American College of Physicians Washington Chapter Annual Meeting 2025

1. Overview
The American College of Physicians Washington Chapter Annual Meeting 2025 provides a comprehensive update for internists on the latest clinical guidelines and practices across multiple subspecialties. The program features expert-led sessions on diagnostic interpretation, complex case management, health equity, and emerging therapies to optimize patient care in both outpatient and inpatient settings.
Course Date: Nov 7th & 8th, 2025
2. Learning Objectives

Interpret essential diagnostic studies, including EKGs, continuous glucose monitors, and pulmonary function tests, to guide clinical decision-making.

Evaluate and manage complex and atypical patient presentations across subspecialties, such as rheumatology, infectious diseases, and nephrology.

Implement evidence-based updates in outpatient and inpatient medicine, including the management of obesity, COPD/asthma, and frailty.

Integrate principles of justice, health equity, and gender-affirming care into everyday clinical practice.

Assess rare and challenging clinical masquerades, such as neurosyphilis presenting as encephalitis or cardiac tamponade presenting as syncope.

3. Target Audience

Best for internal medicine physicians and residents who want updates on subspecialty guidelines, health equity, and complex diagnostic challenges.

4. Topics

01 MedEd Leveraging Direct Observation to Improve Clinic Efficiency

02 Interpreting EKGs

03 Medication Abortion

04 Frailty Diagnosis and Management

05 Gender Affirming Care

06 Dermatology

07 Cholestatic Liver Injury in Chronic Portal Vein Thrombosis

08 Traveler’s Fever and Leptospirosis

09 TB or Not TB The Quandary of Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)

10 How to Care for the Elderly More Safely

11 Outpatient Articles That Changed My Practice

12 Resident Jeopardy Competition

13 John Vassall Annual Lecture for Justice & Equity in Medicine – Fortifying Health Equity

14 COPD Asthma & Story Slam

15 Musculoskeletal Complaints Workshop

16 Interpreting Pulmonary Function Tests

17 Continuous Glucose Monitors

18 Hepatitis B Update

19 Advocacy 101 From Social Media to Testimony

20 Incorporating Health Equity into Everyday Practice

21 Syphilis Masquerade- A Case of Demyelinating Encephalitis Presenting as Neurosyphilis

22 When Seizures Aren’t Seizures A Case of Cardiac Tamponade-Induced Convulsive Syncope

23 When Stroke Isn’t the Culprit

24 Rheumatology Potpourri

25 Turn the Beat Around- Reevaluating Rhythm Management for Atrial Fibrillation

26 Hormonal Hyperventilation An Uncommon Cause of Confusion in ESRD

27 When Constipation Relief Turns Risky Bisacodyl-Induced Ischemic Colitis

28 Unmasking Blastocystis Diarrhea

29 Inpatient Medicine Updates and Q&A

30 Updates in Obesity Medicine

31 Nephrology for the Generalist

32 Nutrition

33 Teaching Evidenced-Based Medicine in a Busy Clinical Practice

34 Infectious Disease

35 Story Slam – Henry Mroch, MD FACP

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