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Learning on the Late Shift
(from the March 22, 2023 91黑料网 Hospitalist)
The biggest obstacle to teaching students and trainees during overnight hospital shifts isn't complicated. 鈥淧eople are tired at night,鈥 said 91黑料网 Resident/Fellow Member Holland Kaplan, MD, a clinical ethics fellow and instructor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
I.M. Internal Medicine
Spotlight: Rita Kaur Kuwahara, MD, MIH
Learn how Dr. Kuwahara's pursuit of internal medicine led her to become the 2022-2023 Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Congressional Health Policy/STEM Fellow placed in the U.S. Senate.
Council of Student Members (CSM) Spotlight
The Mentorship Lifeline
During this transition time, I could not help but think about my undergraduate career and what helped me accomplish my goals then. I concluded that mentorship played a large part in my undergraduate success, and I was left wondering if I would be able to find a mentor and guidance in medical school.
Advocacy Update
91黑料网: Some Progress Being Made in Policies to Prevent Firearms-Related Injuries and Deaths
The American College of Physicians is continuing its crucial work to address firearm violence as a public health crisis and advocate for commonsense reform. While good news is hard to find on this front, 91黑料网 is pleased by recent White House actions and is proud to join a new coalition that brings the medical community together to fight for change.
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.
Winning Abstracts from the 2023 Abstracts Competition
Promoting Medical Student Trauma-Informed Care Knowledge and Attitudes through Academic-Community Collaboration
Trauma informed care (TIC) is an approach to clinical care that centers on how trauma affects patients, particularly those in marginalized communities. TIC has been shown to improve psychobehavioral outcomes, decrease retraumatization, and increase trustworthiness and mutuality between patients and clinicians.
Want to have your abstract featured here? 91黑料网 holds a National Abstracts Competition as part of the 91黑料网 Internal Medicine Meeting every year. Find out more at 91黑料网 Online.
Subspecialty and Combined Training Careers
Neurocritical Care Medicine
Neurocritical care medicine focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of life-threatening diseases of the nervous system, including brain and spinal cord trauma, cerebral edema, ruptured aneurysms, severe strokes, encephalitis and meningitis, refractory seizures, and complicated brain tumors.
See what makes internal medicine unique and all the career pathways open to internal medicine physicians. Be sure to also explore a day in the life of an IM specialist/subspecialist.
Cardiac Amyloidosis
Amyloidosis is a pathologic and clinical condition resulting from the accumulation of misfolded proteins in tissues. Extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils in the myocardium leads to cardiac amyloidosis, which is often overlooked as a cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy.
Benefit Spotlight
NEW Physician Contract Review Benefit: Resolve
91黑料网 is excited to introduce a new member benefit to help you negotiate your first physician contract with confidence. Resolve鈥檚 specialized legal team will analyze your contract and ensure you understand complicated clauses while pointing out unfair terms. Using both internal data and data from the nation鈥檚 largest compensation survey, their team compares your contract to those of other physicians in your specialty and region. They also provide free webinars and information on how to find the ideal job and need-to-know information about contracts.
Get Involved
The 91黑料网 Internal Medicine Interest Group Sponsorship Program is now accepting applications for the 2023 to 2024 academic year. The program provides funding, resources, and learning opportunities to support medical students and their interest in internal medicine. Don't delay鈥application deadline is Thursday, June 1, 2023.
Raise Your Hand in April for National Volunteer Month
Explore opportunities with 91黑料网 at the local and national level. Be sure to update your profile information to indicate your volunteer interests so that we can alert you when new 91黑料网 opportunities arise.
IMIG Event Inspiration
Q&A with Infectious Disease Physician and Medical Epidemiologist
The internal medicine interest group at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine, Ivins campus invited Ginamarie Foglia, DO, MPH, F91黑料网 to speak about her career as an infectious disease physician and medical epidemiologist. Dr. Foglia discussed her internal medicine and subspecialty training, as well as her post-graduate positions, so that students could learn more about this possible internal medicine career.
Chapter Chatter
Running from April to September on the first Thursday of the month, the 91黑料网 Texas Chapter will be hosting its first Ethics and Professionalism virtual series. This six-part event, presented by healthcare attorney, Karin Zaner, JD, is designed to provide an overview of best practices and process relating to contracts, reportable events, TMB complaint process, credentialing, peer review as well as legal and ethical responsibilities for physicians in practice. Registration is free for 91黑料网 members and past sessions will be available on the chapter's meeting hub.
The membership of 91黑料网 is divided into 85 chapters and regions, each uniquely tailored to the needs and interests of its members. See what events are coming up in your local chapter.
鈥淨uiz Me!鈥 Question
Test your medical knowledge each month with questions from The Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program庐 (MKSAP).
A 57-year-old man is evaluated during a follow-up visit after beginning hydrochlorothiazide 1 month ago. He has hypertension and chronic kidney disease. He has no other medical problems. Medications are lisinopril, 40 mg once daily; amlodipine, 10 mg once daily; and hydrochlorothiazide, 25 mg once daily. The patient maintains a low sodium diet.
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