Medical Education Resources Internal Medicine for Primary Care Cardio Neuro Onc Pulm 2025

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 basedmedicine 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 ofeach
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 othermovement 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 respiratoryinfections
Describe the current therapeutic management of COPD
Discuss diagnosis and screening strategies as well as treatment plans for lung nodules and lungcancer
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

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Monday, June 2, 2025

7:00 am Registration

Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.

7:30 am – 8:30 am – Cardiology

Office Management of Heart Failure

Etiologies and stages of heart failure; Differentiating heart failure with reduced EF (HFrEF) and heart failure with preserved EF (HFpEF); Work-up and pharmacological treatment options; Cardiac amyloidosis; Importance of end-of-life care

8:30 am – 9:30 am – Cardiology

Primary Care Approach to Valvular Heart Disease

Comprehensive review of the clinical presentation choice and the appropriate diagnostic testing and guidance for choosing medical or surgical intervention; Approved indications for catheter based interventions will also be reviewed

9:30 am – 9:40 am

Coffee Break

9:40 am – 10:40 am – Cardiology

Update on Atrial Fibrillation for the Primary Care Provider

New methods of detection, rate vs rhythm control, new options for stroke prevention

10:40 am – 11:40 am – Neurology

Alzheimer’s & Other Dementias

Definition; statistics; neurological changes of normal aging; pathology; etiological theories; vascular dementias; investigations; social issues; symptomatic treatment; research therapies

11:40 am – 12:40 pm – Neurology

Parkinson’s Disease & Other Movement Disorders

Epidemiology; cardinal features; secondary features; pathology; neurochemistry; differential diagnosis; treatment; complication; other movement disorders; neuroleptic- induced movement disorders; chorea

12:40 pm

Session Adjourns

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

7:00 am Registration

Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.

7:30 am – 8:30 am – Neurology

Evaluating Weakness

Using the history and physical examination to distinguish weakness from non-specific symptoms; characteristics of neurological diseases that produce weakness; presentations of representative diseases of the nervous system

8:30 am – 9:30 am – Neurology

Headaches & Migraines

Basic headache mechanisms; headache history: characteristics, precipitating factors, medical conditions; migraine: common tension, classic, treatment, complicated, cluster, sinus; trigeminal neuralgia; Giant Cell Arteritis; brain tumor; subarachnoid hemorrhage; emergency room treatment

9:30 am – 9:40 am

Coffee Break

9:40 am – 10:40 am – Cardiology

Cardiac Testing for the Non-cardiologist

Uncomplicating the menu choices; Selecting the right test for the right patient and making sense of the results

10:40 am – 11:40 am – Pulmonology

Asthma

The medical impact of asthma; fundamental role of inflammation, with possible scarring and irreversible loss of lung function; practical points of diagnosis; goal setting management based on levels of severity; risk factors for mortality and treatment in the acute setting; management options for the difficult to control asthmatic patient

11:40 am – 12:40 pm – Pulmonology

Controversies in the Treatment of Common Respiratory Infections

Acute and chronic bronchitis; pneumonia (community versus hospital-acquired); role of the Pneumonia Severity Index score in determining indication for hospitalization; cost- effective use of antibiotics; clinical significance of drug resistance; guidelines for management

12:40 pm

Session Adjourns

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

7:00 am Registration

Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.

7:30 am – 8:30 am – Pulmonology

COPD

Definition; pathophysiology; early detection and intervention; risk reduction; management update including new modalities (including lung volume reduction surgery) and the role of inhaled corticosteroids and domiciliary oxygen

8:30 am – 9:30 am – Pulmonology

Lung Cancer Screening & Pulmonary Nodules

Appropriate use of the new lung cancer screening recommendations; Fleischner Society guidelines and American College of Chest Physician Lung Cancer guidelines; approach to definitive evaluation and management strategies

9:30 am – 9:40 am

Coffee Break

9:40 am – 10:40 am – Oncology

Cancer Prevention

Cancer screening and clinical practices shown to prevent cancer will be reviewed

10:40 am – 11:40 am – Oncology

Approach to the Patient with Suspected Cancer

Symptoms, signs and diagnoses that raise the suspicion of cancer will be reviewed, and an approach to evaluating these patients will be presented

11:40 am

Session Adjourns

Thursday, June 5, 2025

7:00 am Registration

Rooms booked as part of the MER room block include breakfast in the hotel dining room. Participants booked outside of the MER room block, please make breakfast arrangements on your own.

7:30 am – 8:30 am – Oncology

Management of Cancer Survivors

Medical issues related to cancer survivorship and approaches to surveillance for cancer recurrence will be reviewed

8:30 am – 9:30 am – Oncology

A Primary Care Review of New Antiplatelet Agents

Mechanisms of action, clinical indications, effectiveness, safety and peri-procedure management of current antiplatelet agents will be reviewed

9:30 am

Conference Adjourns