Pass the ABIM Internal Medicine exams, expand your knowledge and improve patient outcomes with this comprehensive review.

Pass the boards with this comprehensive review

This program of state-of-the-art lectures provides an intensive review of internal medicine for training and practicing physicians preparing for the ABIM Internal Medicine exams. The program covers every subspecialty within primary care and selected outside specialties including neurology, dermatology and psychiatry. Its goal is to provide practical, up-to-date information for any physician looking for a broad-based review of internal medicine and to fully prepare physicians for the wide range of conditions faced in the practice of primary care, family care and internal medicine. Led by a distinguished team from the UCSF School of Medicine, the course will help you to better:

• Identify strengths and weaknesses in your knowledge of Internal Medicine and successfully address these in preparation for the ABIM Certification or Recertification Examination.
• Incorporate important evidence-based advances in clinical medicine over the past decade into clinical practice.
• Improve strategies to diagnose, treat and prevent important conditions in general internal medicine and medicine subspecialties for improved patient outcomes.
• Provide optimal care expected of a general internist for conditions in non-medicine specialties including neurology, psychology and dermatology.

Learning Objectives

After viewing this program, participants should be able to:

• Identify strengths and weaknesses in your knowledge of Internal Medicine and successfully address these in preparation for the ABIM Certification or Recertification Examination.
• Incorporate important evidence-based advances in clinical medicine over the past decade into clinical practice.
• Improve strategies to diagnose, treat and prevent important conditions in general internal medicine and medicine subspecialties for improved patient outcomes.
• Provide optimal care expected of a general internist for conditions in non-medicine specialties including neurology, psychology and dermatology.

Intended Audience

Internists who are preparing to take the ABIM Certification or Recertification Exam. This course is designed to actively engage participants and to provide optimal preparation for passing the exam and for internists who desire to improve their patient care practice.

Topics/Speakers

• Overview and Test Taking Tips – H. Quinny Cheng, MD

• Primary Care/Ambulatory Medicine – Paul L. Nadler, MD

• Psychiatry – James A. Bourgeois, MD

• Infectious Disease – Peter Chin-Hong, MD; Jennifer Babik, MD

• Geriatrics – John Newman, MD

• Gastroenterology – Part 1 – General GI – Justin L. Sewell, MD, MPH, FACP

• Cardiology – Part 1 – Atif Qasim, MD, MSCE

• Endocrinology – Hilary Thomas, MD

• Hospital Medicine – H. Quinny Cheng, MD

• Nephrology – Meyeon Park, MD

• Pulmonary and Critical Care – Leslie Zimmerman, MD

• Gastroenterology – Part 2 – Hepatobiliary – Danielle Brandman, MD, MAS

• Cardiology – Part 2 – Jeffrey Zimmet, MD, PhD

• Rheumatology – Jeffrey Critchfield, MD; Jonathan Graf, MD

• Oncology – Matthew Gubens, MD, MS

• Hematology – Bradley Lewis, MD

Date of Original Release: September 14, 2015

File formats: MP4 Videos, PDF syllabus