Primary Care Update: Family Medicine and Geriatrics

Jun 20, 2025 – Jun 22, 2025

Williamsburg/Jamestown/Yorktown - Kingsmill Resort

Overview

This conference is designed to provide primary care practitioners with up-to-date, evidence-based information on commonly encountered issues in Family Medicine and Geriatrics while suggesting pragmatic approaches to clinical management. The discussion-based format of the conference will encourage audience participation through dynamic lectures, case-based studies, and hands-on workshops. Keynote speakers will present and critically assess recent advancements and industry updates in Family Medicine and Geriatrics, to enhance the knowledge-base and core competence of attendees. The successful completion of this interactive program diagnosing, treating, and prescribing the most effective courses of treatment, with the ultimate goal of improving patient outcomes.

Target Audience

All Physicians and other Healthcare Professionals seeking clinical information about issues in Family Medicine and Geriatrics.

Speakers

Our presenting national faculty speakers make it their professional goals to enhance the training of primary care clinicians. This Continuing Medical Education program promises to help you learn the most current, best medicine, and techniques for making the diagnosis easier during a 20-minute office visit.

Schedule

Friday, June 20th

7:30 AM – 8:30 AM:

Smoking Cessation

Objectives: 1) Recognize the role of smoking in disease etiology 2) Utilize techniques to enhance the patient’s ability to stop smoking

8:30 AM – 8:35 AM ~ BREAK

8:35 AM – 9:35 AM:

Recognition and Treatment of Depression

Objectives: 1) Review the incidence and prevalence of anxiety and depression 2) Evaluate patients with signs and symptoms of anxiety and depression to make an accurate diagnosis 3) Prescribe the appropriate medication to treat these disorders

9:35 AM – 9:45 AM ~ BREAK

9:45 AM – 10:45 AM:

Multimorbidity: Discussing Goals of Care and the Challenging Decisions

Objectives: 1) Illustrate the four principles of clinical ethics 2) Discuss principles of shared decision-making and the challenges to achieving this 3) Define the “technological imperative” and how it applies in the care of seriously ill patients 4) Interpret preferences regarding survival, quality-of-life, and cost to patients for optimal patient-centered outcomes

10:45 AM – 10:50 AM ~ BREAK

10:50 AM – 11:50 AM:

Opioids and Pain Management in the Seriously Ill

Objectives: 1) Discuss how pain management strategies may vary in seriously ill patients, those approaching end-of-life, or those with chronic pain syndromes 2) Describe differences between dose, onset and duration of opioids based on drug formulation, route administered and tolerance 3) List commonly encountered opioid side-effects