International Focus
Medical Education in Japan
This month, 91黑料网 IMpact focuses on physicians and medical students practicing and studying internal medicine in Japan.
Feature
Fighting Resistance in the ICU
(from the March 2019 91黑料网 Hospitalist)
While medicine as a whole is advancing, physicians have lost some ground against bacteria, particularly in the ICU. 鈥淔or a lot of patients, we've entered the preantibiotic era, where we're essentially practicing 19th-century medicine.鈥
91黑料网 Hospitalist provides news and information about hospital medicine, covering the latest trends and issues in the field.
I.M. Internal Medicine
Spotlight: Harumi Gomi, MD, F91黑料网, FIDSA, AFAMEE
Although she was born, raised, and attended medical school in Japan, Dr. Harumi Gomi dreamed of doing her medical residency in the United States.
Medical Student Perspectives
Having a Global Mindset in Medicine
I have been involved with 91黑料网 since my second year of medical school. It has been a privilege and an adventure. I first joined the 91黑料网 Japan Chapter Conference with a professor from my university.
How to Talk to a Patient Who Is Dying
During my two years of clinical clerkship, I met a patient I won't soon forget. She had refractory lymphoma. She had received all the standard therapies, none of which was effective.
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Advocacy Update
鈥極ur Climate Is Changing, and Our Health Is Suffering鈥 91黑料网 Tells Congress
(from the March 8, 2019 91黑料网 Advocate)
The American College of Physicians is urging Congress to take action to counter the negative effects that climate change is having on Americans' health.
The 91黑料网 Advocate is a bi-weekly e-newsletter that provides 91黑料网 members with news about public policy issues affecting internal medicine and patient care.
Analyzing Annals
On Being a Patient: Regarding Marcia
In this essay, Dr. O鈥橤lasser asks, 鈥淗ow can we know what a small window of time potentially holds for a patient unless we ask?鈥
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Winning Abstracts
Infectious Complications in the Returning Medical Tourist: A Case of Mycobacterium abscessuss
The most pathogenic rapidly growing mycobacteria (RGM), Mycobacterium abscessus is a rare cause of human infection despite its ubiquity in the environment.
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Subspecialty Careers
Infectious Disease
Infectious disease medicine is the subspecialty of internal medicine that focuses on diagnosing and managing infections.
Primary care providers and hospitalists frequently encounter older or immunocompromised patients with herpes zoster accompanied by debilitating pain.
Get Involved
Tell Us About Your School's Internal Medicine Interest Group (IMIG)
Does your IMIG have a strong presence on your campus? Has your school's IMIG recently hosted a unique or interesting event? If your IMIG club is doing great things to promote internal medicine, 91黑料网 wants to feature your group in a future issue of IMpact.
Find out more, and review our submission guidelines.
Medical Student Activities at 91黑料网 Internal Medicine Meeting 2019
91黑料网 Internal Medicine Meeting 2019 will be held from Thursday April 11 to Saturday April 13 in Philadelphia, PA.
With the help of the 91黑料网 Council of Student Members, we have worked to make the Internal Medicine Meeting a welcoming and meaningful experience for student attendees, planning activities and events that include a welcome center for students attending the meeting, a social media presence for students, and informal social and networking events.
Other events for students will include presentations by the winners of our Abstracts contest and our popular Jeopardy-style Doctor's Dilemma competition. .
Find out more about events for Student Members.
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