DOHA: The First Internal Medicine Conference held in Qatar discussed the latest practices on prevention, diagnosis and treatment of a wide range of medical conditions.
The event, organised by the Hamad Medical Corporation’s General Internal Medicine Division, gathered about 500 physicians and featured speakers from the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Libya, Italy, France, United Kingdom and the US.
“The conference is in line with the vision of HMC for our transformation into an Academic Health System, through the integration of healthcare with education and research,” said Dr Abdel Naser Elzouki, Chairman of the Organising Committee and Head of HMC’s General Internal Medicine Division.
“It brings together physicians and experts from different parts of the world and facilitates the exchange of knowledge that will have a beneficial impact on patient care,” he added.
The three-day event included plenary lectures, mini-symposia, meet-the-expert sessions, case discussions, a debate session and 11 workshops and a one-day postgraduate course on what clinicians should know about gastroenterology and liver disease in 2013. Topics revolved around the management of infectious diseases, hypertension and cardiovascular disease, liver and gastrointestinal problems, obesity, diabetes, asthma, thyroid disorders, osteoporosis, joint diseases, tuberculosis, kidney diseases, dementia, status epilepticus and many other conditions.
Participants, through a number of workshops, also had the opportunity to learn from the experts on how to produce quality research, how to convert their ideas into research and how to get their papers published in high-impact medical journals.
A poster exhibition was held concurrently with the event, where 34 hospital-based case studies were displayed, some of which featured rare conditions among patients at HMC. The case studies were chosen by a scientific committee from 46 submissions and were being reported for the first time at the conference.
The Peninsula
