Advances, Updates, Guidelines, and Best Practices in General Internal Medicine—Expressly for Specialists

Updates in General Internal Medicine for Specialists will be held online January 24-28, 2022, using studio-level live streaming and curated question and answer sessions for every presentation.

Overview

In this unique program, Harvard Medical School’s leading clinical faculty, representing more than 30 fields of medicine and surgery, share updates and provide recommendations to ensure you are current with the recent advances in both general internal medicine and select specialties. General Internal Medicine for Specialists covers the clinical breadth of internal medicine and the working knowledge specialists need in order to understand the most important advances outside your field of expertise.

Whether you are a psychiatrist or pathologist, cardiologist or anesthesiologist, surgeon or hospitalist, you can rely on this program for updates and advances that impact day-to-day practice, clinical decisions, and patient care.

2022 Updates, Strategies, and Tools to Improve Patient Care

The program’s curriculum provides broad and inclusive content ranging from clinical controversies to specific new and innovative therapies. General Internal Medicine for Specialists was developed by experienced practitioners, and sessions are presented by Harvard faculty and select guest speakers dedicated to peer-to-peer education. They will succinctly and effectively summarize material and provide focused updates, emphasizing specific recommendations for clinical practice and improved patient care.

Topics covered in the 2022 program include:

• Ischemic heart disease
• The ongoing impact of COVID-19
• Hepatitis
• Reducing fractures
• Stroke
• Chronic obstructive lung disease
• Diabetes management
• Women’s health
• Anticoagulation
• Endocrinology
• The neurologic exam
• Cognitive decline
• Travel medicine
• Congestive heart failure
• Common eye problems
• Diseases of the foregut
• Preoperative evaluation
• Breast cancer
• Differential dx of polyarthritis

• Atrial fibrillation
• Lipid management
• Dermatology
• Osteoporosis management
• Asthma
• Renal medicine
• Anemia
• Basic orthopedics
• Antiplatelet agents
• Sleep disorders
• ENT
• Managing obesity
• Headaches
• Allergy medicine
• Thyroid disorders
• Hypertension
• Cancer screening
• Non-opioid and opioid pain management
• Lower back pain

Whatever your specialty, you can rely on General Internal Medicine for Specialists for practical updates that ensure a working knowledge of current internal medicine practices and a familiarity with critical advances across a broad range of specialties. The faculty will address the ongoing impact of COVID-19 pandemic. This program is designed to meet the needs of the full range of specialists, provide focused updates, and cover a vast amount of information efficiently and effectively, including:

• Current guidelines and management strategies for diabetes, cardiovascular disease, lipid disorders, hypertension, chronic lung disease, sleep disturbances, cognitive decline, chronic pain
• Strategies for assessing and managing interacting comorbidities
• Potential adverse interactions between medications you prescribe and those prescribed by others
• Focused examination techniques: basic orthopedics and the neurologic examination
• Up-to-date interventional therapies in cardiology, rheumatology, gastroenterology, neurology, dermatology and more
• Inter-specialty clinical decision-making
• The most current evidence-based screening and prevention practices
• Breakthrough innovations with proven patient benefit
• How medical practices have changed as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic

Learn from the Best Clinical Faculty at Harvard Medical School

This program is led by active expert practitioners and committed teachers, each with significant experience both in the care of patients and in peer-to-peer presentations to colleagues. The Harvard faculty and select guest speakers will cover state-of-the-art advances and recommendations. You will take home relevant, up-to-date, and evidence-based strategies and tools to improve your patient care.

Optimized for Remote Education

The 2022 program has been enhanced for distance learning. Our speakers will present from a studio setting to ensure the best audiovisual quality. In addition to being live streamed, all sessions will be recorded and made available to participants for online viewing for 60 days after the end of the course.