The State of the Art in Internal Medicine

Innovations and New Practices in Internal Medicine 2024 will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies.

Overview

This program provides a comprehensive update of the most important changes now impacting Internal Medicine and guidance on how to incorporate these changes into your clinical practice to improve patient outcomes.

Practical, Fast-Paced, Online Education

This live streaming educational experience is fast paced, relevant to the current healthcare environment, and draws upon real-life cases. The course is designed and led by Harvard Medical School’s clinical faculty who are leaders in their respective fields and are instrumental in bringing these novel developments to clinical medicine. It offers updates and advances in diagnostic and treatment approaches, covering the broad spectrum of internal medicine specialties: 

  • Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Pulmonology
  • Oncology
  • Dermatology
  • Addiction Medicine
  • Endocrinology
  • Geriatrics
  • Rheumatology
  • Gastroenterology
  • Neurology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Nephrology
  • Allergy/Immunology
  • Women’s Health
  • Psychiatry 

Guidance to Improve Diagnosis, Treatment, and Clinical Outcomes

Highlights of this program include:

  • Comprehensive updates on new anticoagulants and their antidotes
  • Algorithms for the use of diabetes medications
  • Update on technologic aids for diabetes management
  • Care of transgender and gender diverse patients
  • Medical and surgical therapy for obesity management
  • Latest developments on the use of SGLT-2 inhibitors in heart failure
  • Advances in percutaneous aortic and mitral valve therapies
  • Current and future role of AI in medicine
  • Exercise for health 2024
  • Management of long COVID
  • Novel therapies for lipid management
  • Recognizing dermatologic conditions in skin of color
  • Up-to-date guidance for management of opioid use disorder
  • Optimal management of irritable bowel syndrome
  • The latest in cancer screening and what the internist needs to know about cancer immunotherapy
  • Emerging therapies for Alzheimer’s disease and depression
  • Best practices for responsible antibiotic use
  • Update in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
  • What's new in vaccines for 2024

For full agenda, click here.
 

Optimized for Remote Education

The 2024 program has been enhanced for distance learning. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 60 days after the conclusion of the course.