2025 Refresher Course in Family Medicine

March 6, 2025 to March 8, 2025

Overview

The 47th Annual Family Medicine Refresher Course conference provides quality continuing education to family physicians, primary care physicians, students, residents, fellows, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals interested in primary care. This two-and-a-half-day event features continually changing topics and speakers, with an agenda developed by a multidisciplinary collaboration of expert faculty and practicing providers. It continues to yield a robust attendance “in our own backyard” from Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, and New York. The conference will offer special breakout sessions designed to meet the needs of busy practitioners including lifestyle medicine, diabetes monitoring technology, and point-of-care ultrasound.

Target Audience

Family physicians, primary care physicians, students, residents, fellows, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals.

Learning Objectives

After completing the course, active participants will be able to 
1. Describe how health equity impacts patient outcomes
2. Apply course content to improve patient care
3. Investigate opportunities for interprofessional collaboration

Additional Information

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 18.60 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 21.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 21.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
01/13/2025
Course expires: 
05/31/2025
Event starts: 
03/06/2025 - 6:15am EST
Event ends: 
03/08/2025 - 12:00pm EST
Cost:
$1.00

Program

Venue

Sheraton Pittsburgh Hotel Station Square
Pittsburgh, PA
United States

Hotel offering your special group rate:

Sheraton Pittsburgh Hotel at Station Square for $199.00 USD per night - Last Day to Book : Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Book your group rate for The University of Pittsburgh, Department of Family Medicine - Refresher

Faculty

Faculty Disclosure Statement:

All individuals in a position to control the content of this education activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients.

The following information was disclosed:
Natalie Gentile is a consultant for Kenvue (formerly Johnson and Johnson), and is a consultant for allergic rhinitis products.

Maria Gioia has grant/research support with RK Mellon Foundation

Donald Middleton is a member of CE Speakers’ Bureau with Merck and Pfizer, and is a consultant with Sanofi Pasteur, Vaxcyte, Dynavax, GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer, and Moderna

Frank Sciurba is a consultant with Sanofi/Regeneron, AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). He also receives grant/research support from Sanofi/Regeneron, AstraZeneca, Verona Pharma, Nuvaira, Gala Therapeutics, Pulmonx, NIH, AHRQ, COPD Foundation

Richard Zimmerman receives grant/research support from Sanofi Pasteur initiated grant, CDC, and NIH.

Richard Zou is a consultant for Verona Pharma PLC – Physician Advisory Board, and receives grant/research support from CHEST Foundation Research Grant in COPD.

No other members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation

imageIn support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 21.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Pharmacy (CPE)
This knowledge-based activity provides 18.6 contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit. 

Other Healthcare Professionals: Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity. 

Available Credit

  • 18.60 ACPE Pharmacy
    The UPMC Center for Continuing Education in the Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a Provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 21.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 21.25 Attendance

Exhibitors

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS:

Abbott
AstraZeneca
Axsome Therapeutics
Bayer Healthcare
Dexcom
Dynavax
Exact Sciences
GSK
Merck
Nestle HealthScience
UPMC Health Plan

Register/Take course

Price

Cost:
$1.00
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FMRC Registration Fees

MDs, DOs, - $550
Nurses, PAs, PharmDs, and other HCPs - $325
Fellows, Residents - $300
Students -  $225
Coordinators, Admin Staff -  $175
Virtual Attendance - $350
One-day Attendance* - $275
Same Day Registration - $600


*Two-day attendance would pay for the full conference fee