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2025 DPC Summit On Demand
Online CME
Ensure your practice is sustainable with vital insights into administration and foundational strategies. Direct Primary Care (DPC) offers a transformative approach to practice management, especially for those exploring alternatives to the traditional insurance-payer model. If you’re curious about how your practices finances, operations, and patient relationships could evolve under DPC, this summit is your gateway.
The annual DPC Summit is the best way to learn about DPC in practice from direct primary care experts across the country. Covering a variety of beginner, intermediary and expert level subjects about DPC, this online CME includes:
- An overview of how direct primary care works
- Tips on how to start a direct primary care practice
- An exploration of the benefits of direct primary care
- Advice on running your own direct primary care practice
Format
This is an online CME recorded from the 2025 DPC Summit co-hosted by the AAFP, the DPC Alliance and the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians (ACOFP). Video recordings can be watched from wherever you have internet and at your own pace.
Price: $495
$25 for AAFP student and resident members
- Case-Based Approach to Healing Common Wounds
Eric M. Rudnick, MD, FACEP, FAEMS - Crafting Connections: Marketing and Networking Strategies for DPC Success
Byron Jasper, MD, MPH; Michelle Cooke, MD - DPC Family Panel: How DPC affects Everyone!
Jeffrey Davenport, MD (moderator); Maria Mehta; Jeff Kenney; Molly Davenport; and Paula Tomczyk - DPC Hiring and Firing
Creighton Shute, DO (moderator); Vance Lassey, MD; Byron Jasper, MD, MPH; and Amber Beckenhauer, DO - Employed vs Owning: Comparing Options for Direct Primary Care
Michael Sparks, MD - Equity in Action: Addressing Disparities Through DPC and Innovation
Byron Jasper, MD, MPH; Wendy Molaska, MD, FAAFP - Financial Fitness for Direct Primary Care Physicians: Strengthening your Practice with Smart Budgeting, Cash Flow, and Retirement Planning
Ryan Gordon, AAMS - From Stethoscopes to Soapboxes: Empowering DPC Physicians to be Catalysts for Change in Healthcare Advocacy
Wendy Molaska. MD, FAAFP; Eric Kropp, MD - Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into DPC: A Case Study
Natalie Gentile, MD - Intro to In-Office Dispensing: Logistics and Practical Points
Michael Sparks, MD - Introduction to Tick-Borne Diseases
Tiffany Leonard, MD, FAAFP - Iron Management: IV Iron Replacement and Therapeutic Phlebotomy
Lara Kenney, MD - Is DPC Really for Me?
Delicia M Haynes, MD - Launching a Successful Direct Primary Care Practice: 5 Essential Marketing Strategies for Growth and Longevity
Holly Sobrack; Nick Krawczyk, MD - Legal 101: Opt Out of the System and Into Your DPC Practice – Ask the Right Legal and Accounting Questions
Philip Eskew, DO, JD, MBA - Let's GROW! Adding Medical Staff in DPC
Vance Lassey, MD
- Male HRT: All the Rage
Philip Hellman, MD; Amber Beckenhauer, DO - Mastering Financial Statements and Cashflow Forecasting for DPC Success
Nate Goodman, CPA, MBA - Menopause and Metabolic Health: A Perfect Storm
Lisa Lucas, DO - Mindset Mastery for DPC Success: Embracing the Business Mindset, Overcoming Impostor Syndrome, and Thriving as an Entrepreneur
Adriana Raus, MD - Mission-Driven Medicine: Building a Sustainable Nonprofit DPC Model
Mark Blocher, MA, MABS - Navigating DPC for Employers
Ben Aiken, MD, MSPH, DipABLM - Podiatry for the Primary Care Physician
Amy Capoocia, DO, FACOFP - Practicing to the Top of Your License, DPC Model
Amy Capoocia, DO, FACOFP - So Your Patient Has Depression, Now What?
Chelsey Wilks, MD - Speaker Town Hall 101
Creig Shute, DO (moderator); Delicia Haynes, MD; Michael Sparks, MD; and Amy Capoocia, DO - Speaker Town Hall 201
Byron Jasper, MD, MPH (Moderator); Vance Lassey, MD; Michelle Cooke, MD; and Wendy Molaska, MD - Start Up Basics
Amy Capoocia, DO, FACOFP - Traction in DPC: Keeping Your Partnership Focused and Your Business Strong Eleanor Glass, MD
- Unbound Freedom: Leveraging Healthy Boundaries to Thrive in Your Direct Primary Care Practice
Michelle Cooke, MD - Understanding Management Services Organization Model for Growth and Expansion
Ericka L. Adler, JD - Utilization of Coronary Artery Calcium (CAC) Scores to Predict Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Risk
Travis Allen, MD - When "Normal TSH" Isn't Normal
Dana Gibbs Clark, MD
- Evaluate effective strategies for transitioning to, or starting a new DPC practice while employing long-term success plans.
- Employ essential business management skills required of a successful DPC practice owner and examine how these skills promote improving patient care.
- Discuss the prospective impact of the DPC model in fostering a renewed interest in primary care and educating the future workforce on primary care.
- Demonstrate up-to-date, hands-on techniques for some commonly utilized clinical procedures seen in today’s primary care clinics.
- Examine various educational methods and processes that DPC practices have established to engage employers in their community and coordinate patient care in order to grow an existing DPC business model.
- High-speed broadband connection required for online access.
- Latest version of Firefox, Safari or Chrome on Windows or Macintosh computers or tablets.
- Latest version of Adobe Reader.
The AAFP has reviewed 2025 DPC Summit On Demand and deemed it acceptable for up to 31.5 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credits. Term of Approval is from 9/2/2025 to 9/2/2027. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of AAFP and The DPC Alliance, ACOFP. The AAFP is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Family Physicians designates this Enduring Materials for a maximum of 31.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
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