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Associates, Residents, and Fellows in Training

• How to Get Published

Cardiology

• Cardiovascular Disease After 80 Years of Age
• Update in Cardiology
• Valvular Heart Disease: Essentials for the Internist
• Arrhythmias for the Internist
• Noninvasive Testing for Coronary Artery Disease
• Peripheral Vascular Disease: Assessment and Treatment
• Heart Disease in Women: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications and Recent Trials
• Congestive Heart Failure: Diagnostic and Management Update
• Practitioners' Morning Report: Cardiology
• Bacterial Endocarditis Prophylaxis: Revised Guideline
• Acute Coronary Syndromes: Risk Assessment and Management Update
• Chest Pain: Evaluation
• Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease: Evaluation and Treatment

Career and Professionalism

• Enhancing the Joy of Medicine Through Volunteerism
• Health Care for the Homeless
• The Anatomy of a Medical Malpractice Suit
• Thinking of Part-Time Medicine?
• Balancing Work and Family
• Disclosing Your Super Powers and Your Secret Identity How to Be Physician, Parent, Spouse, Etc., in the 21st Century
• Doing Research in the Office: Professionalism and Pitfalls
• Ethical Challenges: Being an Advocate When the Patient or a Colleague Is Problematic
• Weathering the Perfect Storm: Life Preservers for Physicians
• C. Wesley Eisele Lecture

Clinical Pearls

• Clinical Pearls: Gastroenterology and Nephrology
• Clinical Pearls: Dermatology and Sports Medicine
• Clinical Pearls: Neurology and Pulmonary Diseases

Clinical Pharmacology

• Best Drug or Best Advertised Drug?
• Monitoring and Managing Chronic Medications
• Treatment of Chronic Pain: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
• Designer Drugs: The Perfect Drug for Each Patient
• Top Ten Medication Errors

Complimentry and Alternative Medicine

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine: What Are Patients Getting for 8 Billion Dollars?

Disaster Preparedness

• Chemical, Biologic, Radiologic, and Nuclear (CBRN) Terrorism: Preparation for an Ongoing Threat
• Disaster Preparedness: Beyond the First Response

Endocrinology and Diabetes

• The Metabolic Syndrome, Dyslipidemia and Cardiovascular Disease
• Update in Endocrinology and Diabetes
• Osteoporosis and Other Metabolic Bone Disease
• Transitioning the Diabetic Patient Between Oral Agents and Insulin
• Managing the Complications of Diabetes
• Practical Issues in Diabetes Care
• Exciting Research Advances: Therapeutic Strategies in the Treatment of Obesity and Interventional Approaches to Heart Disease
• Menopause/Manopause
• Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) and Pre-Diabetes
• Subclinical Thyroid Disease
• Outpatient Management of Diabetes
• New Therapies in 2007 for Diabetes
• Team-Based Care for Diabetes

End-Of-Life and Palliative Care

• Strategies for Culturally Effective End-of-Life Care
• Palliative Care: The Quality Imperative
• Doctors, Death, and Dignity: Life Sustaining Treatments at the End of Life
• Capacity, Competence, and Surrogate Decision Making in End-of-Life Care

Ethics and Health Policy

• Pay for Performance: Ethical Issues and Unintended Consequences
• The Medical Home: Building a Financially Sustainable Delivery Structure that Emphasizes Patient-Centered, Physician-Guided Care
• When Will Medicare Begin Paying Physicians for Reporting on Quality and Cost? And What Will It Mean for You
• Washington Report: Key Health Policy Issues Concerning Internal Medicine
• Fixing the Dysfunctional Payment System: What Is Wrong with the Way MEdicare and Other Payers pay Internists and What Can Be Done About It?
• Medicare: Not Your Parents' Program? The Status of Modernization Efforts
• Special Report on Hot Issues in Health Policy

Gastroenterology and Hepatology

• An Evidence-Based Approach to the Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Persistent Liver Function Test (LFT) Abnormalities Without Overt Liver or Hepatobiliary Disease
• Update in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
• Reflux Disease: When Is It More than Heartburn and a PPI?
• Colon Cancer Screening, Surveillance, and Prevention
• Cirrhosis and Its Complications: Role of the Generalist
• Chronic Hepatitis B and C: Role of the Generalist in Diagnosis and Treatment
• Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease: A Case-Based Approach

Health Issues Related to Age and Gender

• Women's Health Concerns - - - Ages 16 to 50
• Infectious Disease Issues in Women
• Update in Geriatrics
• Ten Rules for Rounding on Hospitalized Older Adults
• Women's Health Concerns After Age 50
• Guidelines and the Older Patient
• Pregnant and Nursing Patients: What the Internist Needs to Know
• 20-Minute Medicare Exam
• Dementia Management in Primary Care
• Contraception for Women With Medical Problems
• Geriatric Prescribing and Medicare
• What's Different About Primary Care for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Patients?
• Adults Beware! Children Are in the Building: Childhood Infections and How They Manifest in Adults
• Update in Women's Health
• Urology for the Internist

Hematology

• Hematology Clinical Challenges: Too Many Cells - Polycythemia, Thrombocythemia, and Leukocytosis
• Venous Thromboembolism (VTE): Prophylaxis and Management
• Iron: Too Little, Too Much
• Update in Hematology
• Anemia: A Case-Based Approach

Hospital Medicine

• Taking Quality Improvement to the Front lines: Implementation Strategies that Work
• Core Competencies in Hospital Medicine: Impact on Internal Medicine Residency Training and Practice
• Update in Hospital Medicine

Infectious Diseases

• Critters Big and Small: Diseases Associated with Animal Bites, Insect Vectors, and Water Exposure
• Nosocomial Infections
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases
• HIV Update
• Update in Infectious Diseases
• Breaking News in Adult Vaccines
• Community-Acquired Respiratory Infections
• Avian Influenza: The Coming Pandemic
• Travel Medicine: Getting Your Patients Ready
• Staphylococcus aureus Infections: What's New?

Medical Practice Management

• Practical Steps to Adopting EHRs and Developing a Paperless Office
• Practice Finance for Physicians: Monitoring, Assessing, and Improving Your Bottom Line
• Coding and Billing 101: Getting Paid for What You Do
• Small Practice Management: Thriving in the 21st Century
• Proper Coding and Compliance: Maximizing Revenue While Playing by the Rules
• You Can Save Two Minutes Per Patient: Improving Efficiency and Enhancing Quality
• Innovation in Practice: Exploring the Impact of Practice Redesign, Quality Improvement, and Information Technology on the Ecomonics of Physician Offices

Medical Student Programs

• Getting Through the Match
• Brush Up for the Boards: Medical Students
• Stump the Professor
• Ethics and Professionalism for the Medical Student

Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind

• Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Diabetes, Psychiatry, and Stroke
• Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Cardiology, Rheumatology, and Sleep Disorders
• Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Cancer Screening, Geriatrics, and Gynecology

Nephrology and Hypertension

• Practitioners' Morning Report: Nephrology
• When Has Enough Blood Pressure Medicine Been Prescribed?
• Hypertension: Difficult to Manage
• Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease
• Chronic Kidney Disease: The "Other" Cardiovascular Risk Factor
• Primary Care of the Transplant Patient
• Update in Nephrology
• Statins in Chronic Renal Disease
• Office Uronephrology and Imaging

Neurology

• Approach to the Dizzy Patient
• Neurology for the Non-Neurologist
• TIA and Stroke: Treatment and Prevention, Including Carotid Stenting
• Update in Neurology
• Accurate Diagnosis and Treatment of Movement Disorders
• Headache and Blurred Vision

Nutrition

• Obesity: What Really Works and Who to Treat
• Nutrition and Diets: The Role in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

Oncology

• Hereditary Cancer Predisposition
• Update in Oncology
• Breast Cancer: Screening and Current and Emerging Prevention and Treatment Strategies
• Prostate Cancer: Defining the Expanding Role of the Internist
• Lung Cancer and Colon Cancer: Progress at Last?

Opthamology and Otolaryngology

• ENT: Diagnosis and Treatment of Common Problems

Perioperative Medicine and Consultation

• "Consult Talk" (Pre- and Post-Operative Medical Consultation)
• Preoperative Evaluation: An Evidence-Based Approach
• Update in Perioperative Medicine

Psychiatry

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in Adults: The Internist's Role
• The Difficult Patient
• Eating Disorders, Anorexia, and Bulimia: What Is the Internist's Role?
• Psychiatry for the Internist: Issues in Managing Patients with Depression or Anxiety

Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care

• Pulmonary Hypertension: A Primer for the Internist
• Asthma: Inhalers and Beyond
• Practitioners' Morning Report: Pulmonary and Critical Care
• Best Practices in the Critically Ill Patient
• Between Exacerbations: Optimal Management of the Patient with Stable COPD
• Update in Pulmonary Medicine
• Sleep Issues: Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It

Rheumatology and Allergy Immunology

• Arthrocentesis and Soft Tissue Injections
• Update in Allergy & Immunology
• Allergen Immunotherapy (Desensitization): A Primary Treatment for Allergic Disease
• Hyperuricemia and Gout: Who, Why, and How to Treat?
• Arthritis: How to Recognize the Pattern of Arthritis as a Specific Clue to Diagnosing Systemic Disease
• Update in Rheumatology
• What the Internist Should Know About Co-Managing Patients Receiving the Newer Immunosuppressive Therapies
• Rheumatoid Arthritis: I Recognized It Early, Now What? (and Why?)
• Exciting Research Advances: Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and the Biology of Longevity and Aging
• What to Do About the Pain of Osteoarthritis: "My Doctor Says to Exercise, but It Hurts My Knees"
• Low Back Pain
• Systemic Vasculitides: A Basic Primer for Non-Rheumatologists
• How Can It Hurt So Much and Not Be Arthritis?

Additional Topics

• Opening Ceremony
• History of Medicine I: The Plague, Epilepsy, Coronary Disease, and Smallpox
• Nicholas E. Davies Memorial Scholar Award Lecture: "Building an Enduring Edifice of Character"
• Improving Patient Care: Adapting Clinical Practice Guidelines
• Grand Rounds: The Professor in Action
• History of Medicine II: AIDS, Ancient Origins of a New Syndrome, Endocarditis, and Stroke
• The Great Debates
• Hollywood Looks at Women Physicians
• Presentation Skills for Physicians: Making Your Next Teaching Presentation Go Better Than Your Last
• Literature in Medicine: Coping with Plagues
• Sports Physical: Pre-Participation Examination
• Health Literacy: How We Can Help Our Patients Understand How to Take Care of Their Health
• Intimate Partner Violence: Why Should a Busy Internist Bother?
• Update In General Internal Medicine
• Translating Evidence into Practice and Overcoming Clinical Inertia: Motivating Ourselves and Our Patients
• Internal Medicine 2007 Highlights: Key Messages You'll Want to Take Home and Doctor's Dilemma: The Finals
• Exercise Prescriptions and Rehabilitation Medicine
• Moving Beyond Disease Management for the Primary Care Physician