These are the abstracts of the free communications of the Third Qatar Internal Medicine Conference held on 6th-8th October 2016 in Doha, Qatar. The program of the conference had different types of sessions include plenary lectures, mini-symposia, clinical debates, 12 workshops in different aspects of Internal Medicine, and a preconference post-graduate course on “Best Practice in Internal Medicine”, were conducted by invited panel of international, regional and local experts. The conference was endorsed by the American College of Physicians, Society of Hospital Medicine-USA, Mediterranean Association for Study of Liver Disease, and Mediterranean Task Force for Cancer Control. It was also supported by the Royal college of Physicians of London. In addition to the plenary sessions, free communications selected from submitted abstracts were presented as oral communications or posters. These reflected regional disease profiles, patterns of clinical practice and locally conducted clinical and basic research. The focus of this abstract book is to disseminate specifically free communications as this is the unique feature of the conference. We hope by doing this, we expand the message of the congress to those who could not make it to the live events.
Key-words:
Medicine - Quality - Education - Research - Professionalism - Evidence - Clinical - Regional - Qatar.
