Course Info
Updates, Advances and Best Practices in All Areas of Medicine
The landscape of internal medicine is evolving rapidly, presenting practicing clinicians with increasingly complex challenges to maintain cutting-edge patient care. In response to such challenges, we developed Update in Internal Medicine over three decades ago and continue to improve it based on attendee feedback and current trends to provide you with the latest updates, advancements and best practices to optimize patient care across all areas of medicine.
All of the major subspecialties in general medicine will be covered including hot-off-the-press emerging topics, arming you with the latest information. Our live-streaming option ensures access to top-notch CME education, with recordings available for immediate on-demand viewing until March 27, 2026.
Reasons to Attend
Internists, family medicine physicians, specialists, PAs, and NPs from around the world attend this intensive, highly rated course to gain the latest updates, clinical advances, and best practices to enhance patient care across a wide range of conditions.
Featuring over 80 dynamic sessions — including interactive lectures, case-based reviews, and ask-the-experts panels led by the foremost authorities — this program delivers in-depth coverage of today’s most pressing and timely medical topics, including:
- Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
- Asthma and COPD
- Cancer Care in 2025
- Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Clinician Burnout
- Common Orthopedic Injuries
- Diagnosis and Management of Anemia
- Diagnosis and Treatment of Depression
- Direct Oral Anticoagulants
- Emerging Infections
- End-of-Life Care
- Hypertension
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Leadership: Everyone Can Lead
- Management of Atrial Fibrillation
- Medical and Surgical Management of Obesity
- Proteinuria
- Type 2 Diabetes
- Understanding the Microbiome
- Updates on Smoking Cessation
Scores of attendees continue to comment on the excellence of this course and the fact that this is indeed the best medicine course they have ever attended! “We don’t know how you do it, but this course gets better each year!”
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Integrate new knowledge and research findings into the evaluation and treatment of common and uncommon medical disorders.
- Apply up-to-date screening recommendations for breast, ovarian, lung, colon and prostate cancer.
- Treat patients with or at risk for diabetes.
- Interpret liver function tests and understand advances made in the treatment of infectious hepatitis.
- Develop strategies to prevent and/or treat atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
- Provide state-of-the-art care to patients with a wide range of disorders commonly seen in the primary care provider’s practice.
- Identify strategies to optimize the impact of lifestyle interventions in the treatment of obesity.
- Inform and inspire colleagues to prevent burnout and lead in effective ways.
- artificial intelligence
- breast cancer
- cardiology
- complementary medicine
- dermatology
- diabetes
- endocrinology
- ENT
- gastroenterology
- hematology
- hepatitis
- hepatology
- infectious diseases
- integrative medicine
- leadership
- lung cancer
- microbiome
- nephrology
- neurology
- obesity
- oncology
- ophthalmology
- opiates
- orthopedics
- ovarian cancer
- prostate cancer
- psychiatry
- pulmonary diseases
- radiology
- rheumatology
- sleep
Optimized for Remote Learning
What makes this course among the highest-rated Harvard Medical School CME courses:
- Enhanced for distance learning
- Submit questions through the course's online chat; Speakers will either address questions immediately from the podium or reply in the chat
- Participate in online polling feature: Year after year, participants report that the polling feature of this program has advanced their ability to approach complex and challenging cases in their day-to-day practice
- Interactive case-based questions in most presentations
- Session recordings & downloads available for immediate viewing online until March 27, 2026.
Each specialty will also have a “challenging cases” session using the Audience Response System, which will enable you to anonymously test your knowledge in the different areas of medicine and compare it with that of your peers.
The comprehensive digital syllabus will enhance your knowledge and provide you with additional skills to improve your practice.
Whether you are preparing for certification or recertification in internal medicine or planning to attend to improve your knowledge, we are certain you will find this course most informative and inspiring and you will come away with new skills and knowledge that will help your patients lead healthier and happier lives.
Reviews of Our Online Format
“I appreciated attending this meeting from the comfort of my own home. I was able to learn and update my practice while still keeping up with family and work obligations.”
“As a primary care provider, I found that this course did an outstanding job of immersing one into the world of the intensivist.”
“Great speakers, inspiring, smart, and enthusiastic.”
“The virtual option provided an opportunity for me to learn from Harvard Medical School’s best.”
“The instant response to Q&A was impressive and felt like we were connecting in-person.”
“The online platform was excellent and very easy to use.”