Excellence in Educational Offerings

Our Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 19®) continues to offer an all-inclusive, personalized learning system. MKSAP 19 includes 12 medical content sections and over 2,000 self-study questions, flash cards, multimedia enhancements, and other study tools within an individualized learning system for an enjoyable longitudinal learning experience.

New features include:

IM-ITE Feedback feature that allows you to use feedback from the Internal Medicine In-Training Examination® (IM-ITE) to build a custom Learning Plan.
MKSAP Question Bank that brings together all question types for easy access.
A Shuffle Option that randomly selects questions for you from the MKSAP 19 Question Bank.

MKSAP 19 content is frequently updated for your benefit; newly added Extension Questions challenge you with the latest information and New Info Updates highlight practice-changing information, guidelines, and expert recommendations. Additional updated features and exam prep tools include Virtual DX image-based learning questions, embedded links to ACP educational resources, and an updated Residency Tracker that allows program directors to assess the progress and ability of their residents as they answer MKSAP 19 multiple choice questions.

Internal Medicine Meeting 2023

The Internal Medicine Meeting 2023 in San Diego saw a record number of our internal medicine community gather. The hybrid event featured more than 170 scientific sessions onsite featuring a full spectrum of internal medicine clinical subspecialty and generalist topics including sessions on ACP clinical guidelines, content for hospitalists, and topics on current issues such as telehealth, health and the homeless, health policy issues and updates on COVID-19.

The meeting also featured networking like the 35th Anniversary Black Physician’s Reception, events for Early Career Physicians, Residents/Fellows, and Medical Students including the First-Time Attendees Networking Reception. Highlights of the meeting included:

Keynote Speakers

At ACP’s Opening Ceremony, Vineet Arora, M.D., MACP, Professor of Medicine and Dean for Medical Education at The University of Chicago Medicine, delivered the keynote: “Lead from Where You Stand: How to Advocate for Your Patients, Your Profession, and Yourself.”

An additional plenary session moderated by Christine Sinsky, M.D., MACP, Vice President of Professional Satisfaction at the American Medical Association: “Beyond the Yoga Mat: System-Level Well-Being Success Stories” which included panelists Jane Fogg, M.D., Sarah Richards, M.D., FACP, and Eladio Pereira, M.D., FACP.

Doctors’ Dilemma

The coveted Osler Cup was presented to the Oregon Health and Science University Program at the ACP Doctor's Dilemma® Competition, the annual competition that evaluates the medical knowledge of up to 60 teams, each representing an ACP chapter.

New and Returning Favorites

ACP debuted a new Professional Development Center featuring a collection of professional development resources for physicians to explore including Mini But Mighty Academic Skills Sessions, Career or Quality Improvement Coaching sessions, Meet the Podcaster and Meet the Editor table sessions, Job Placement Center and the Abstract and Poster displays.

The 2023 annual meeting also featured the Clinical Skills Center, offering hands-on learning opportunities including simulation models focusing on office-based procedures, live model examination skills, POCUS imaging stations, and activities supporting assessment and interpretation skills.

ACP’s annual Convocation Ceremony once again honored in-person recipients of outstanding contributions to medicine, recognizing 375 new Fellows, 69 members elected to Mastership, and the recipients of national awards.

We look forward to seeing you at ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting 2024: Mastering Medicine Together, in Boston, from April 18-20, 2024.

Registration is now open!

Online Learning Center

The ACP Online Learning Center offers hundreds of curated CME and MOC activities including journal articles, podcasts, videos, and interactive multimedia. Online Learning Center activities can help you earn free CME/MOC credit and meet many state-based CME requirements. This year marked the launch of the Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Hub, in response to the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) new requirement to provide a one-time attestation of completing eight hours of training on managing patients with substance abuse disorders. The SUD Hub consists of a curated collection of activities to help you meet the new attestation requirement.

Another new addition to the Online Learning Center was the Intimate Partner Violence Program, an interactive learning series that provides practical, evidence-based steps to implement safe and supportive interventions with patients experiencing domestic violence. The two-part, 3-hour program includes:

Intimate Partner Violence: Dynamics and Effects, provides strategies to help you feel comfortable addressing matters of domestic violence and exploitation.
Intimate Partner Violence: Educating and Connecting, offers universal education approaches that simultaneously promote prevention and improve health and safety outcomes.

Our Pain Management Learning Hub offers peer-to-peer learning materials for you to practice skills necessary for pain assessment, diagnostic differentials, treatment plans, and patient-centered communication.

The Obesity Management Learning Hub consists of resources to help build your confidence in providing counseling and treatment to patients struggling with excess weight and obesity. Resources featured within this hub include the Obesity Management Learning Series, patient education materials, and The DEI Shift Podcast-Obesity Mini-Series.

ACP's High Value Care initiative aims to improve health, avoid harm, and end wasteful practices through its many resources such as the High Value Care Curriculum. Our High Value Care Curriculum received a 2023 update with new interactive case studies and five ready-to-use slide decks that make it easier to facilitate group discussions.

Designed to train residents and fellows to be good stewards of limited health care resources and to make cost-conscious decisions, topics include:

Eliminating health care waste and over-ordering of tests
Understanding health care costs and payment models
Providing high value diagnostic testing and management
Supporting antimicrobial stewardship
Understanding high value hospitalization and the cost implications of different care settings
Overcoming barriers to high value care

POCUS

Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is a tool increasingly used in practice to improve diagnostic timeliness and accuracy. This year, seven foundational self-paced POCUS online activities have been fully updated in collaboration with over 14 national experts.

ACP also recently launched the POCUS Pathway bundle, a collection of training options that will guide learners on their POCUS educational journey. The bundle includes:

Foundational through Advanced in-person POCUS instruction
Virtual, personalized, expert mentorship in the POCUS Mentorship Program and numerous online activities to help solidify core knowledge

CME/MOC points are available, and a certificate of completion is awarded upon completion.

Podcasts

Annals on Call

Host Robert Centor, MD, MACP, and guests debate and discuss recent articles from Annals of Internal Medicine.

Bedside Rounds

Host Adam Rodman, MD, FACP, focuses on historic stories of clinical medicine and how they relate to today’s society and culture.

Core IM

Host Shreya Trivedi, MD, and her team present clinically relevant internal medicine-specific topics for physicians. Core IM also offers a series of podcast episodes addressing interprofessional team care.

The DEI Shift

Hosts Tammy Lin, MD, MPH, FACP; Tiffany I. Leung, MD, MPH, FACP, FAMIA; and Pooja Jaeel, MD, focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in medicine and feature a diverse team of members across career stages—from undergraduate students to advanced career physicians, representing a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences.

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