MER Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Cardio/Neuro/Onc/Pulm 2025

Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Cardio/Neuro/Onc/Pulm 2025

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MER Internal medicine conefernces

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be better able to:
– Implement treatment strategies reflective of recent guidelines and current evidence based
medicine 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 of
each
– 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 other
movement 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 respiratory
infections
– Describe the current therapeutic management of COPD
– Discuss diagnosis and screening strategies as well as treatment plans for lung nodules and lung
cancer
– 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