Temple University 46th Annual Family Medicine Review 2022

Temple University 46th Annual Family Medicine Review 2022

A concise, practice-focused update spanning the full spectrum of family medicine. Faculty convert 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 common complaints (chest pain, dyspnea, headache, abdominal pain, dizziness, rash)

• Preventive care & screening across the lifespan; vaccine updates 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

• Pediatric essentials: well-child care, fever, asthma, ADHD, dermatology, common infections

• 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

Who Should Attend
Family 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

• Turn guidelines into simple algorithms that speed decisions and reduce 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