General Internal Medicine Update 2026

10:00 - 10:05 Opening Remarks

Dr Diarmuid O'Shea

10:05 - 10:10 Welcome

Prof Edward Mc Kone & Dr Sam Kant

10:10 - 11:30 Cardiology

Updates in the Management of Heart Failure & What’s New in Atrial Fibrillation and Other Common Rhythms

11:30 - 12:50 Geriatrics

Recognition and Management of Delirium & Optimising Prescribing in the Older Adult

12:50 - 13:50 Lunch

13:50 - 14:30 Rheumatology

Advances in Management of Gout

14:30 - 15:50 Nephrology

Hyponatremia-Connecting the Old with the New & Guideline directed management of Hypertension and Emergencies

15:50 - 16:10 Coffee Break

16:10 - 17:30 Infectious Diseases

Updates in management of Pneumonia & UTI & Duration of Antibiotic Courses: Generalized vs Personalized Medicine

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome

9:10 - 10:30 Respiratory

New Horizons in COPD and Asthma & New insights in management of Pulmonary Embolism

10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 11:30 Plenary Talk

President of the ACP, Dr Jason Goldman

11:30 - 12:50 Endocrinology

Inpatient Management of Diabetes and DKA: An Update & Updates in anti-obesity therapeutics

12:50 - 13:30 Lunch

13:30 - 14:50 Neurology

Seizure and Syncope- Admit vs Discharge? & Stroke and Mimics for the GIM physician

14:50 - 16:10 Gastroenterology

Management of Acute liver injury and Cirrhosis in GIM & Investigation of Diarrhea and updates in common Etiologies