MER Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Cardio/Neuro/Onc/Pulm 2025

Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Cardio/Neuro/Onc/Pulm 2025

• – Implement treatment strategies reflective of recent guidelines and current evidence based
  medicine for heart failure
  – Recognize the clinical manifestations of valvular heart disease
  – List pharmacologic options for stroke prevention in patients with atrial fibrillation and the benefits of
  each
  – Perform a cardiovascular workup
  – Discuss evidence-based management options for Alzheimer’s disease
  – Evaluate weakness and recognize cardinal features of Parkinson’s disease as well as other
  movement disorders
  – Utilize history and physical examination to distinguish weakness from non-specific symptoms
  – Describe the differential diagnosis of headaches and migraines
  – Diagnose and manage patients with asthma
  – Design treatment strategies reflective of current evidence-based medicine for common respiratory
  infections
  – Describe the current therapeutic management of COPD
  – Discuss diagnosis and screening strategies as well as treatment plans for lung nodules and lung
  cancer
  – Identify clinical practices shown to prevent cancer
  – Discuss the diagnostic approach to the patient with suspected cancer
  – Evaluate and manage risks of the cancer survivor
  – Describe the mechanism of action of new antiplatelet agents