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Latest updates on ACP's priorities, initiatives

ACP Spotlight offers readers a look at ACP's current top priorities and initiatives, as well as highlights from our e-newsletter, I.M. Matters Weekly from ACP.


ACP announces the release of the all-new ACP MKSAP

ACP is excited to announce the release of ACP MKSAP (Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program), a new subscription-based, all-digital edition of its comprehensive learning program.

Developed by nearly 400 physician clinical editors, question writers, and peer reviewers, ACP's psychometrically validated question bank uses evidence-based question-writing principles to challenge clinical reasoning and reinforce learning. Learners can select a one-year or three-year subscription and will receive regularly updated content and new questions added annually.

ACP MKSAP includes:

  • nearly 2,000 unique multiple-choice questions, mapped to the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) blueprint and linked to related syllabus content;
  • 16 evidence-based syllabus subspecialty content areas;
  • multimedia enhancements, including clinical shorts, ultrasound scans, animated whiteboards, and explainer videos;
  • board-simulation features, including a time-lapsed question indicator, option strike-through, and highlighting;
  • 1,000+ adaptive learning digital flashcards;
  • unlimited custom quizzes plus longitudinal knowledge assessment (LKA) and ABIM Certification Exam quiz templates;
  • the Board Exam Topic Guide, featuring a convenient digitized ABIM blueprint linked to corresponding ACP MKSAP material;
  • digitized Board Basics, with easily searchable study-ready content summaries; and
  • the CORE (Confirmation of Relevant Education) assessment, which challenges users with additional questions and offers opportunities to earn achievement badges and a CORE certificate (launching April 2025)

More information is available online.

Registration is open for ACP's live, virtual POCUS Mentorship Program

ACP's Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Mentorship Program gives internal medicine physicians a chance to solidify their POCUS skills through ongoing live instruction, virtual expert-led demonstrations, online modules, and high-yield image micro-quizzes. From May through October 2025, internal medicine physicians can attend one-on-one mentored scanning sessions covering content across five key POCUS skill areas, including:

  • pulmonary ultrasound,
  • focused cardiac ultrasound,
  • kidney and bladder ultrasound,
  • evaluation of the abdomen for free fluid, and
  • focused vascular evaluations of the lower extremity for deep venous thrombosis.

All prospective participants must be practicing physicians and must have completed ACP's POCUS: Foundational Skills for Internal Medicine Physicians course (or an equivalent alternate course) or POCUS: Advanced Skills for Outpatient Practice course.

More information is available online.

Call for fall 2025 Board of Governors resolutions

Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides ACP members a voice and an opportunity to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine. When drafting a resolution, members should consider how well it fits within ACP's Mission and Goals and use the College's Strategic Priorities for guidance.

The ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members will familiarize members with the process and walk them through the essential steps. The guide covers basics that include using ACP's resources to research a topic, drafting resolution copy, and navigating submission.

Members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. All resolutions submitted by members must be approved by the chapter council in order to be submitted to ACP National. The deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the fall 2025 Board of Governors meeting is March 28.

ICYMI: Highlights from I.M. Matters Weekly

  • NOACs, aspirin carry similar risks of major bleeding, intracranial hemorrhage. Risks of major bleeding and intracranial hemorrhage were similar with therapeutic doses of the non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants (NOACs) apixaban and dabigatran versus with aspirin, a review of nine trials with more than 26,000 participants found. The review was published Feb. 11 by Annals of Internal Medicine and was summarized in the Feb. 11 I.M. Matters Weekly from ACP.
  • Vestibular suppressants associated with higher fall risk in dizzy patients. Almost one-third of older patients who presented with dizziness received a prescription for a vestibular suppressant, most commonly an antianxiety medication, and their risk of a fall was more than double that of patients who didn't get a prescription, a U.S. claims analysis found. The analysis was published Feb. 4 by the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society and was summarized in the Feb. 11 I.M. Matters Weekly from ACP.