silos. The course combines practical outpatient management with current guideline updates and multidisciplinary clinical reasoning relevant to today’s ambulatory healthcare environment.

For clinicians seeking a broad, evidence-based update across modern primary care and internal medicine, this program provides a highly practical and clinically relevant educational resource.

4. Topics

1. BRONDFIELD Controversies in Cancer Screening

2. JACKSON Cervical and Endometrial Cancer

3.  CHIN-HONG Strategies in Adult Vaccination

4.  WHETSTONE Quality Contraceptive Care

5.  ENGSTROM Prevention and Treatment of Stroke

6.  MAURER Common Derm Problems

7.  BRONDFIELD Updates in Breast and Prostate Cancer

8.  BARON Obesity in Primary Care

9.  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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