The ECIM 2024 Scientific Committee has been diligently working to develop a comprehensive scientific program that covers a broad range of topics, including the latest advancements in clinical research, emerging technologies, and innovative treatment approaches. We are pleased to present the draft scientific plan and topics below for your review:
Plenary Sessions
- Artificial Intelligence; Will it replace the physician ?
- Challenges and updates in Sepsis
- Heart failure: State of art
- Twincretin (Twin incretins ) roll in medicine
- Demantia; internist should not forget!
- Thrombophilias: when and how to investigate
Parallel Sessions
- Management of malnourished hospitalized patients: From hospitalist perspective
- Autoinflammatory diseases
- Internal Medicine in the future hospital: High intensity in Internal Medicine / Comanagement
- Preventive medicine: Prescribing physical activity, a practical guideline
- Management of older patients with multimorbidity
- Whats new in Celiac disease and other types of gluten sensitivity syndromes
- Hepatocellular Carcinoma
- Antimicrobial resistance and new antibiotics
- The frail patient
- Dermatology for internists
- Young Internists – Challenges in training: uncertainty, medical errors
- Dysphagia disorders in clinical practice
- State of the art of non-communicable diseases in Developing Countries; focus on hypertension and diabetes. What is the role of Internal Medicine?
- What is new in Acute Medicine
- Neutropenic Fever; Diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infections
- The phoenix internist: overcoming hardship and rising from the ashes
- Microbiota, dysbiosis, probiotics: Implementation to internists practice
- Adult vaccination
- TIA/stroke; what internists should know and how to manage
- Pitfalls of antibiotic therapy in community acquired pneumonia
- Endocarditis guidelines
- Whats new in Geriatric Medicine
- Biomarkers to guide antibiotic treatment
- Inpatient cirrhosis management
- Vasculitis and mimicking syndromes
- How to incorporate Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) tool into routine internal medicine care
- Appraisal guidelines of EFIM
- Secondary Hypertension: when to think, what to do
Controversies Debates
- Lung cancer screening
- Vitamin D supplementation
- Is physical examination dying?
- POST-COVID 19: Myth or reality
- Does all AF after stroke warrant anticoagulation?
- Digoxin in heart failure? Yes or no?
- Advancements in Medical Technology vs Overreliance on Technology
Round Tables
- Consideration about end-of-life
- Chalenges and updates in Dislipidemia
- Outpatient healthcare: hospital at home, quick diagnosis units, case management of chronic complex patient
- Fatty liver disease: Assessment and optimal management
- Acute Coronary Syndrome
Joint Sessions
- New hypertension guidelines
- Workplace safety in global healthcare
- Management of diabetes in hospital setting
- What is the role of internal medicine in disasters
- Special Session for International Womans Day: Womens’ Health for Internists
- Meet the Experts Sessions
- Metabolic Patient
- Hepatitis B and D in practice
- HIV in Internal Medicine Practice
- New recommendations by EMA about the properly use of Fluoroquinolones
- Mind confusing cases in thyroid hormone tests
- Deranged Liver function tests in asymptomatic patients
- How to write case report on digital medicine
Workshops
- ACUTE MEDICINE – Non-invasive mechanical ventilation Workshop
- Ultrasound Workshop
- Obesity Workshop
- Choosing Wisely (From choosing wisely to choosing greenly)
- Young Internists’ Workshop: How to publish an article
- Soft but hard essensial skills for the best start as an internal medicine specialist