HUM-MOLGEN events: INFECTIOUS DISEASE 2002 BOARD REVIEW COURSE: 7th Annual Comprehensive Review for Board Preparation

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INFECTIOUS DISEASE 2002 BOARD REVIEW COURSE: 7th Annual Comprehensive Review for Board Preparation

April 26, 2002

Center for Bio-Medical Communication, Inc., The Ritz-Carlton, Tysons Corner, McLean, Virginia
October 5-9, 2002

This course is designed specifically for physicians planning to take the Infectious Disease Subspecialty Examination of the American Board of Internal Medicine. This course is also suitable for physicians planning to take Infectious Disease subsections of other board examinations. This comprehensive course will cover clinical aspects of diseases likely to be encountered by infectious disease specialists in internal medicine, including clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, epidemiology, host defense mechanisms, and antimicrobial pharmacology. Viruses, parasites, bacteria, mycobacteria, fungi, Chlamydia, and Rickettsia will be covered. Diagnosis and treatment of HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases; diseases of travelers, immunocompromised patients, critical care patients, and organ transplant recipients will be discussed. After completing the course, attendees will be more confident of their ability to perform well on the upcoming Infectious Disease Subspecialty Examination and will have improved their clinical knowledge.

OBJECTIVES
- To improve the test scores of physicians taking the Infectious Disease Subspecialty Examination of the American Board of Internal Medicine
- To improve clinical skills and expand clinically relevant basic knowledge of infectious disease subspecialists
- To review the important aspects and recent advances in clinical infectious disease, as selected from the range of infectious diseases encountered by physicians taking care of adult patients

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Fellows preparing for the Infectious Disease Subspecialty Examination of the American Board of Internal Medicine
- Infectious disease specialists preparing for recertification
- Internists preparing to take an Infectious Disease module as a part of recertification in internal medicine
- Physicians seeking a comprehensive overview of the field of Infectious Disease

Organized by:

Center for Bio-Medical Communication, Inc.

Invited Speakers:

COURSE DIRECTORS
John E. Bennett, MD, MACP*
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Henry Masur, MD*
Clinical Professor of Medicine
George Washington University School of Medicine
Washington, DC
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

And 19 other distinguished faculty members.

Deadline for Abstracts:

N/A

Registration:

Postmarked On or Before 7/12/02
Physicians $750
Physicians-in-Training $600

After 7/12/02
Physicians $950
Physicians-in-Training $750

E-mail:

cmeinfo@cbcbiomed.com

Posted by:

Dina McCarthy

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