ACP meeting tackles topics across health care

Key takeaways:

• This year’s meeting will feature over 200 onsite sessions and over 100 hours of live-streamed sessions.
• The conference will also see the return of ACP’s scientific plenary session.

This year’s ACP Internal Medicine Meeting is taking place in person in New Orleans and virtually from April 3 to April 5.

According to an ACP press release, the conference will feature over 200 sessions on site, whereas virtual attendees can access more than 100 hours of live-streamed sessions and over 200 hours of recordings.

The sessions will touch on several major clinical topics, including AI, behavioral health, health policy issues and new health digital tools, the release noted.

“I always love the update sessions. I learn things that I did not know I had missed,” Alan Dow, MD, MSHA, FACP, a Ruth and Seymour Perlin Professor of Medicine and Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Healio Primary Care Peer Perspective Board member, told Healio. “As a clinician, it’s hard to know what you don’t know, and these sessions help point out those areas where I can further improve my patient care.”

Returning from last year will be ACP’s scientific plenary session, “New in Annals of Internal Medicine: Hear it first from the authors,” where researchers will discuss late-breaking scientific papers scheduled to publish in Annals of Internal Medicine the same day.

Other meeting highlights will include:

• learning formats like “Clinical Pearls,” “Meet the Professor” and “Clinical Workshops”;
• the popular and comical “Thieves’ Market” session in which attendees shout out possible diagnoses as a challenging clinical case unfolds during the presentation;
• a clinical skills workshop, offering hands-on learning and simulation models focused on examination skills, assessment and interpretation skills, and office-based procedures; and
• “Doctor’s Dilemma,” a medical knowledge competition where 50 teams of residents will compete.

“The range of educational opportunities is wider than ever,” ACP President Isaac O. Opole, MBChB, PhD, MACP, told Healio. “We are particularly excited about the blend of traditional and innovative experiences that are designed to enrich the professional lives of our members and attendees.”

He added that their hope “is to ultimately provide attendees with a flexible, engaging and comprehensive educational program that will reflect our commitment to meeting the evolving needs of our members.”

The keynote speaker, Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP, managing director of Tuckson Health Connections LLC, will kick off the meeting with his talk, “Professionalism in a time of crisis,” the release said.

At the end of the conference, Jason M. Goldman, MD, FACP, a primary care physician, will become president of ACP, and Rebecca A. Andrews, MS, MD, FACP, a professor of medicine at the University of Connecticut, will become the chair of ACP’s Board of Regents.

“I hope attendees leave the meeting not just knowing more but also feeling like they are part of a community of health care providers who are unified in their goal to have a healthier world,” Dow said. “Now more than ever, being a part of a medical community is important as we care for patients and work to ensure everyone can be healthier in the future.”

Live onsite coverage for this year’s meeting, in addition to videos and stories from previous ACP meetings, can be found here.