ACP meeting touches on latest clinical topics with ‘world-class speakers’

Key takeaways:

• The meeting features more than 200 sessions onsite, and more than 100 hours of sessions will be available virtually.
• Onsite activities include clinical workshops and simulation models of office-based procedures.

This year’s ACP Internal Medicine Meeting is taking place in person in San Diego and virtually from April 27 to April 29.

According to an ACP press release, the conference — which brings back last year’s theme of “Mastering Medicine Together” — will offer more than 200 sessions onsite, while virtual attendees can access more than 100 hours of live-streamed sessions and more than 170 hours of recordings.

“We have 3 days packed with world-class speakers, and it will be great to interact with them and see lots of friends, too,” Alan Dow, MD, MSHA, FACP, a Ruth and Seymour Perlin Professor of Medicine and Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Healio Primary Care Peer Perspective Board member, told Healio. “And, I hear the weather in San Diego is pretty great.”

The sessions will address important clinical topics, including homelessness, updates on COVID-19, policy issues and telehealth, the release said.

The meeting will feature a clinical skills center, where attendees can engage in hands-on learning through simulation models focusing on office-based procedures and examination skills. Other offerings include popular learning formants, such as “Clinical Pearls” and clinical workshops, as well as traditional conference events like Doctor’s Dilemma, a medical knowledge competition.

The keynote speaker, Vineet Arora, MD, MACP, a Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago Medicine, will kick off the conference with her opening ceremony speech on “Lead from where you stand: How to advocate for your patients, your profession, and yourself,” according to the release.

At the conclusion of the meeting, Omar T. Atiq, MD, FACP, a professor in the department of internal medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, will become president of ACP, and Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, MACP, SFHM, an associate professor of medicine at the University of New Mexico, will become the chair of the ACP’s Board of Regents.

Live onsite coverage for this year’s meeting, as well as stories and videos from past ACP conferences, can be found here.

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-1. Published April 18, 2023. Accessed April 18, 2023.