Temple University 47th Annual Family Medicine Review 2023

Temple University 47th Annual Family Medicine Review 2023

A concise, practice-focused update spanning the full breadth of family medicine. Faculty convert current evidence 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; 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 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