Description

+ Include:  videos + file sub vtt, size:  GB

+ Target Audience: Dermatologists, Endocrinologists, Neurologists, and physicians specializing in Medical Risk Management

+ Sample video: contact me for sample video

+ Information:

Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Derm/Endo/Neuro/Risk Mgmt

July 02–05, 2026
The Fairmont Banff Springs — Banff, Alberta, Canada
Medical Education Resources (MER)

Internal Medicine for Primary Care: Derm/Endo/Neuro/Risk Mgmt is a four-day Medical Education Resources conference designed to provide office-based primary care clinicians with practical updates across Dermatology, Endocrinology, Neurology, and Medical Risk Management.

The program combines common clinical problems encountered in primary care with practical approaches to diagnosis, treatment, prevention, patient safety, documentation, communication, and medicolegal risk reduction. The Endocrinology curriculum covers type 2 diabetes, lipid disorders, thyroid disease, osteoporosis, and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH). The Neurology curriculum addresses weakness, dementia, headaches and migraines, and cerebrovascular disorders. Dermatology sessions focus on dermatitis, papulosquamous disorders, acne and acneiform eruptions, and cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease. Risk Management sessions address malpractice, informed consent, shared decision-making, disclosure of adverse or unexpected outcomes, clinical documentation, and the implications of artificial intelligence in medicine.

The conference also examines the practical use of artificial intelligence in clinical medicine, including its potential benefits for clinical decision-making, imaging, communication, documentation, and administrative workflows, together with emerging patient-safety and medical-liability concerns.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of the program, participants should be better able to:

• Develop practical strategies for reducing and managing situations that may create malpractice liability in primary care practice.
• Explain how appropriate informed-consent procedures and shared decision-making can reduce risk for healthcare providers.
• Recognize examples of adequate clinical documentation and understand how documentation can reduce liability and improve patient safety.
• Apply strategies for incorporating artificial intelligence tools into clinical practice while considering patient outcomes, operational issues, safety, and liability.
• Develop individualized treatment plans for patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, including diagnosis, treatment, screening, prediabetes, and management of diabetic emergencies.
• Apply current approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of dyslipidemia, including individualized management for primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention.
• Recognize the clinical significance and potential risks associated with abnormal thyroid function.
• Evaluate the benefits, risks, and appropriate clinical use of bisphosphonates and other treatment approaches for osteoporosis.
• Use the history and physical examination to distinguish true neurologic weakness from nonspecific complaints or symptoms.
• Discuss evidence-based diagnostic and management approaches for Alzheimer disease and other dementias.
• Construct an appropriate differential diagnosis for migraine and other headache disorders and select suitable treatment approaches.
• Apply prevention and treatment strategies for cerebrovascular disorders, including recognition of high-risk presentations and transient neurologic symptoms.
• Differentiate among common forms of dermatitis, including atopic, contact, and nummular dermatitis, based on clinical presentation and causes.
• Apply diagnostic principles and treatment approaches to papulosquamous diseases presenting with red or raised/scaly lesions.
• Use a stepwise diagnostic and therapeutic approach to acne and acneiform eruptions, including selection of topical and systemic treatment according to disease severity.
• Recognize cutaneous manifestations of systemic disease and use skin findings as clues or surrogate markers for underlying internal disorders.

Target Audience

This program is targeted to office-based primary care providers and other health professionals with updates in primary care medicine.

Best for Dermatologists, Endocrinologists, Neurologists, and physicians specializing in Medical Risk Management.

Topics

Risk Management

The Anatomy of Medical Malpractice

• Key components required for a malpractice claim in the clinical practice setting.
• Assessment of malpractice exposure in both common and unusual clinical situations.
• Practical risk-management strategies intended to prevent malpractice claims.

Risky Business: Consent and Communication

• Essential components of an effective informed-consent process.
• The role of shared decision-making and its distinction from a mandatory obligation imposed on the healthcare provider.
• Importance of communicating unexpected or unanticipated clinical outcomes at an early stage.
• Practical approaches to discussing, disclosing, and reconciling unexpected events with patients, families, and other healthcare professionals.

Documentation: Effective Strategies and Pitfalls

• Major patient-safety and litigation-risk issues associated with the quality of medical documentation.
• What constitutes adequate documentation during a clinical encounter.
• Situations in which more comprehensive documentation and direct communication with other clinicians can reduce adverse outcomes.
• How appropriate documentation can support shared decision-making and improve patient safety.

AI in Medicine: Promise, Practice, and Pitfalls

• How artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare and medical practice.
• Basic understanding of how AI systems work.
• Clinical applications of AI, including clinical decision support and medical imaging.
• Use of AI for communication, documentation, and administrative workflows.
• Potential improvements in efficiency and patient outcomes.
• Social, operational, legal, and patient-safety challenges associated with AI.
• Emerging implications of AI for medical liability and risk management.

Endocrinology

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

• Diagnosis and treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
• Lessons and clinical implications from the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT).
• Recognition and management of diabetic emergencies.
• Appropriate screening strategies.
• Identification and management of prediabetes.

Lipid Metabolism and Treatment

• Review of contemporary American Heart Association dietary and lipid-management recommendations.
• Application of current diabetes-related lipid-management recommendations for both primary and secondary cardiovascular prevention.
• Assessment and treatment of elevated triglyceride levels.
• Current evidence regarding fish-oil therapy and cardiovascular outcomes.

Disorders of Thyroid Function

• Epidemiology of thyroid disorders.
• Recognition and diagnosis of hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
• Pathophysiology underlying abnormal thyroid function.
• Current treatment options for thyroid dysfunction.

Osteoporosis and Update on the Diagnosis and Treatment of MASH

• Epidemiology and pathophysiology of osteoporosis.
• Interpretation of DEXA results.
• Use of FRAX for fracture-risk assessment.
• Current evidence-based therapeutic options for osteoporosis.
• Updated approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH).

Neurology

Evaluating Weakness

• Use of the history and physical examination to distinguish true muscle or neurologic weakness from nonspecific symptoms.
• Clinical characteristics that help identify neurologic diseases causing weakness.
• Recognition and evaluation of representative disorders of the nervous system that may present with weakness.

Alzheimer’s & Other Dementias

• Definition and epidemiology of dementia.
• Normal neurologic changes associated with aging.
• Pathologic mechanisms and current theories concerning dementia.
• Vascular dementias and their clinical features.
• Appropriate diagnostic investigations.
• Social and functional issues associated with dementia.
• Symptomatic treatment.
• Emerging and investigational therapeutic approaches.

Headaches & Migraines

• Basic mechanisms underlying headache disorders.
• Comprehensive headache history, including headache characteristics and precipitating factors.
• Identification of relevant associated medical conditions.
• Major migraine presentations, including common migraine, classic migraine, complicated migraine, and cluster headache.
• Differential diagnosis involving tension-type headache and other headache syndromes.
• Trigeminal neuralgia.
• Giant cell arteritis.
• Brain tumor as a secondary headache cause.
• Subarachnoid hemorrhage as a potentially life-threatening secondary headache.
• Emergency-department approaches to the evaluation and treatment of severe headache.

Cerebrovascular Disorders

• Epidemiology of cerebrovascular disease.
• Identification of patients at increased cerebrovascular risk.
• Effects and implications of treatment.
• Recognition and evaluation of transient neurologic deficits involving carotid and vertebrobasilar circulation.
• Assessment of nonspecific cerebral symptoms.
• Differentiation of migraine from transient ischemic attack (TIA).
• Available treatment and prevention strategies for cerebrovascular disease.

Dermatology

Dermatitis

• Recognition of common clinical subtypes of dermatitis.
• Diagnostic evaluation of inflammatory skin eruptions.
• Management considerations for common forms of dermatitis.
• Atopic dermatitis.
• Contact dermatitis, including irritant and allergic forms.
• Seborrheic dermatitis.
• Other common dermatitis presentations encountered in primary care.

Papulosquamous Diseases

• Diagnostic principles for skin lesions presenting as red or purple papules and plaques.
• Recognition and differentiation of psoriasis.
• Recognition and differentiation of lichen planus.
• Recognition and differentiation of pityriasis rosea.
• Recognition of cutaneous manifestations of lupus erythematosus.
• Practical methods for distinguishing one scaly eruption from another based on clinical findings.

Acne and Acneiform Eruptions

• Clinical evaluation of acne.
• Recognition of rosacea and differentiation from acne.
• Evaluation of selected follicular disorders.
• Determination of treatment according to the severity or grading of acne.
• Stepwise diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
• Appropriate use of topical therapy.
• Appropriate use of systemic therapy.

Skin Manifestations of Systemic Disease

• Recognition that cutaneous findings may provide important clues to underlying systemic disease.
• Use of skin manifestations as diagnostic indicators or surrogate markers of internal disease.
• Recognition of dermatologic findings associated with rheumatologic conditions.
• Recognition of cutaneous findings associated with endocrine disorders.
• Recognition of skin manifestations associated with gastrointestinal disease.
• Recognition of dermatologic findings associated with psychologic and psychiatric conditions.
• Identification of skin abnormalities resulting from systemic disease or complications of its treatment.