This intensive full-day course, organized by the Mayo Clinic together with Clínica Alemana de Santiago, is designed to review various areas of Internal Medicine and is based on the criteria used by the American Board of Internal Medicine to prepare the certification exam in the United States.
After two successful experiences in 2005 and 2007, the course is being offered for the third time. Just like the last two times, the organizing team designed an interactive educational program, oriented mainly to specialists in internal medicine and subspecialists in primary care or general practice and to medical residents.
The course will consist of a presentation of key subjects centered on the advances in each specialty followed by questions and answers. There will also be clinical cases for discussion.
The subjects that will be reviewed are, cardiology, dermatology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, images in medicine, infectious diseases (HIV-AIDS), intensive medicine, general internal medicine, preventive medicine, nephrology and hypertension, neurology, ophthalmology for the internist, oncology, psychiatry, rheumatology, respiratory illnesses and emergency medicine.
The different subjects will be covered by 42 presenters: 22 faculty members of Mayo Clinic and 20 faculty members from Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Clínica Alemana de Temuco as well as from the Sociedad Médica de Santiago and the Chilean Chapter of the American College of Physicians. The classes by foreign academics will be delivered in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish.
