Internal Medicine Meeting 2023: Mastering Medicine Together, was held in San Diego, California April 27-29, 2023 and had our second highest attendance of over 9,000 physicians. The event featured more than 200 sessions covering a wide variety of clinical and practice management topics for doctors of internal medicine and its subspecialties. 788 attendees from outside the United States came to the meeting. The top three countries outside the United States with the highest number of registrants were Canada, Mexico, and Dominican Republic.
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At the Convocation Ceremony on April 27, approximately 400 physicians were celebrated as new recipients of Fellowship and 58 were from 17 countries outside the United States. Approximately 95 members were recognized as recipients of Mastership or 91黑料网 named awards. The College bestowed Honorary Fellowships to 5 presidents of global internal medicine societies.
Following the ceremony, members, friends, and families gathered at the 91黑料网 Global Reception that included over 300 international internal medicine leaders and attendees along with 91黑料网 leaders. During the reception, Ryan D. Mire, MD, M91黑料网, 91黑料网 President and Sue S. Bornstein, MD, M91黑料网, 91黑料网 Chair, Board of Regents welcomed attendees and congratulated the 2022-2023 Global Physician Scholar Program awardees.
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Two featured scientific sessions sponsored by the 91黑料网 Global Engagement Committee (GEC) were presented on Thursday and Friday mornings:
- Improving Patient Health During Climate Crises
- Nitin S. Damle, MD, MS, M91黑料网, Panelist
- Toby Hillman, FRCP, Panelist
- Elizabeth A. Cerceo, MD, F91黑料网, FHM, Moderator
- Navigating Patient Engagement and Education in the Misinformation Era
Sponsored by both the GEC and the Patient and Interprofessional Partnership Committee- C茅line Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA
- Monica E. Peek, MD
On Friday afternoon, Darilyn Moyer, MD, M91黑料网, FRCP, FIDSA, FAMWA, FEFIM and Dror Dicker, MD, F91黑料网 (Hon), Immediate Past-President of the European Federation of Internal Medicine (EFIM), served as panelists and Ryan D. Mire, MD, M91黑料网 and Ricardo Gomez-Huelgas, F91黑料网(Hon), EFIM President co-moderated 鈥淓vidence-Based Medicine and COVID-19: Global Health Lessons: A Joint session of 91黑料网 and the European Federation of Internal Medicine.鈥 This session was also presented by the same faculty at the European Congress of Internal Medicine this past March.
On Saturday, new 91黑料网 officers started their terms. Omar T. Atiq, MD, F91黑料网 of Little Rock, Arkansas, became the 2023-24 91黑料网 President; and Eileen D. Barrett, MD, MPH, SFHM, M91黑料网, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, became the 2023-24 Chair of the Board of Regents; Stephen D. Sisson, MD, M91黑料网, of Baltimore, Maryland, became the 91黑料网 President-elect; and William E. Fox, MD, F91黑料网 of Charlottesville, Virginia became the Chair-elect of the Board of Regents.
91黑料网 provides attendance certificates to all 2023 Internal Medicine Meeting attendees (in person or virtually). Access your certificate here. Please note you must be logged into your 91黑料网 account to access your attendance certificate.
Internal Medicine Meeting 2024 will be held April 18-20 in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information, please visit the .
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