Primary Care Update Conference

A Centripetal Approach to Finding Fulfilment in Medicine*

• Summarize the professional consensus that clinician wellbeing is a core competency based on the evidence that intrinsic fulfilment can translate to extrinsic professional capacities through a centripetal force. 
• Explain how self-directed practices, breath regulation, meditation, and structured reflection can foster emotional regulation and provide a sense of meaning at work for scaffolding the active pursuit of excellence and re-engagement with professional identities.
• Utilize a simple practice of breath regulation that can be done between patient encounters, or meetings, to avert stress, create mindfulness and support increased energy for divergent thinking and literacy of self-enabled growth.

Chair's Address

• Provide updates on Family and Community Medicine's clinical, research, and education mission areas.
• Report on the clinical performance and impact of Baylor Family Medicine and the Community Health Program.
• Highlight grant funding and research scholarly activities.
• Celebrate the fundraising achievement of our educational endowment, and the graduates of our residency and fellowship programs.

Lipid Management: From Guidelines to Practice

• Discuss the recently updated Lipid Management Guidelines.  
• Identify populations and markers of higher risk and how to manage them.
• Integrate this emerging evidence into patient care plans in the primary care setting.

Obesity Medicine: Key Takeaways for Primary Care

• Recognize obesity is a medical condition, not a personal failing or lack of willpower issue. 
• Understand how to select the best treatment modalities for your patients and provide them in the most affordable ways. 
• Understand how to apply a practical approach to obesity care that can be incorporated into primary care. 

A Paradigm Shift: Advances in Pain Management and Lifestyle Medicine**

• Report on the evidence in support of non-opioid pharmacotherapy and nonpharmacologic modalities as the mainstay of comprehensive treatment for chronic pain. 
• Define terms used in identifying pain types, including the concepts of peripheral and central sensitization and the roles they play in chronic pain management.
• Identify commonly used non-opioid analgesic medications; describe their mechanism of action and highlight common and major side effects.
• Review the current CDC guidelines for opioids.
• Review the evidence and options in support of interventional approaches for pain originating from the spine.
• Understand the six modifiable factors of lifestyle medicine.

Emerging Evidence: Mental Health Therapeutics

• Discuss recent advances in the diagnosis and management of common mental health disorders relevant to primary care. 
• Apply current evidence to optimize treatment selection and care coordination for patients with mental health conditions. 
• Identify emerging therapies including digital therapeutics and innovations that may influence future standards of mental health care delivery.  

Human Trafficking***

• Review how trafficking occurs and the red flags of exploitation. 
• Discuss the basics of trauma-informed care and management. 
• Identify local resources for trafficked individuals.