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Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives
ACP Spotlight offers readers a look at ACP's current top priorities and initiatives, as well as highlights from our e-newsletter, I.M. Matters Weekly from ACP.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2024/03/latest-updates-on-acps-priorities-initiatives.htm
1 Mar 2024
Officers and Regents election results announced
The election of Officers and Regents has been completed. Terms become effective at the conclusion of the Annual Business Meeting and Town Hall scheduled to take place virtually on Sunday, May 2, 2021, from 1 to 2 p.m. EDT.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/03/officers-and-regents-election-results-announced.htm
1 Mar 2021
Pushing toward gender equity in medicine
At the Women in Medicine Summit, held virtually last October, experts offered strategies to help support women in medicine during the pandemic and beyond.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/01/pushing-toward-gender-equity-in-medicine.htm
1 Jan 2021
Phase 3 trial shows efficacy of donanemab for Alzheimer disease
In an industry-funded, placebo-controlled trial of patients with early symptomatic Alzheimer disease and amyloid and tau pathology, patients on the investigational drug donanemab showed significant slowing in worsening on the integrated Alzheimer Disease Rating Scale score.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/07/25/2.htm
25 Jul 2023
Correcting medicine's use of race in clinical algorithms
Recent efforts have pushed institutions to reconsider the use of race not just in estimating kidney function, but in a variety of algorithms and scores.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/05/correcting-medicines-use-of-race-in-clinical-algorithms.htm
1 May 2021
Trio of plenary speakers offers hope, humanity, healing
Plenary speakers Anthony S. Fauci, MD, Kimberly Manning, MD, FACP, and Rana Awdish, MD, FACP, reflected on the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism in the United States and offered ways to move forward.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/06/trio-of-plenary-speakers-offers-hope-humanity-healing.htm
1 Jun 2021
Register now for ACP's and Annals of Internal Medicine's forum on controversies in colorectal cancer screening
A panel of experts will discuss colorectal cancer screening options based on diagnostic test accuracy, effectiveness, and potential harm during the virtual live event on Dec. 6 from 3:30 to 5 p.m. ET.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2023/11/21/5.htm
21 Nov 2023
Thriving at the annual meeting in your early-career years
I.M. Ready is a new regular feature that will explore topics relevant to early-career internal medicine physicians, particularly those within five years of residency graduation.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/04/thriving-at-the-annual-meeting-in-your-early-career-years.htm
1 Apr 2023
LGBTQ care must go beyond guidelines
To make health care more inclusive, physicians can include in the medical record the use of preferred names and pronouns, information on gender-affirming hormones and surgeries, and a record of the organs that patients have and that they were born with.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2020/09/lgbtq-care-must-go-beyond-guidelines.htm
1 Sep 2020
ACP honors outstanding chapter activities with John Tooker Evergreen Awards
ACP presented John Tooker Evergreen Awards to six chapters at Internal Medicine 2012. The program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, increase member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine and improve management of the chapter.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2012/06/evergreen.htm
1 Jun 2012