Diabetes Treatments

MTP 012 Diabetes: A Rational Approach to the Management of Hyperglycemia Group Visits for Patients with Diabetes (Not Recorded) What about diabetes? …

Selected Courses by Day

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 7:00 - 8:00 am
MTP 003 Commonly Seen Arrhythmias: Approach to Diagnosis and Management

Ballroom A Ezra A Amsterdam, MD
Management strategies for atrial fibrillation PVCs best approaches
for palpitations

MTP 011 Subclinical Hypo/Hyperthyroidism
Room 146 C David S Cooper, MD
Defining subclinical hypo/hyperthyroidism adverse effects of the
disorderwhom to treat?

MTP 012 Diabetes: A Rational Approach to the Management of
Hyperglycemia
Room 202 Robert E Ratner, MD
New treatment algorithms for type 2 diabetes: Why? Adding insulin to oral
medications

MTP 043 Controversies in Prostate Cancer: Screening, Evaluation of the
Rising PSA, and
Room 146 A Effects of Anti-Androgen Treatment also offered May 15, 8:15
am, room 143
Oliver Sartor, MD
Who should get PSA screening, and at what age? The rising PSA in patients
w/o prostate cancer

MTP 084 Impact of New Immunizations
Room 152 Robert H Hopkins, MD
Vaccination recommendations for pneumococcus, meningococcus, pertussis,
varicella zoster, and HPV in adolescents and adults human flu and avian
flu prevention strategies for skeptical
patients

PN 023 Implementing a Patient-Centered Medical Home: Impact on
Internists and Patients
Room 206 Michael S Barr, MD, MBA; Dawn Bazarko, RN, MPH; L Gregory
Pawlson, MD, MPH
What is the patient-centered medical home concept and what does this imply
for office redesign? How can this model be used to improve the quality of
care?

PN 042 Survivors Guide to Performance Measurement and Pay-for-
Performance P4P
Room 146 B Alice G Gosfield, JD; Rodney Hornbake, MD; Kevin B Weiss, MD
How to avoid inefficiencies in reporting and save money Key areas of
performance measurement to address in your practice, and how

PR 001 Practitioners Morning Report: Pulmonary Diseases
Room 209 AB Cheryl W OMalley, MD; Steven E Weinberger, MD
The practicing clinicians version of the residency tradition Learn from
master clinician-teachers as they approach challenging cases presented to
them as unknowns

UD 012 Update in Allergy and Immunology
Ballroom C John S Sundy, MD, PhD

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 8:15 - 9:15 am
MTP 004 How Do I Assess the Patient with Cardiac Disease Who Is to
Undergo Noncardiac
Ballroom A Surgery?
Geno J Merli, MD
Which
patients undergoing noncardiac surgery are at risk for perioperative
morbidity and mortality? What perioperative tests should be done in these
patients to stratify risk?

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 8:15 - 9:15 am continued

MTP 039 Urinary Incontinence in Women
Room146 B Catherine A Matthews, MD
The different types of incontinence in women role of urologic
testing treatment options

MTP 052 What the General Internist Should Know About HIV
Room 206 Princy N Kumar, MD
When should acute HIV infection be suspected? What should the internist
know about highly active antiretroviral therapy HAART?

MTP 069 Approach to Latent TB and MAI Mycobacterium avium-
Intracellulare in an
Room 146 C Immunocompetent Host 2008 Massachusetts Chapter Lecturer
Jeffrey Glassroth, MD
What are the 3 prototypical forms of pulmonary MAI most often encountered
in immunocompetent hosts? What are the indications for treatment of latent
tuberculosis infection LTBI, and the treatment options?

MTP 087 Thieves Market - Fascinating Cases Not Recorded
Room 202 David R Scrase, MD
How does my clinical decision-making on interesting and unusual cases
compare to that of other
internists? How can my interesting cases become a
teaching tool for internists everywhere?

MTP 090 TIA and Stroke
Room 152 Nina J Solenski, MD
What is the best diagnostic imaging strategy for stroke and TIA? How should
patients with TIA be further evaluated and treated? What are indications
for admission? When is carotid artery stenting appropriate?

MTP 109 Common Psychiatric Problems that Internists Manage
Room 147 Heidi Combs, MD; Genevieve L Pagalilauan, MD
Recognizing and treating bipolar disorder The best approach to a
patient with somatization or a somatoform disorder Treatment of common
personality disorders

MTP 126 Negotiation Skills for Women Physicians
Room 145 B Michele Cyr, MD
In what contexts does a woman physician benefit from negotiating? What
kinds of self-assessment and background research should be done to prepare?
What are the best techniques and strategies?

SS 001 Dermatology: Treatment Pearls Not Recorded also offered May
15, 4:30 pm,
Room 151 Kathryn Schwarzenberger, MD Ballroom A
What are the therapeutic approaches for common dermatologic complaints and
diagnoses? What are the indications for referral?

UD
002 Update in Endocrinology
Ballroom C Janet A Schlechte, MD
Thyroid; Pituitary; Calcium and bone; Diabetes

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 9:30 - 10:30 am, Hall C
Opening Ceremony with Karen Davis, PhD, Keynote Speaker
Patient-Centered Medical Homes: Key to a High Performance Health System

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 10:30 - 11:15 am
ACP Press Briefing Improving Diabetes Care Using a Team-Based Approach
Not Recorded
Room 141 Vincenza Snow, MD; Alan C Moses, MD
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
CSD 001 Conducting Group Visits for Patients with Diabetes Not
Recorded
Room 209 AB Dawn E Clancy, MD; Kimberly S Davis, MD
Which patients are appropriate for participation in group visits? How to
bill for group visits and what documentation is required Discuss a clinic
model for group visits

MTP 009 COPD and Asthma also offered May 15, 2:15 pm, room 144
Room 151 Sidney S Braman, MD
How do you define and achieve asthma control? How safe are long-acting
beta2-agonists? What is the role of anti-IgE in asthma management? How can
the internist help to improve the quality of life in COPD?

MSFM 001 Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Diabetes and Insulin

Resistance, Psychiatry,
Ballroom A and Treatment of Menopausal Symptoms
John N Clore, MD; Lisa LaFollette Ellis, MD
Jeffrey M Levine, MD; JoAnn E Manson, MD, DrPH
Inhaled insulin and DPP4 inhibitors in the management of diabetesWhen to
continue or start on a TZD? Appropriate lipid targets for a diabetic
patient Placing a depressed patient on an SSRI antidepressant, how
should the dose be titrated? How do you recognize and treat PTSD?
Safety and effectiveness of topical/vaginal estrogens for dryness Cardio
effect of HRT in peri- vs post-menopausal women

MTP 054 Antimicrobials: What the Internist Needs to Know also offered
May 16, 9:30 am,
Room 146 C Richard P Wenzel, MD, MSc room
146C
How does the clinician treat CA-MRSA, skin and soft tissue infections,
pneumonia and bloodstream infections? What empiric antimicrobial regimens
should be used in this era of antibiotic resistance?

MTP 074 Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis in a New Era of Management

Room 146 A Elena M Massarotti, MD
Why is it important to identify patients early and initiate aggressive
therapy? What is the role of comorbidities in RA, including
hyperlipidemia,
coronary artery disease, hypertension, and osteoporosis?

MTP 101 Consult Medicine Talk
Room 202 Geno J Merli, MD; Howard H Weitz, MD
Review the most frequently asked questions in patients with cardiovascular-
pulmonary disease, endocrinologic and hematologic problems, renal,
peripheral vascular, and other diseases who are undergoing surgery

PN 009 GI Malignancies: An Evidence-Based Approach to Screening,
Surveillance, and
Room 144 Treatment
CDR Brooks D Cash, MD, MC, USN; Capt Walter J Coyle, MD, MC, USN;
Col Roy KH Wong, MD
Who should get standard colonoscopy vs virtual colonoscopy? What is the
evidence-based approach to surveillance for colorectal cancer? Is screening
and surveillance for Barretts esophagus cost-effective? Should we be
screening certain high-risk populations for pancreatic cancer?

PN 014 50 Million Underinsured: What Can a Doctor Do?
Room 201 Jason M Franasiak; David W Gregory, MD; J Fred Ralston Jr,
MD
How to conduct patient care for the underinsured How to become involved in
public advocacy for under insured Americans How to set up healthcare
systems to care for the underinsured

PN 016
All I Know of Medicine I Learned at the Movies Not Recorded
Room 206 Daniel T Contreras; Faith T Fitzgerald, MD; Michael A
LaCombe, MD;
Donna E Sweet, MD
This panel discussion highlights diseases that have been featured in major
movies

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm continued

PN 018 Catch em Before Its Too Late Obesity: Risk Factors and
Intervention in
Room 152 Teenagers and Young Adults
Ronald J Williams, MD
Define obesity in the adolescent and young adult population Become
familiar with the differential diagnosis of obesity in young adults, and
complications of early-onset obesity Learn how to treat obesity in the
office setting

PN 028 Teaching, Learning, and Assessing Medical Professionalism:
Challenges and Opportunities
Room 145 B Christine K Cassel, MD; Frederic W, Hafferty, PhD; Paul S
Mueller, MD
Define medical professionalism Appreciate medical professionalism as a
core competency for physicians Identify challenges for teaching and
learning medical professionalism

UD 001 Update in Cardiology
Ballroom C Peter H Stone, MD
Stable coronary artery disease Percutaneous coronary interventions Acute
coronary
syndrome Epidemiology of coronary artery disease Congestive
heart failure Prevention

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
ACP Press Briefing and Luncheon Critical Considerations for American
Medical Decision-Making
Room 141 Not Recorded David Dale, MD, FACP; ACP
President, Stephen Pauker, MD, MACP; ACP Regent

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 2:15 - 3:45 pm
CP 001 Clinical Pearls: Cardiology and Neurology
Ballroom A Paul W Brazis, MD; Scott C Litin, MD; Howard H Weitz, MD

MTP 079 The Weekend Warrior: Office Management of Sports Injuries also
offered May 16,
Room 146 C C David Geier Jr, MD 11:15
am, room 151
How should the internist examinine, evaluate, and manage the injured
shoulder, knee, and ankle? Who should be referred to orthopedics, and which
patients need to be seen the soonest?

MTP 089 Obesity: A Rational Approach
Room 151 M James Lenhard Jr, MD
What are the medical risks of obesity? Which diets should be used? The
current role of pharmacotherapy for obesity, and new pharmacological
therapies in the pipeline Latest advances for
obesity surgery Short- and
long-term complications of surgery — do the risks justify the procedure?

MTP 108 Physical Diagnosis: The Top 10
Room 202 Salvatore Mangione, MD
Which components of the periodic physical exam are in accordance with
preventive health guidelines recommendations? What is the role of physical
exam in identifying diabetic neuropathy and retinopathy?

MTP 122 Pain Management in the Hospitalized Patient
Room 152 Janet L Abrahm, MD
How to transition from chronic pain management to acute inpatient
management Using chronic outpatient medications in the inpatient setting

PN 001 Medical Management or Revascularization in Patients with
Coronary Artery
Room 147 Disease: Which Strategy for Which Patient?
Peter H Stone, MD
Defining the patient whose prognosis will be improved by revascularization
how to judge the response to the medical management of coronary artery
disease Newer risk factors that impact prognosis
Thursday, May 15, 2008, 2:15 - 3:45 pm continued
PN 002 International Volunteerism: Dos and Donts
Room 201 Serle Epstein, MD; Richard Perry, MD; Suzanne Wenderoth, MD
Choosing a venue and preparing to volunteer
overcoming barriers to
international volunteerism addressing the financial issues involved
with international volunteerism

PN 010 History of Medicine: Illness in National Leaders: An Overview
Room 146 B E Connie Mariano, MD; T Jock Murray, MD; Leslie R Pyenson,
MD; James F Toole, MD
The Physician and Intelligence Analysis The Presidents Physician and the
White House Medical Unit: Duties, Responsibilities and Challenges
Presidential Incapacity: The Case of Woodrow Wilson

PN 013 Hot Off the Press
Room 206 William E Golden, MD; Allan H Goroll, MD; Gary J Martin, MD
The latest findings, trends, and controversies published in the medical
literature and/or the lay press Expert faculty will discuss breaking
information that may not be addressed elsewhere at Internal Medicine 2008
Interactive session, with time for QA discussion

PN 020 Ethics: The Year in Review
Room 145 B Joseph Fins, MD; Virginia Hood, MD, MPH; Paul Mueller, MD
What are the pressing bioethical issues for physicians today and the
practical implications for internists? How are emerging ethical issues
affecting treatment and what should practitioners keep in mind?

UD 013 Update in
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Ballroom C Norton J Greenberger, MD; Prateek Sharma, MD

WSO 303 Stump the Professor Not Recorded
Room 146 A Faith T Fitzgerald, MD
Examine the thought processes of an experienced internist while solving
medical problems

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
MTP 015 Diabetes and Hospitalization: The Evidence for New Inpatient
Glucose Targets
Room 152 Stephen Clement, MD
What is the best evidence for the new standards for glucose control in the
hospitalized patient? What are the best strategies to achieve these
targets? Is there a wrong approach?

MTP 008 The High-Risk Patient with Coronary Artery Disease: Recognition
and Approach to
Room 202 Management
Elliott M Antman, MD
Renal insufficiency in patients with coronary artery disease: whats the
impact, and how to manage? What about diabetes? Cautions in drugs for chest
pain, lipid-lowering agents, and anti-arrhythmic agents?

MTP 022 Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Whats Hot and Whats Not
Room 147 Sunanda V Kane, MD
What are the newest ideas about the pathogenesis of IBD? Describe the role
of gut flora and the hygiene theory with IBD What about biologic
therapies
in the treatment of IBD? Future trends for treating IBD

MTP 050 Diagnosis and Treatment of Anemia
Room 206 Maureen M Okam, MD
Evaluating an anemia efficiently — when should a patient be referred to a
hematologist? How to diagnose and treat iron deficiency? When and how
intravenous iron should be administered

Thursday, May 15, 2008, 4:30 - 5:30 pm continued

MTP 051 Translation of Research into Practice: Cost-Effectiveness
Infectious Diseases
Room 145 B Douglas K Owens, MD
What does cost-effective mean in the context of commonly accepted medical
interventions? What does it not mean? How do cost-effectiveness studies in
infectious diseases affect medical practice?

MTP 061 Preventive Nephrology for the General Internist also offered
May 16, 8:15 am,
Room 201 Allan B Schwartz, MD room
206
Defining chronic kidney disease, and strategies to prevent progression Who
should be screened for proteinuria? Is proteinuria a warning sign or cause
of chronic kidney disease? When and how should diabetics and nondiabetics
with proteinuria be treated?

MTP 080 Back Pain: Who Gets It and When Should the
Patient Be Referred
to a Specialist?
Room 146 B David G Borenstein, MD
Can back pain be managed conservatively with rest, physical therapy,
analgesics, and muscle relaxants? What is the role of
vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty in the management of the patient with vertebral
compression fractures?

SS 003 Ophthalmology for the Internist Not Recorded
Room 151 Joyce E Wipf, MD
What are the common causes of red eye? What causes of red eye threaten
vision? What systemic diseases are associated with red eye?

UD 003 Update in Geriatrics
Ballroom C David B Reuben, MD
Use of probiotics to prevent antibiotic-associated diarrhea Value of
repeat bone mineral density measurement in predicting fractures Treatment
of osteoporosis in older men Hydrotherapy versus Tai Chi in management of
osteoarthritis Postmenopausal hormone therapy

WSO 002 Doing Research in the Office: Professionalism and Pitfalls
Room 146 C Michael J Werner, JD
What constitutes an ethically valid office-based research study? How can
physicians communicate with patients to ensure that they understand the
nature of research, especially when the investigator is their physician,
and the risks and benefits of the
specific study under consideration?

MTP 035 Contraception — Routine and Emergency: New Options
Room 144 Sunanda V Kane, MD
What are the options for emergency contraception? What are the newer
contraceptives, and what are their risks and benefits? What is the role for
low-dose contraceptives in the perimenopausal period?

MTP 103 Evidence-Based Alternative Medicine, Including Herbs and
Dietary Supplements
Room 209AB Barak Gaster, MD
More than half of patients using CAM never discuss it How can internists
find out what their patients are doing or using, and discuss it with them?
What resources can help evaluate the safety and efficacy of CAM treatments?
Selected Courses by Day

Friday, May 16, 2008, 7:00 - 8:00 am
MTP 006 Heart Failure Revisited
Ballroom C Mariell Jessup, MD
What are the stages of heart failure, and how does this alter medical
management? What do the clinical trials of device therapy tell us? Which
arrhythmias put a motorist/pedestrian at high risk? After implantation of
pacemakers and defibrillators, how long before driving can start, and what
are the data?

MTP 007 Valvular Heart Disease: What the Internist Needs
to Know
Room 147 John E Atwood, MD
What is the course and prognosis of aortic stenosis? Aortic insufficiency?
Mitral stenosis? Mitral insufficiency? Mitral valve prolapse? What is the
best medical therapy for aortic insufficiency? When should I refer my
patient with asymptomatic valvular disease for further investigation and
surgery?

MTP 019 Chronic Hepatitis: The Bs and Cs
Room 145 Anna Lok, MD
How common is hepatitis B? How to evaluate and monitor hepatitis B
patients? Which patients should be considered for antiviral therapy? What
can be achieved with current treatments?

MTP 031 The 20-Minute Medicare Visit also offered May 16, 9:30 am,
Ballroom A
Room 144 David B Reuben, MD
What strategies can help you balance quality, satisfaction, and
reimbursement for the frail older person in office practice? How can you
use tools and office staff to improve efficiency in managing frail seniors?

MTP 044 Breast Cancer: Risk Assessment, Genetic Screening, and
Counseling and
Room 143 Prevention Strategies - Radiologic Screening and Evaluation of
the Abnormal Mammogram
Claudine Isaacs, MD; Daniel Kopans, MD
What are the risk factors for
the development of breast cancer? Genetic
testing for BRCA 1 and BRCA 2, and how should the information be used? How
to evaluate and manage patients who test negative for BRCA 1 and BRCA 2 but
have strong family histories of cancer What is the role of mammography in
breast cancer in regard to age and technology, analogue vs digital? Is
there a role for MRI?

MTP 049 Diagnosis and Treatment of Thrombocytopenia, HIT, and TTP
Room 151 Joel S Bennett, MD
What is the differential diagnosis of thrombocytopenia? What are the
management strategies for HIT? What are the management strategies and new
therapies for ITP? How do you diagnose and treat TTP?

MTP 091 The Dizzy Patient
Ballroom A Martin A Samuels, MD, DSc hon
What are the most common etiologies of dizziness seen in primary care? What
are appropriate treatments for labyrinthitis and benign positional vertigo?

MTP 098 Using EHRs to Maximize Quality Improvement and Pay-for-
Performance
Room 146 C Michael Hennigan, MD
Discuss the major organizations involved in setting P4P standards
Demonstrate the use of an application called Crystal Report that can mine
data from EHRs Electronic Health Records of various vendors to
create
reports
Friday, May 16, 2008, 7:00 - 8:00 am continued
MTP 100 Disclosing Harmful Medical Errors to Patients: Recent
Developments and Future Directions
Room 146 A Thomas H Gallagher, MD
Describe the gap between recommendations for disclosure and current
clinical practice What are the key legislative and policy developments
related to disclosure?

PR 002 Practitioners Morning Report: Nephrology Not Recorded
Room 209 AB Christopher G Brown, MD; Allan B Schwartz, MD
Practitioners Morning Report-the practicing clinicians version of the
residency tradition Learn from master clinician-teachers as they approach
challenging cases presented to them as unknowns

Friday, May 16, 2008, 8:15 - 9:15 am
MTP 001 Whats New in the Diagnosis and Management of the Syncopal
Patient?
Ballroom B Allen J Solomon, MD also offered May 16, 4:30
pm, room 202
What is the most cost-effective approach to establishing a diagnosis in the
syncopal patient? What ECG patterns must I be aware of in assessing the
syncopal patient, and how do I identify the patient at risk for a
potentially fatal arrhythmic event?

MTP 029 Top Ten Rules for Rounding on
Hospitalized Elders also
offered May 16,
Ballroom A Jeffrey Wallace, MD 4:30 pm,
room 151
What are the commonly used drugs in the hospital that may present problems
for older patients? How do infections present in elderly patients? How do
you identify patients who are at risk for the common geriatric syndromes,
such as falls, delirium, etc?

MTP 036 Medical Complications of Pregnancy also offered May 16, 4:30
pm, room 146B
Room 146 A Karen A Rosene-Montella, MD
What are the normal physiologic changes in pregnancy? How does the
internist approach asthma, diabetes, thrombosis and hypertension in a
pregnant patient? What medications are safe in pregnancy?

MTP 045 Development and Success of Targeted Therapies in Cancer
Treatment
Room 143 George D Demetri, MD
What are targeted therapies, and how are we identifying them? How do we
assess a patient for potential use of targeted therapies? What has the
impact on length of survival, quality of life, and cure of targeted
therapies?

MTP 059 Nosocomial Infections
Room 151 Richard P Wenzel, MD, MSc
What are the important and common hospital-associated infections
ie,
device-associated bloodstream infections, pneumonia, Clostridium difficile
colitis, pressure ulcer infections? What is the microbiology associated
with these infections?

MTP 073 Crystalline Disease: Challenging Cases
Room 152 Richard M Silver, MD
Gout in the patient with renal insufficiency to include acute and chronic
management The postoperative patient with a polyarticular gout flare
Allopurinol intolerance: What are the options for management? The patient
has a documented history of gout and develops a monoarticular arthritis

MTP 113 Avoiding Malpractice
Room 201 Reilly, Dominic F MD
What are the common scenarios leading to malpractice claims? How can these
be avoided? What additional patient safety initiatives should be part of
office practice?
Friday, May 16, 2008, 8:15 - 9:15 am continued
PN 026 Successful Implementation of an EHR in a Small Office Not
Recorded
Room 146 C Jerome H Carter, MD; Lurlyn Pero, MD
Redesigning office workflow: How much disruption? Where? Who? How do I
avoid typical go live Problems? How can I plan for chart migration? How do
I create a disaster recovery plan?

UD 006 Update in Hematology
Ballroom C Ronald Hoffman,
MD

WSO 301 Ethics and Professionalism for Medical Students Not Recorded
Room 146 B Neil J Farber, MD
What are ethics and professionalism? Why are these issues important to
medical students? How can medical students develop an understanding of
these concepts and learn to use them to their advantage?

MTP 016 Evolving Treatment of Hyperlipidemia also offered at 4:30 pm
in Ballroom A
Room 145 Robert H Eckel, MD
What is the low HDL cholesterol syndrome, and how should it be treated?
Should high-risk patients with diabetes be treated with statins, fibrates,
or both?

MTP 118 Embracing the Story in the History, How We Do It Why it
Matters Not Recorded
209 AB Emily R Transue, MD
Using patients stories to learn about your patient — both to become a
better doctor but also to better enjoy the practice of medicine

Friday, May 16, 2008, 9:30 - 10:30 am
MTP 005 Whats New in Heart Disease in Women?
Room 206 C Noel Bairey Merz, MD
What is the pathophysiology of ischemic heart disease in women, and how
does it differ from that in men? What has the WISE study taught us? What
therapeutic options are available for women, and how are they different
from those for
men?

MTP 020 Chronic Hepatitis: The Bs and Cs
Room 145 Anna Lok, MD
How common is hepatitis C? What are the hepatic and extrahepatic
manifestations of chronic HCV infection? Which patients should be
considered for antiviral therapy?

MTP 033 Treatment Options for Menopausal Symptoms
Room 201 Wendy Simons Klein, MD
What is the evidence that SSRIs, clonidine, gabapentin, and oral agents
improve hot flashes? What are the options for regimens of estrogen and
progesterone for hot flashes? For atrophic vaginitis? What is the evidence
regarding short- and long-term risks and benefits of estrogen replacement
therapy?

MTP 065 The Edematous Patient
Room 151 Robert W Schrier, MD
Does the risk for intravascular volume depletion from overdiuresis differ
among patients with severe congestive heart failure, end-stage liver
disease, and nephrotic syndrome? How can it be avoided? How do you treat
patients with edema who are refractory to usual doses of diuretics?

MTP 085 Headache Evaluation and Management
Room 143 Elizabeth W Loder, MD
What are the most common types of headache presenting to primary care
practice? What are the warning signs for serious headaches, and
what is the
appropriate evaluation of new headaches? New developments in the medical
and interventional treatment of common types of headaches

Friday, May 16, 2008, 9:30 - 10:30 am continued
MTP 093 Management of Depression and Anxiety also offered May 17,
9:30 am,
Room 202 James L Levenson, MD room 144
What is the correct approach to treating mild to moderate depression in
primary care outpatients? How do I choose the best antidepressant for the
individual patient? How should generalized anxiety, social anxiety, and
panic disorder be detected and treated in a primary general internal
medicine practice?

MTP 117 Medical Mythology
Room 147 Douglas S Paauw, MD
Do you need to do a head CT scan before LP? Can you supplement vitamin B12
orally in patients with pernicious anemia? Do betablockers cause
depression? Is silver sulfadiazine the best treatment for burns?

PN 015 Universal Access: What Can the US Learn from Other Countries?

Room 146 B J Fred Ralston Jr, MD
This program will provide a timely and in-depth presentation of hot public
policy issues concerning internal medicine Explain what ACP is doing about
these
issues and how members can become involved Provide an opportunity
for direct questioning of public policymakers and ACP Washington staff

UD 010 Update in Critical Care Medicine
Ballroom C Curtis N Sessler, MD
Septic shock ARDS/respiratory failure Patient safety in the ICU

Friday, May 16, 2008, 10:30 - 11:15 am
ACP Press Briefing E-Health: What It Means for Physicians and Patients
Not Recorded
Room 141 David Dale, MD, FACP; ACP President; Joel Levine, MD, FACP;
Chair, ACP Board of Regents

Friday, May 16, 2008, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
MTP 047 Current Issues in Anticoagulation Therapy also offered May
17, 9:30 am,
Room 147 Peter W Marks, MD, PhD room
147
What are the comparative risks and benefits of different heparin
preparations? What is the ideal conversion schedule for heparin to
warfarin? What is the risk for spontaneous hemorrhage?

MTP 088 Drug Interactions and Side Effects
Room 202 Douglas S Paauw, MD, FACP
What are common mistakes made by physicians in the use of coumadin? What
herbal medications commonly interact with common prescription drugs? What
are the risks of NSAID use in the elderly? Risks of statins?

MSFM
002 Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Perioperative Medicine,
Osteoporosis, and
Ballroom A Headache
Darrell W Harrington, MD; Katayoun K Mostafaie, MD; Clifford J
Rosen, MD; Gretchen E Tietjen, MD
Which patients should be treated with stress dose steroids perioperatively?
How might patients on chronic steroid therapy be treated differently from
those with a history of steroid use? / Should the dental care of patients
on bisphosphonates be altered? What is the optimal duration of therapy with
bisphosphonates? / Are the newer prophylactic drugs for migraine better
than the older treatments such as betablockers and tricyclic compounds?

MTP 099 Tips, Tricks Best Practices for Maximizing Use of Your
Electronic Health Record
Room 146 C Sarah T Corley, MD
Understand workflow modifications that maximize efficient use of HER, and
learn general tips and tricks for enhancing the use of their electronic
medical record not vendor specific Participants will understand how to
evaluate the value of add-on products to their EHR
Friday, May 16, 2008, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm continued
MTP 127 Noninvasive Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease
Room
146 A Ezra A Amsterdam, MD
What is the role of EBCT in patients with known or suspected coronary
artery disease? Of coronary CT angiography? What is the role and future of
cardiac catheterization and coronary angiography?

PN 003 Challenging Cases in Geriatrics
Room 144 Thomas Finucane, MD; Belinda Vicioso, MD
What to do when Mom has the dwindles? What to do when Dad should not drive?

PN 011 History of Medicine: Illness in US Presidents: An Overview
Room 206 E Connie Mariano, MD; T Jock Murray, MD; Leslie Pyenson, MD;
James F Toole, MD
Taking care of Presidents, Kings, Rock Stars, and Presidential Candidates:
A Guide for Physicians
Health Problems and Executive Function Recommendations of the Committee on
Presidential Disability

PN 021 Global TB a Half Century Later: Challenges in Recognition and
Management
Room 145 Guillermo L Acuna, MD; Anne Fanning, MD; et al
The extent of the global incidence and prevalence of TB Diagnosing
pulmonary and extra- pulmonary manifestations of TB, with special emphasis
on evolving disease patterns Drug resistance patterns in TB

PN 034 Reforming the Health Care System: Positions of Leading
Presidential
Contenders
Room 201 Representatives of Sen Obama, Sen Clinton, and Sen McCain
What are the positions of the leading presidential candidates concerning
reforming the health care system? How will the 2008 presidential and
congressional elections affect prospects for achieving universal health
insurance coverage and what actions are most likely? What are the positions
advocated by ACP, and how is ACP contributing to the debate?

PN 035 Save Two Minutes Per Patient: Improving Efficiency and
Enhancing Quality
Room 146 B F Daniel Duffy, MD; David J Gullen, MD
How can I save two minutes per patient encounter by communicating more
effectively? What are the elements of efficiency in the encounter? How can
the strategies improve quality and patient satisfaction?

UD 007 Update in Infectious Diseases
Ballroom C John G Bartlett, MD
HIV prevention Antibiotic resistance MRSA DHHS guideline for HIV care
Opt-out testing Tuberculosis

Friday, May 16, 2008, 2008, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
ACP Press Briefing The Impending Collapse of Primary Care: Challenges
Solutions Not Recorded
and Luncheon David Dale, MD, FACP; ACP President, and others from
ACP; representatives Room 141
from business and patient groups

Friday, May 16, 2008, 2:15 - 3:45 pm
CP 002 Clinical Pearls: Gastroenterology and General Internal Medicine

Ballroom A John B Bundrick, MD; Scott C Litin, MD;
Charmaine A Stewart, MD

MTP 102 Things that Have Changed My Clinical Practice: Inpatient
Medicine
Room 202 Melissa Hagman, MD
What are some recent pearls that have changed inpatient practice? What
therapies that may not be well known have made a real difference?

MTP 111 Office Orthopedics: Common Aches and Pains
Room 144 Gregory C Gardner, MD
What are the common regional musculoskeletal syndromes seen in the office?
How are they best diagnosed? What are the steps in a treatment program?
When do you refer to a generalist?
Friday, May 16, 2008, 2:15 - 3:45 pm continued
MTP 112 Mens Health
Room 143 Abraham Morgentaler, MD
What do recent large-scale studies tell us about the value of PSA for the
detection of prostate cancer? Who is a candidate for surveillance rather
than treatment? The efficacy of medical therapies for BPH

UD 014 Update in Neurology
Ballroom C Martin A Samuels, MD, DSc hon
Parkinsons disease Imaging Alzheimer pathology Stroke
Enoxaparin vs
heparin Varicella and varicella-zoster vaccine Long-term cognitive
sequelae of severe hypoglycemia

PN 017 Balancing Work and Family
Room 201 Shakaib U Rehman, MBBS, Moderator; Dennis W Cope, MD; Carole
Warde, MD
What are the barriers to balancing work and family? How does one prioritize
work so that balance can be achieved?

Friday, May 16, 2008, 4:30 - 5:30 pm
AL 001 Medicine and the Visual Arts Nicholas E Davies Award Lecture

Room 147 M Therese Southgate, MD

PN 025 Internists in Government: Insider Views from ACP Members Who
Have Changed
Room 206 Health Care by Serving in the Federal Government
Robert Berenson, MD; Carolyn Clancy, MD; Eugene Rich, MD
Gain insights from internists who are or were leaders in the federal
government on how federal health policies are made and how individual
internists and ACP can influence public policy

MTP 017 Evolving Treatment of Hyperlipidemia
Ballroom A Robert H Eckel, MD
What is the low HDL cholesterol syndrome, and how should it be treated?
Should high-risk patients with diabetes be treated with statins, fibrates,
or both?

MTP 025 Irritable Bowel Syndrome: Role of Gut Flora
and Infections
Room 152 Nicholas J Talley, MD
Review the new ideas about the pathogenesis of IBS What is the role of gut
flora? Should everyone get breath testing? What about post-infectious IBS?
Is it preventable?

MTP 046 Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of the
Hypercoagulable State
Room 144 Kenneth A Bauer, MD
What are the malignant and non-malignant causes of the hypercoagulable
state? What are the roles of the different heparin preparations? What are
the indications for testing for the factor V Leiden and prothrombin gene
mutations and feciciencies of anthrombin, protein C and protein S?

MTP 068 Venous Thromboembolism: An Evidence-Based Medicine Approach
Room 145 Russell D Hull, MD also offered May 17, 7:00
am, room 202
How useful are the prediction rules in diagnosis of PE clinical
stratification; eg, modified Geneva criteria? What is the role of D-
dimer in diagnosis? Do all patients with DVT or PE need hospitalization?

MTP 075 Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Internists Role in Managing the
Patient with SLE
Room 209 AB Mary Anne Dooley, MD, MPH
What should the internist look for to recognize a disease flare in SLE?
What is the risk
for coronary artery disease in these patients? What
medications are used, and what is the recommended toxicity monitoring?

Friday, May 16, 2008, 4:30 - 5:30 pm continued
MTP 095 Practice Efficiency: Saving Time and Money: Improving Quality
and Patient
Room 146 C Satisfaction
Mary S Applegate, MD
Are there simple, proven methodologies for improving workflow that will
help me better organize my practice to save practice time and improve
clinical quality?

MTP 120 COX-2 Inhibitors: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Room 146 A A Mark Fendrick, MD
What is the evidence for use of COX-2 inhibitors vs NSAIDs vs aspirin
in the treatment of inflammatory conditions? What does a risk-benefit
analysis tell you about which of these drugs should be used and when?

MTP 128 Should Physicians Use Cost-Effectiveness at the Bedside?
Room 143 Scott D Ramsey, MD, PhD
What is the principle underlying cost-effectiveness analysis? What are
physicians professional obligations at the bedside? Does value for money
constitute an obligation when physicians prescribe?

UD 008 Update in Nephrology
Ballroom C Ronald J Falk, MD
Chronic kidney disease The connection of kidney
and heart disease Chronic
kidney and cardiovascular disease Glomerular disease Acute Kidney Injury
Imaging studies and kidney disease

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Selected Courses by Day

Saturday, May 17, 2008, 7:00 - 8:00 am
MTP 018 Testosterone Replacement and Treatment of Hypogonadism
Room 152 Glenn D Braunstein, MD
When should testosterone levels be taken in men complaining about sexual
dysfunction? When should additional tests be performed before referring? Is
androgen replacement therapy in women appropriate?

MTP 026 Clostridium difficile - Associated Disease: The New Epidemic
also offered
Room 145 Edward C Oldfield III, MD, MC, USN May 17, 9:30
am, room 145
What is the epidemiology of CDAD? Are there new risk factors? What is
unique about the new strain of C difficile, and why is it more virulent?
What is new in treatment and prevention? Will there be a vaccine?

MTP 062 The Inpatient Nephrology Consultation: Commonly Asked Questions

Room 151 Gerald A Hladik, MD
Which patients are at risk for radiocontrast-induced renal failure, and how
can
it be prevented? What are the risks of using gadolinium in patients
with kidney disease? How should renal function be assessed?

PR 003 Practitioners Morning Report: Cardiology
Room 209 AB Mariell Jessup, MD; Mahmoud A Sharaf, MD
Practitioners Morning Report-the practicing clinicians version of the
residency tradition Learn from master clinician-teachers as they approach
challenging cases presented to them as unknowns

UD 011 Update in Rheumatology
Ballroom C Beth L Jonas, MD
Rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis

Saturday, May 17, 2008, 8:15 - 9:15 am
MTP 010 Management of Acute Coronary Syndromes
Room 147 Prediman K Shah, MD
What is the most important pathophysiologic event that triggers ACS? Do
nitrates reduce the risk for MI or death in unstable angina? Is primary PCI
more effective than lytic therapy in reducing mortality?

MTP 030 Cognitive Problems in the Elderly
Room 202 Lisa Granville, MD
What is the effectiveness of drug treatments, and how are they prescribed
and monitored? Is there a time to discontinue them? How is agitation best
approached with medication and non-medication methods? How can the
experience of hospital
care of dementia be improved? How is delirium
defined?

MTP 038 Management of Abnormal Endometrial Bleeding
Room 144 David F Archer, MD
Basic investigation of irregular interval endometrial bleeding Therapeutic
interventions for anovulatory conditions Causes and treatment of
intermenstrual bleeding secondary to steroidal contraceptives
Saturday, May 17, 2008, 8:15 - 9:15 am continued
MTP 056 Travel-Associated Infectious Diseases for the Internist
Room 143 Robin McKenzie, MD
What is the approach to common conundrums in travel medicine ie,
malarial medications side effects, pregnancy, etc? What are the four
most important considerations when a returned traveler has a fever?

MTP 064 Electrolyte and Acid-Base Rounds: A Case-Based Presentation
also offered
Room 152 Juan Carlos Ayus, MD 2:15 pm,
room 152
What are common causes of hyponatremia in the hospitalized patient? What
factors predispose to hyponatremic encephalopathy, and how should it be
treated? What is the delta delta gap?

MTP 070 Goal-Directed Therapy for Sepsis
Room 151 Kalpalatha K Guntupalli, MD
What are the critical steps in initial
assessment? What are the goals for
improvement in outcomes? What are the prognosticating features for
better/worse outcomes?

MTP 077 Management of Osteoporosis also offered May 17, 4:00 pm,
room 151
Room 145 Clifford J Rosen, MD
New thoughts in the management of steroid-induced osteoporosis New
therapeutics in the treatment of osteoporosis Should patients be
maintained on bisphosphonate therapy? What are the secondary causes of
osteoporosis, and who should be evaluated for them? Does osteonecrosis of
the jaw occur in patients with osteoporosis who are being treated with
bisphosphonates? What are the risk factors?

MTP 096 Small Practice Management: Surviving in the 21st Century
Room 146 A Robert J Lamberts, MD
Small practices: dinosaurs or cutting-edge solutions? Whats the same?
Whats different? What will change in the future? Are there proven new
ideas that could enhance my practice financially, improve clinical quality,
or ease my time pressures?

MTP 119 Nonrespiratory Sleep Issues
Room 206 Eliza L Sutton, MD
What are the common non-apnea sleep disorders? What is a rational approach
to the management of insomnia? What diseases are associated with
the
restless legs syndrome?

PN 036 Kicking the Tires: Comparing Certified EHRs in Action Part 1
Not Recorded
Room 146 C Peter Basch, MD; Daniel Z Sands, MD, MPH
Observe which EMR products best seem to fit the needs of your practice
Compare and contrast the performance of EMR products using a structured
demonstration

UD 005 Update in Oncology
Ballroom C Lawrence N Shulman, MD
A summary of the years best research: Biologic subtypes of breast cancer
determine response to different chemotherapeutic agents Targeted biologic
therapies improve progression-free but not overall survival for advanced
breast cancer EGFR inhibitors improve efficacy of chemotherapy, and more

WSO 202 Teaching Residents and Fellows to Teach
Room 209 AB Kelley Skeff, MD
Familiarize residents with a scheme for analyzing their teaching skills
Provide tips for being an effective resident teacher
Saturday, May 17, 2008, 9:30 - 10:30 am
MTP 014 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease: Screening, Prevention, and
Treatment
Room 202 Trevor J Orchard, MD, M-Med-Sci
Are the current recommendations for cardiovascular disease screening in
patients with diabetes too conservative? Is there evidence for the
value of
pre-symptomatic screening other than lipids in the prevention of
cardiovascular events? Which tests should be performed?

MTP 071 Pulmonary Hypertension
Room 143 Lewis J Rubin, MD
How should an unexpected echocardiographic finding of pulmonary
hypertension be handled? How to approach diagnosis of PTH? What is the
current treatment algorithm for secondary pulmonary hypertension? How
should patients be followed?

MTP 105 Evidence-Based Physical Diagnosis
Ballroom A Steven McGee, MD
Which physical examination findings best suggest ascites, congestive heart
failure, peritonitis, or
pneumonia? What is the relevance of the physical examination to modern
diagnosis?

MTP 125 Perioperative Medication Management
Room 152 Steven L Cohn, MD; Gerald W Smetana, MD
Understand principles of perioperative medication management How to manage
the most common classes of drugs perioperatively Recognize the
controversies surrounding the management of specific drugs, including
antiplatelet agents, anticoagulants, ACE inhibitors, and more

PN 033 The Impact of the Medicare Pay-for-Reporting Program on
Internists
Room 146 A Yul D Ejnes, MD; Thomas Valuck, MD, JD
Does PQRI
participation drive changes in physician practice care processes
and/or have the ability to improve quality? Has the Medicare PQRI program
changed the dynamics between physician and patient? What will future
Medicare efforts to link quality to payment look like?

PN 037 Kicking the Tires: Comparing Certified EHRs in Action Part 2
Not Recorded
Room 146 C Peter Basch, MD; Daniel Z Sands, MD, MPH
Observe which EMR products best seem to fit the needs of your practice
Compare and contrast the performance of EMR products using a structured
demonstration process

PN 040 Washington Report: Key Health Policy Issues Concerning Internal
Medicine
Not Recorded
Room 151 Robert B Doherty, Moderator
What are the key health policy issues that are being considered by Congress
and the federal executive and regulatory agencies that will affect
internists and their patients? What changes will affect academic internal
medicine? What is ACPs public policy advocacy agenda?

UD 004 Update in Womens Health
Ballroom C Wendy Simons Klein, MD; Melissa McNeil, MD, MPH
Hormone therapy CVD risk by age years since menopause SSRIs the risk
for birth defects Zoledronic acid yearly for
osteoporosis VTE risk
route of hormone therapy administration DM risk screening after
gestational diabetes Breast screening with MRI

Saturday, May 17, 2008, 11:15 am - 12:45 pm
MSFM 003 Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Infectious Diseases, GERD
and H pylori, and
Ballroom A Dermatology
Michael Bigby, MD; Loren G Miller, MD, MPH; Nicholas J Talley, MD;
Judy Tung, MD
When should treatment of skin and soft tissue infections cover community-
acquired MRSA in the outpatient setting? What are the recommended
antibiotic options? When should patients undergo MRSA decolonization
protocols? What are the clinical implications of H pylori detection in a
patient with GERD? What is the best evidence-based treatment for adult
acne?

MTP 081 Consult the Allergist
Room 145 Mariana C Castells, MD, PhD
What is the role of desensitization in managing allergic patients? How are
antibiotic allergies best handled in the allergic patient? What are common
allergy problems facing the internist? What is the role of environmental
allergies in the allergic patient and/or in the patient with reactive
airways disease?

MTP 097 E-Prescribing: What Is It? Why Should
I Do it? Whats in the
Future?
Room 146 C Daniel Z Sands, MD, MPH
Describe how e-prescribing works Understand the infrastructure that makes
e-prescribing work Name two funding models for e-prescribing Be able to
assess e-prescribing products Explain the steps in e-prescribing
implementation

MTP 104 Clinical Problem Solving: Controversies in Preoperative Cardiac
Risk Evaluation
Room 143 and Perioperative Patient Management
Steven L Cohn, MD; Gerald W Smetana, MD
Briefly review the updated ACC/AHA guidelines, ACP guidelines, and Lee
Revised Index for perioperative cardiac risk assessment and management
Discuss in a highly interactive format a variety of cases involving
difficult decisions in preoperative cardiac evaluation and perioperative
risk reduction strategies

MTP 106 Evaluation and Treatment of Common Symptoms
Room 146 B Douglas S Paauw, MD
What are the most common causes of chronic cough, and what is the
appropriate diagnostic and management plan? When should you image patients
with low back pain? What about patients with headache? What is the best
approach for patients with chronic daily headache, dizziness, fatigue?

MTP 123 Preventing
Adverse Events and Promoting Safety for Hospitalized
Patients
Room 151 Scott A Flanders, MD
What are common safety issues for hospitalized patients? What steps can be
taken to reduce adverse events? What is the role of the hospitalist in
patient safety?

PN 024 Innovation in Practice: Exploring the Impact of Practice
Redesign, Quality
Room 146 A Improvement, and Information Technology on the Economics of
Physician Offices
Michael S Barr MD, MBA; Dawn Cooke; Jacqueline W Fincher, MD;
Christopher J Mays, MD; Pam Shivers, CPC
What strategies have been successful in small- and medium-sized physician
offices to demonstrate quality improvement, reduce costs, improve patient
safety and satisfaction, and enhance revenue? How can the Center for
Practice Improvement Innovation help ACP members?

MTP058 Management of Common Outpatient Infections also offered May
17, 2:15 pm,
Room 152 Ajit P Limaye, MD room
147
What is the rational approach for diagnosis and selection of empirical
therapy for community-acquired pneumonia? for urinary tract infections?
presumed infectious diarrhea?
pharyngitis/sinusitis?

UD 009 Update in Pulmonary Medicine
Ballroom C Kesavan Kutty, MD
Asthma Pneumonia Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease COPD Venous
Thromboembolism
Saturday, May 17, 2008, 2:15 - 3:45 pm
MTP 092 Neurology for the Non-Neurologist
Room 202 S Hariharan, MD
What are the best current approaches to preventing and managing TIA and
stroke? What is the potential role of carotid stenting? How should the
patient with a first seizure be evaluated and managed?

MTP 094 Spirituality in End-of-Life Care: What Is the Physicians Role?

Room 206 Steven A Levy, MD
Exploring the impact of spirituality on the healing process and the
physicians role in addressing patient issues of spirituality

MTP 129 Being a Real Doctor in a Paperless Office
Room 146 C Robert J Lamberts, MD
Practical lessons for implementing electronic health records EHR
successfully in a physician office What workflow and other changes are
required to move beyond EHRs to a full paperless office?

PN 029 Moving Beyond Disease Management for the Primary Care
Physician: Managing Patients with Multiple Co-Morbidities
Room 146 B Bruce Leff, MD; Sanford R Mallin, MD
What are
the characteristics of persons with multiple chronic illnesses,
and why is it important for my practice to identify them? What common
approaches can be used to care best for persons with multiple chronic
illnesses?

UD 015 Update in General Internal Medicine
Ballroom C Robert K Cato, MD; Jack Ende, MD
Long-term benefits of bariatric surgery Effect of coronary artery stenting
on cardiac events and mortality Cardiac risks of rosiglitazone and
pioglitazone Use of zoledronic acid for treatment of osteoporosis

MTP058 Management of Common Outpatient Infections
Room 147 Ajit P Limaye, MD
What is the rational approach for diagnosis and selection of empirical
therapy for community-acquired pneumonia? for urinary tract infections?
presumed infectious diarrhea? pharyngitis/sinusitis?

Saturday, May 17, 2008, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
MTP 040 Female Sexual Medicine
Room 146 A Jacqueline Thielen, MD
Female sexual dysfunction: classification, scope of the problem, and why it
matters for internists to know Evaluation of a woman with sexual concerns
Treatment options: What can the general internist do? Who to refer for
comprehensive evaluation and treatment?

UD 016 Update in
Hospital Medicine
Ballroom C Jeffrey J Glasheen, MD; Joseph Li, MD
Hospitalist model of care: Comparison with internists and family
physicians Community-acquired pneumonia and performance measures Reducing
catheter-associated bloodstream infections Perioperative medicine: Role of
prophylactic revascularization for high-risk patients undergoing vascular
surgery Procedures: declining number and variety done by internists

AL 003 William C Menninger Award Lecture: Reproductive Steroids and
Mood: The Brain
146 B in Context
David R Rubinow, MD

MTP 116 Things that Have Changed My Clinical Practice: Outpatient
Medicine
Room 202 Mark E Pasanen, MD
What are some recent pearls that have changed outpatient practice? What
therapies that may not be well known have made a real difference?
Saturday, May 17, 2008, 4:00 - 5:00 pm continued
MTP072 Sleep Medicine for the Internist
Room 143 David P White, MD
What are the treatment options for sleep apnea? What are the restless legs
syndrome and periodic limb movement? Approach to insomnia diagnosis and
management Which snoring, overweight patient should get a sleep study?

Saturday, May 17, 2008, 5:15 - 6:30 pm
AMH 001
Internal Medicine 2008 Highlights: Key Messages Youll Want to
Take Home and
Ballroom A Doctors Dilemma: The Finals
R Hal Baker, MD; Christopher L Knight, MD;
Douglas S Paauw, MD; Lawrence M Tierney Jr, MD
Internal Medicine 2008 culminates in this wrap-up session Hear three
outstanding clinician-educators share what they think are the meetings
most important take-home messages Then join the excitement of the final
round of Doctors Dilemma The Final Four teams of residents who survived
Thursday and Fridays competitions will face off in the championship round
of this Jeopardy-style test of knowledge The winner takes home the Osler
Cup — ACPs coveted trophy