Harvard Update in Internal Medicine 2025

* WARNING this course is primarily in English, with subtitle translation support in four languages: English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Update in Internal Medicine LIVE STREAMING • December 7-12, 2025

Updates, Advances and Best Practices in All Areas of Medicine

The landscape of internal medicine is evolving rapidly, presenting practicing clinicians with increasingly complex challenges to maintain cutting-edge patient care. In response to such challenges, we developed Update in Internal Medicine over three decades ago and continue to improve it based on attendee feedback and current trends to provide you with the latest updates, advancements and best practices to optimize patient care across all areas of medicine.

Reasons to Attend
Internists, family medicine physicians, specialists, PAs, and NPs from around the world attend this intensive, highly rated course to gain the latest updates, clinical advances, and best practices to enhance patient care across a wide range of conditions.
Featuring over 80 dynamic sessions — including interactive lectures, case-based reviews, and ask-the-experts panels led by the foremost authorities — this program delivers in-depth coverage of today’s most pressing and timely medical topics, including:

Acute Coronary Syndrome
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
Asthma and COPD
Cancer Care in 2025
Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
Chronic Kidney Disease
Clinician Burnout
Common Orthopedic Injuries

Diagnosis and Management of Anemia
Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression
Direct Oral Anticoagulants
Emerging Infections
End-of-Life Care
Hypertension
Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Leadership: Everyone Can Lead

Management of Atrial Fibrillation
Medical and Surgical Management of Obesity
Proteinuria
Type 2 Diabetes
Understanding the Microbiome
Updates on Smoking Cessation

Scores of attendees continue to comment on the excellence of this course and the fact that this is indeed the best medicine course they have ever attended! “We don’t know how you do it, but this course gets better each year!”

Learning Objectives

At the end of this course, you will be able to:

Integrate new knowledge and research findings into the evaluation and treatment of common and uncommon medical disorders.
Apply up-to-date screening recommendations for breast, ovarian, lung, colon and prostate cancer.
Treat patients with or at risk for diabetes.
Interpret liver function tests and understand advances made in the treatment of infectious hepatitis.

Develop strategies to prevent and/or treat atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Provide state-of-the-art care to patients with a wide range of disorders commonly seen in the primary care provider’s practice.
Identify strategies to optimize the impact of lifestyle interventions in the treatment of obesity.
Inform and inspire colleagues to prevent burnout and lead in effective ways.

The Harvard Update in Internal Medicine 2025 is best for busy clinicians—internal medicine physicians, subspecialists, hospitalists, family physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants—who want a comprehensive, CME‑accredited review of the latest evidence and best practices across all areas of adult medicine, delivered in a flexible virtual format.
Who Should Attend

Internal medicine physicians and hospitalists needing broad updates across multiple subspecialties.
Family medicine doctors and general practitioners who manage diverse adult patient populations.
Subspecialists (cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious disease, etc.) who want refreshers outside their core specialty.
Nurse practitioners and physician assistants working in primary care or hospital medicine.
Residents and fellows preparing for board exams or transitioning into independent practice.

What You’ll Learn

Comprehensive updates in all areas of medicine: cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, oncology, nephrology, pulmonology, rheumatology, and more.
Evidence‑based best practices for diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of common and complex conditions.
Interactive case discussions with audience‑response questions to reinforce learning.
Guideline updates from leading Harvard and Massachusetts General Hospital faculty.
Practical pearls for improving patient outcomes in both outpatient and inpatient settings.

 
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