'Regroup, reenergize, refocus': ACP brings back live Internal Medicine Meeting
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The ACP Internal Medicine Meeting is taking place in person and virtually this year from April 28 to April 30.
The theme is “Mastering Medicine Together.” It is the largest annual gathering of internal medicine clinicians in the U.S., according to an ACP press release. Healio Primary Care will have staff onsite in Chicago covering the meeting live.
"Internal medicine physicians have been on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Elisa Choi, MD, FACP, FIDSA, an ACP Board of Governors chair-elect, told Healio. “It has been a difficult 2-plus years. This is a chance to regroup, reenergize and refocus."
The meeting was last held in person in 2019. Due to COVID-19, the meeting was canceled in 2020 and held virtually in 2021.
"The benefits of an in-person meeting are huge, including the opportunity for in-person learning, collaboration, live sessions, and special events like Doctor’s Dilemma, Annals of Internal Medicine Story Slam, abstract competitions and hands-on learning in ACP’s Clinical Skills Center, featuring a collection of activities offering physicians hands-on learning and simulation models focused on office-based procedures, examination skills and assessment and interpretation skills,” Choi said.
Upwards of 200 sessions will be offered onsite, with more than 100 hours of sessions available via livestream and more than 170 hours of sessions recorded for virtual attendees, according to the release. The virtual component was added to “include everyone in internal medicine in our meeting,” Choi added.
The presentations will cover a range of topics, from diversity and inclusion to genetics, while featuring the latest research in internal medicine.
At the end of the meeting, Ryan D. Mire, MD, FACP, a primary care physician at Heritage Medical Associates in Nashville, Tennessee, will become the president of ACP, and Sue S. Bornstein, MD, FACP, the executive director of the Texas Medical Home Initiative, will become the chair of the ACP’s Board of Regents.
Links to register for the meeting are available here. Check our ACP meeting page for coverage throughout the week.
Reference:
American College of Physicians hosts nation’s largest annual gathering of internal medicine doctors. https://www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom/american-college-of-physicians-hosts-nations-largest-annual-gathering-of-internal-medicine-doctors-0. Published April 14, 2022. Accessed April 25, 2022.