Advances, Updates, Guidelines, and Best Practices in General Internal Medicine – Expressly for Specialists
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.
* Date of original release: January 29 – February 2, 2024
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
Discuss the basis for current treatment guidelines, diagnostic recommendations, and management strategies for diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, ischemic heart disease, heart failure, chronic kidney disease, memory loss, opioid use, sleep disorders, stroke management, anemia, anticoagulant use, and many other specific conditions
Anticipate and manage potential adverse effects of therapies prescribed by other specialists
Assess the relative efficacy and cross-specialty implications of innovative biomodulator therapies
Implement treatment plans in specific, common clinical situations that cut across specialties, such as chronic pain, screening, health promotion
Design more effective clinical approaches based on the most recent literature supporting innovative interventions offered across a range of specialties
Assess the added value of newly offered diagnostic and screening tests
Recognize and implement current disease prevention and screening guidelines
Innovate your own clinical care based on a broader understanding of the management strategies and clinical decision-making of colleagues, including the rationale for specific modalities and medications
Apply new patient interaction skills
Address how your work and the work of your colleagues can have a more positive impact in the context of equity, inclusion, and unaddressed disparities
Employ treatments and interventions provided by primary care internal medicine and specialist physicians
Describe how climate change can affect health
HARVARD UPDATES IN GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE FOR SPECIALISTS 2024