Day 1 (Thursday, May 6, 2021)
Conference Centre Faculty of Medicine
Jagiellonian University Medical College
ul. św. Łazarza 16, 31-530 Kraków
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Conference
Clinical Cases in Internal Medicine: Learning Through Practice (9:00–14:00)
During this conference 20 selected case reports submitted to the Best Case Report Contest will be presented by the authors and discussed by experts recognized worldwide.
Hands-on workshops
Choosing the right anticoagulant for your patient with comorbidities: VKA, DOAC or heparin?
Managing anticoagulant-related bleeding: what to do before, during and after the bleed
Fluids, electrolytes and acid-base: tying it all together
Cardiac arrest management
Cardioversion: the ultimate management of unstable tachyarrhythmia
Airway management: tracheal intubation
Airway management: supraglottic airway devices and ventilation
How to read a chest x-ray: primer for non-radiologists
Compression ultrasound in diagnosing deep vein thrombosis
Giant cell arteritis course & ultrasound workshop
Narrative Medicine Express: writing in the shadow of a literary work as means of improving self-reflection and empathy
EBM: producing and using trustworthy practice guidelines: GRADE methodology
EBM: evidence-based medicine: interpreting results of systematic reviews
EBM: developing a protocol for a systematic review of effects of interventions
Practical skills for teaching at the bedside: the 5-minute Bedside Moment (5M2)
Teaching with serious board games: learning from the GridlockED example
How to overcome barriers in explicit teaching of clinical reasoning
Writing good multiple choice test questions
More to be announced
Day 2 (Friday, May 7, 2021)
ICE Kraków Congress Centre
ul. Marii Konopnickiej 17, 30-302 Kraków
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Welcome and introduction
Organizing Committee
Opening lecture
Is physical examination of the cardiovascular system still important?
Prof. Andrew Elder
University of Edinburgh, UK
Session I
What's new in the management of chronic heart failure
Prof. Harriette Van Spall
McMaster University, Canada
Acute pulmonary embolism: how to diagnose quickly and treat effectively
Prof. Adam Torbicki
Center of Postgraduate Medical Education, Poland
To be announced
Management of chronic coronary syndromes according to the latest practice guidelines
Prof. William Wijns
National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Questions & answers
All speakers
Refreshment break
Session II
Hemoglobinopathies: when to worry
Prof. Madeleine Verhovsek
McMaster University, Canada
Von Willebrand disease: the most common bleeding disorder
Prof. Mark Crowther
McMaster University, Canada
To be announced
Questions & answers
All speakers
Lunch break
Session III
Management of antiphospholipid syndrome according to the latest practice guidelines
Prof. Kim Legault
McMaster University, Canada
Muscle pain, muscle weakness and muscle inflammation: from symptoms to diagnosis
Prof. Bhaskar Dasgupta
Southend University Hospital, UK
Early arthritis: how to manage in general practice
Prof. Daniel Aletaha
Medical University of Vienna, Austria
Questions & answers
All speakers
Refreshment break
Session IV
Metabolic surgery in prevention of cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes remission
Dr. Dror Dicker
Tel Aviv University, Israel
New oral anticoagulants: when and how to use
Prof. James Douketis
McMaster University, Canada
How to keep a patient away from ICU
Prof. Waleed Alhazzani
McMaster University, Canada
Keynote lecture: Thirty years of EBM evolution: from the history to the future
Prof. Gordon Guyatt
McMaster University, Canada
Questions & answers
All speakers
Dinner at the venue
Day 3 (Saturday, May 8, 2021)
ICE Kraków Congress Centre
ul. Marii Konopnickiej 17, 30-302 Kraków
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Opening lecture
Narrative medicine: is there a place for it in today’s healthcare systems?
Prof. Malgorzata Nowaczyk
McMaster University, Canada
Session V
To be announced
Treating COPD in 2020: key messages for everyday practice
Prof. Jadwiga Wedzicha
Imperial College London, UK
Community acquired pneumonia: an update
Prof. Mark Loeb
McMaster University, Canada
Challenges in diagnosis of extrapulmonary tuberculosis
Prof. Jyotirmoy Pal
R.G. Kar Medical College, India
Questions & answers
All speakers
Refreshment break
Session VI
Challenges in choosing a medication for type 2 diabetes
Prof. René Rodríguez-Gutiérrez
Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico
Current management of Hashimoto's thyroiditis and other hypothyroid states
Prof. Leonard Wartofsky
Georgetown University, USA
When supplementation of vitamin D is justified
Prof. Bess Dawson-Hughes
Tufts University School of Medicine, USA
Best Case Report Contest awards
Questions & answers
All speakers
Lunch break
Session VII
Current management of gastroparesis
Prof. Irene Sarosiek
Texas Tech University, USA
Irritable bowel syndrome diagnosis and management: a simplified algorithm for clinical practice
Prof. Paul Moayyedi
McMaster University, Canada
Evaluating obscure overt gastrointestinal bleeding: what every internist needs to know
Prof. Ian Gralnek
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Questions & answers
All speakers
Refreshment break
Session VIII
Assessment and symptomatic treatment of chronic breathlessness
Prof. David Currow
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Holistic breathlessness services: improving mastery and reducing distress caused by breathlessness
Prof. Irene Higginson
Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, UK
Management of cancer pain according to the latest WHO guidelines
Prof. Małgorzata Krajnik
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Ludwik Rydygier Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, Poland
Questions & answers
All speakers
Closing remarks
Organizing Committee
