Internal MedicineOnline courseGeneral medicine update
A 2025 internal medicine refresher for specialists — 38 Harvard faculty talks from heart failure to menopause
Harvard Updates in General Internal Medicine for Specialists 2025 records a five-day Harvard Medical School programme directed by Deborah Gomez Kwolek. More than 35 faculty, including Eric M. Isselbacher, David M. Nathan, Akshay S. Desai and Andrew E. Budson, give 38 focused talks over 41 h 50 min, with PDFs, so that a cardiologist, psychiatrist, surgeon or hospitalist can catch up on the parts of medicine outside their own field.
- 38lessons
- 41 h 50 minof lectures
- 6modules
- 2025edition
What you’ll be able to do
- Apply current thinking on ischaemic heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and hypertension
- Update your approach to diabetes, lipids, obesity, thyroid disease and osteoporosis
- Recognise how anticoagulants, VTE care and common infections are now managed
- Refresh stroke, headache, sleep and dementia essentials for day-to-day decisions
- Follow advances in prostate, breast, colon and lung cancer and genetic testing
- Consider disparities, tobacco and opioid use, and climate effects on care delivery
Inside the course
Overview session (7 h 32 min)
A condensed review of the year’s main shifts across cardiovascular care, neurology, haematology, genetics, gastroenterology and primary care — a practical starting point before the day-by-day lectures.
Days 1–2: heart, vessels, kidney and metabolism
Treatment choices in chronic ischaemic disease, blood pressure, stroke, heart failure and eye problems in primary care, then renal medicine, diabetes for subspecialists, asthma, hyperlipidaemia, anticoagulation and sleep medicine. Case-based haematology questions and foregut disease add breadth.
Days 3–4: ageing, infection, cancer and behaviour
Obesity, outpatient infections, headaches, care of older adults, AF, COPD and fracture prevention, followed by dementia, liver disease, breast cancer, smoking cessation, opioid use disorder, allergy and upper-limb pain.
Day 5: women’s health and prevention
A shorter final day on menopause, thyroid problems, prevention and health promotion, and healthcare delivery under climate change.
Built for
- Hospital specialistsStay credible on general medicine questions your patients bring from outside your specialty.
- Hospitalists and internistsA compact annual sweep of guideline changes across more than 30 fields.
- Surgeons, anaesthesiologists and psychiatristsBetter grasp of comorbidities and drug interactions in shared patients.
Curriculum
Main Session (7 h 32 min) 1 lesson
- Harvard Updates in General Internal Medicine for Specialists 2025 – Main Session
Day 1 (7 h 40 min) 9 lessons
- Course Introduction – Course Directors – Deborah Gomez Kwolek, MD
- Chronic Ischemic Heart Disease: Treatment Choices in 2025 – Eric M. Isselbacher, MD
- Review and Updates in Hypertension Management – Ksenia Blinnikova, MD, MPH
- Updates in Stroke Prevention and Treatment – Mariel G. Kozberg, MD, PhD
- Genetic Testing – David J. Einstein, MD
- Frequently Asked Questions in Hematology: A Case-Based Approach – David B. Sykes, MD, PhD
- Heart Failure Update for Subspecialists – Akshay S. Desai, MD, MPH
- Ophthalmology in Primary Care – Mina A. Farahani, MD, MS
- Diseases of the Foregut – Kyle D. Staller, MD, MPH
Day 2 (7 h 30 min) 8 lessons
- Update in Renal Medicine – David J.R. Steele, MD
- Diabetes: An Update for Subspecialists – David M. Nathan, MD
- Asthma – Nancy Lange-Vaidya, MD
- Hyperlipidemia 2025 – Scott Kinlay, MBBS, PhD
- Colon Cancer – Ramona Lim, MD
- Update on Anticoagulants and Venous Thromboembolism – Rachel P. Rosovsky, MD
- Lung Cancer Therapy – Christina L. Costantino, MD
- Overview of Sleep Medicine – James E. Mojica, MD
Day 3 (7 h 35 min) 8 lessons
- Managing Obesity – Jane S. Sillman, MD
- Common Outpatient Infections: Current Treatment Recommendations – Kristen M. Hysell, MD, MPH
- Updates in Addressing Headaches – Angeliki Vgontzas, MD
- Prostate Cancer – Marc B. Garnick, MD
- Principles of Care for the Older Adult – Deborah Lee, MD
- Atrial Fibrillation – E. Kevin Heist, MD
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease – Walter O’Donnell, MD
- New Practices for Managing Osteoporosis and Reducing Fractures – Sharon H. Chou, MD
Day 4 (7 h 43 min) 8 lessons
- Memory Loss, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Dementia Update 2025 – Andrew E. Budson, MD
- Infectious and Metabolic Liver Disease – Raymond T. Chung, MD
- Breast Cancer: Current Approaches to Diagnosis and Treatment – Michelle C. Specht, MD
- Treating Tobacco Use: Optimizing for Enduring Outcomes – Nancy A. Rigotti, MD
- Opioid Use Disorder – Ellie Grossman, MD
- Understanding Disparities in Specialty Care – Jocelyn Carter, MD, MPH and Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH
- Updates in Allergy: What to Know in 2025 – Anna R. Wolfson, MD
- Shoulder, Elbow, Wrist, Hand Pain Diagnosis and Management – Thomas J. Gill, MD
Day 5 (3 h 50 min) 4 lessons
- Women’s Health: Managing Menopause – Deborah Gomez Kwolek, MD
- Common Thyroid Problems – Gilbert H. Daniels, MD
- Disease Prevention and Health Promotion – Deborah Gomez Kwolek, MD
- Healthcare Delivery in the Face of Climate Change – Wynne Armand, MD
Before you buy
Are all the advertised topics given their own lecture?
Most are, but a few items in the programme outline, such as cancer screening and low back pain, have no dedicated title in the lesson list and may only come up within other talks.
Is this aimed at primary care physicians?
It is pitched at specialists who need a working overview of general medicine; a GP may find the depth lighter than a primary care review course.
Do I get CME credit or a certificate?
No. Clinicapedia provides the educational content only — no CME or CE credits, MOC points or certificates of completion are included with this product.
Specifications
| Format | Online video course + PDFs |
|---|---|
| Organiser | Harvard Medical School |
| Course director | Deborah Gomez Kwolek, MD |
| Contents | 6 modules · 38 lessons |
| Duration | 41 h 50 min |
| Language | English |
| Department | Internal Medicine |
| Delivery | Instant download · lifetime re-download |


