MER Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Cardio/Neuro/Onc/Pulm 2025

Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Cardio/Neuro/Onc/Pulm 2025

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MER Internal medicine conefernces

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to:

• – Implement treatment strategies reflective of recent guidelines and current evidence based medicine for heart failure
• – Recognize the clinical manifestations of valvular heart disease
• – List pharmacologic options for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation and the benefits of each
• – Perform a cardiovascular workup
• – Discuss evidence-based management options for Alzheimer’s disease
• – Evaluate weakness and recognize cardinal features of Parkinson’s disease as well as other movement disorders
• – Utilize history and physical examination to distinguish weakness from non-specific symptoms
• – Describe the differential diagnosis of headaches and migraines
• – Diagnose and manage patients with asthma
• – Design treatment strategies reflective of current evidence-based medicine for common respiratory infections
• – Describe the current therapeutic management of COPD
• – Discuss diagnosis and screening strategies as well as treatment plans for lung nodules and lung cancer
• – Identify clinical practices shown to prevent cancer
• – Discuss the diagnostic approach to the patient with suspected cancer
• – Evaluate and manage risks of the cancer survivor
• – Describe the mechanism of action of new antiplatelet agents