This reflects the content from the 2022 course. 2023 specifics not yet available.

Intensive Review of Internal Medicine:

The Acclaimed Clinical Update

If you are seeking a practical and comprehensive clinical review, this program ensures you are up to date across all major fields of internal medicine, including:

WORLD-RENOWNED PRESENTERS

All sessions are led by world-renowned experts in their respective fields of medicine, who provide updates, best practices, and guidance for:

• Exercising newer options for diagnosis: what to choose, when, and why
• Treatment and care management strategies to optimize patient outcomes
• How to avoid medical mistakes
• Improved approaches to common and complex clinical challenges
• Navigating screening controversies

A SAMPLING OF WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

Listed below is a small sampling of what you will learn in the program.  The education is practical, expedient, and focused on patient outcomes.

CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE

• Emerging strategies for cardiovascular prevention
• Optimal use of PCSK9 inhibitors and other novel lipid-lowering therapies for patients with heart disease
• Contemporary management of hypertension: addressing new treatment targets
• Updated management of patients with heart failure across the EF spectrum
• Evolving diagnosis and management of myocardial infarction
• Advances in management of venous thromboembolism
• Contemporary management of peripheral arterial disease and abdominal aortic aneurysm
• Transcatheter therapeutics for valvular heart disease
• Updates in management of atrial fibrillation and commonly encountered arrhythmias
• Fundamentals of congenital heart disease
• Evaluation and management of cardiovascular disease in women

ONCOLOGY

• Immunotherapy for cancer
• Identification and management of risk factors for common cancers
• Update on the screening of prostate cancer
• New approaches to managing breast cancer
• Workup and treatment of common cancers, including:
  • Prostate
  • Bladder
  • Lung
  • Breast
  • Colon
  • GI
  • Leukemia
  • Lymphoma
  • Multiple myeloma

INFECTIOUS DISEASES

• Emerging pathogens and resistance patterns: recognition and treatment
• Newest therapies and guidelines and how to put them into practice
• Modern tools and approaches for diagnosis of infectious diseases
• Treatment and prevention of infectious diseases in vulnerable populations, including the immunocompromised
• Short-course therapy for pneumonia, UTI, and other infections

NEPHROLOGY

• Acid-base interpretation
• Update on managing hypertension
• Treatment optimization for glomerulonephritis
• Current guidance on dialysis and transplantation
• Newer treatments for preventing progression of kidney disease
• New treatments of anemia of kidney disease

WOMEN’S HEALTH

• Menopause management
• Treatment of osteoporosis
• Screening for cervical and breast cancer
• Evaluation of patients with irregular menstrual periods
• Management of medical conditions in pregnant women
• Trauma-informed care
• Evaluation and management of cardiovascular disease in women

PULMONARY MEDICINE

• Case-based interpretation of pulmonary function tests
• Review of classic chest X-ray patterns of lung disease
• Novel therapies for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
• Step-care therapeutic approaches to asthma and COPD
• Diagnosis and modern treatment of pulmonary hypertension
• A practical guide to assessment of pleural effusions
• Update on management of obstructive sleep apnea
• Approach to the patient with hemoptysis, cough, and a solitary pulmonary nodule

NEUROLOGY

• Recommended approaches to common neurological complaints
• Updated strategies and guidelines for treatment of epilepsy
• New AHA/ASA guidelines for stroke management
• Updates on mechanical thrombectomy for ischemic stroke
• Anti-platelet therapy in stroke and TIA
• Treating headaches
• Diagnosis and treatment of cognitive impairment
• Evaluation of peripheral neuropathy
• Neurological red flags in primary care

GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE

• Medical and surgical therapy for obesity management
• Treatment of common geriatric conditions
• Recommendations for end-of-life care
• Case-based education to improve your mastery of dermatology, ophthalmology, and otolaryngology
• Updated approaches to hypertension and lipid care
• Mental health conditions: depression, anxiety, bipolar disease, and ADHD
• Chronic pain management, including opiate and non-opiate options
• Assessing and treating alcohol and opiate addictions
• "Can't-miss" diagnoses
• Care of the LGBTQ patient
• Disease prevention and health promotion
• Biomodulators
• Lifestyle interventions that work for challenging patients

CRITICAL CARE

• Up-to-date guidelines for the diagnosis and management of sepsis
• Medical management and circulatory support of cardiogenic shock 
• Management of mechanical ventilation and respiratory failure 
• Care of the critically ill COVID-19 patient 
• Evidence-based ICU prevention and treatment of pain, agitation, and delirium 

GASTROENTEROLOGY

State-of-the-art approaches to:

• Esophageal disorders
• Peptic ulcer disease
• Acute and chronic pancreatitis
• Chronic liver disease and its complications
• Chronic viral hepatitis
• Acute and chronic diarrhea
• Inflammatory bowel disease

Updated guidelines and therapies:

• New guidelines for ascites and SBP
• New guidelines for UGI bleed
• Updates on necrotizing pancreatitis
• Management of cirrhotic patient with bleeding and thrombosis
• Resumption of anti-platelet and anticoagulants after UGI bleeding
• New treatments for Hep C
• Expanded treatments for GERD and IBS

ENDOCRINOLOGY

The latest in diabetes care:

• Review of most recent ADA guidelines for diabetes
• Update on SGLT2 inhibitors, Glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1 RA), and novel agents for type 2 diabetes including long-acting insulins
• Prevention of diabetes micro- and macrovascular complications
• Update on new technologies to help manage diabetes

State-of-the-art diagnosis and management of:

• Thyroid disorders 
• Calcium cases
• Adrenal cases
• Pituitary disorders
• Transgender care
• Male hypogonadism

RHEUMATOLOGY

The most up-to-date, evidence-based approaches to:

• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Spondyloarthritis
• Scleroderma/Myositis
• Vasculitis
• Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Gout
• Osteoarthritis and soft tissue disorders

HEMATOLOGY

• Current ITP guidelines
• Recommendations for anticoagulation agents and duration of treatment
• Strategies for treatment of sickle cell anemia
• Management of coagulation abnormalities in pregnancy
• Recognition of HLH and atypical HUS