INTERNAL MEDICINE FOR PRIMARY CARE: CARDIOLOGY/NEUROLOGY/ONCOLOGY/ PULMONOLOGY
Lisbon, Portugal – InterContinental Lisbon
June 2 – 5, 2025

Target Audience

This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals with updates in primary care medicine

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