At the Vladimir Ilich Lenin General University Hospital, internal medicine knowledge was updated. As part of the Provincial Scientific Conference on the specialty, HOLINTER 2025. This was an opportunity to exchange knowledge on issues of interest to the internist community and other related specialties.
According to the young President of the Holguin Chapter of the Cuban Society of Internal Medicine, Wilber Jesús Riverón Carralero. “The virtual session took place during the months of June and July, through platforms such as Cencomed. Where healthcare professionals from the province, other regions of Cuba, and the world socialized, shared work, and commented on published articles.”
“We also held a provincial conference for student assistants and residents, held knowledge gatherings, and held pre-event courses aimed at strengthening scientific knowledge. In the use of evidence-based medicine, clinical calculators, carotid and vertebral ultrasound. As another important diagnostic method in medicine, and the currently popular artificial intelligence.”
At this event, which takes place every two years in Holguin, a roundtable discussion on Noncommunicable Diseases was held. This event brought together highly qualified scientific professionals. Who offered keynote addresses as panelists. Drs. Elio Edgar Lozano Álvarez, Reyber Jesús Domínguez Pérez, and Juan Carlos Baster Moro, Presidents of the Holguin chapters of Endocrinology, Cardiology, and Family Medicine, respectively.
In this regard, Riverón Carralero noted that special recognition was given to the professors who have been paradigms of the specialty of Internal Medicine over the years, both in the secondary care unit and in Primary Health Care (PHC). As the internist’s profile goes beyond a hospital setting.
This chapter is comprised of specialists in both internal medicine and other related clinical specialties, and has been particularly enriched by the incorporation of the scientific pool. Added the young member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences.
The approximately 200 members of the Holguin Chapter of this society met to discuss topics inherent to the daily work of clinicians. Thanks to multidisciplinary work.
In the years between the scientific conferences, refresher workshops are held. A workshop on tuberculosis was held in 2024, and another on HIV is planned for 2026.
The Provincial Scientific Conference on Internal Medicine is convened jointly with the University of Medical Sciences of Holguin (UCMHo). Also the Provincial Council of Scientific Health Societies to contribute to the development of the specialty. Focusing on public care and the defense of the clinical-epidemiological method.
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