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July 2025
In Case You Missed It
Now Available: ACP's 2024-2025 Annual Report–Learn About ACP's Impact and Progress
ACP's annual report highlights ACP's progress with our organizational priorities, delivering innovative member-exclusive educational, clinical and practice resources, all in service of supporting you and the internal medicine community.
Advocacy Update
ACP Files Lawsuit With Other Medical Societies Against HHS, Secretary Kennedy for Unlawful, Unilateral Vaccine Changes
ACP filed suit with other medical societies to defend vaccine policy and put an end to the assault on science, public health, and evidence-based medicine.
Feature
Rise of GLP-1s Reaches Hospital Care
(from the July 2, 2025, ACP Hospitalist)
The recent surge in popularity of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists has required hospitalists to know about side effects and inpatient management of the drugs.
ACP Hospitalist is an online magazine for ACP members covering news and trends in hospital medicine. An ACP login is required to access this article.
I.M. Internal Medicine Spotlight
Spotlight: Brenton L. Black, MD
Dr. Black discusses how growing up in rural south Georgia made him appreciate the essential role generalists play in his community's health and well-being.
Council of Student Members Spotlight
An Ode to Our Partners
When I first got engaged at the end of my scholarly year, my first thought was How am I going to plan a wedding during my third year of medical school?
Analyzing Annals
What Would You Recommend for This Patient Interested in a Total Knee Joint Arthroplasty? Grand Rounds Discussion From Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
(from June 2025 Annals for Educators)
For patients with knee osteoarthritis and obesity, the question of how long to engage nonoperative treatments and when to pursue total joint arthroplasty involves many factors, including the patient's underlying health, their weight goals, and the inherent risks of surgery.
Annals for Educators is a Web Exclusives feature of Annals of Internal Medicine which includes activities using selected Annals articles to help medical educators in their teaching activities.
Winning Abstracts from the 2025 Abstract Competitions
Development of Profound Diastolic Dysfunction Early in Septic Shock is Associated with Mortality in a Large Animal Model and in Humans
Sepsis is a leading cause of mortality in hospitalized patients worldwide. Survivors of septic shock develop a transient marked decrease in left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) associated with increased end-diastolic volume (EDV), which resolves to near normal in 7-10 days.
Want to have your abstract featured here? ACP holds National Abstract Competitions as part of ACP Internal Medicine Meeting every year. Find out more at ACP Online.
Subspecialty and Combined Training Careers
Pulmonary Disease
Pulmonary medicine is the subspecialty of internal medicine that focuses on the diagnosis and management of disorders of the respiratory system, including the lungs, upper airways, thoracic cavity, and chest wall.
Explore the internal medicine training infographic to discover the many career pathways open to internal medicine physicians. Be sure to also check out a day in the life of an IM specialist/subspecialist.
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