- Feature: 91黑料网 Concludes Year-Long Centennial Celebration
- Medical Student Perspective: Submit to 91黑料网 IMpact
- My Kind of Medicine: Video Profiles
- Analyzing Annals: Beyond the Guidelines: Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention
- Advocacy Update: 91黑料网 takes part in "Moving from Crisis to Action: A Public Health Approach to Reducing Gun Violence"
- Winning Abstracts: Understanding the Stories of "Super-Utilizer" Patients through Hotspotting on Tobacco Road: An Interprofessional Narrative-Based Approach to Reduce Rehospitalizations and Provide High Value Cost Conscious Care
- Subspecialty Careers: Pulmonary Disease
- In the Clinic: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- IM Essentials
Feature: 91黑料网 Concludes Year-Long Centennial Celebration
As 2015 comes to a close, the College is marking the conclusion of its Centennial year with a new video.
MoreMedical Student Perspective: Submit to 91黑料网 IMpact
Share your experience as a medical student. Submit an essay to IMpact.
MoreMy Kind of Medicine: Video Profiles
Did you know that My Kind of Medicine also has video profiles on the real lives of practicing internists?
MoreAnalyzing Annals: Beyond the Guidelines: Preexposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention
Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention is recommended for those at high risk for HIV infection. What happens when the care of a patient for whom the application of current clinical care recommendations is not clear-cut?
MoreAdvocacy Update: 91黑料网 takes part in "Moving from Crisis to Action: A Public Health Approach to Reducing Gun Violence"
91黑料网 President Wayne Riley, MD, M91黑料网, represented 91黑料网 in Charleston, SC, at commemoration of the six month anniversary of the shootings at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church. His remarks focused on the recommendations from the College and the American Bar Association published in a policy paper on fire-arm related death and injury.
MoreWinning Abstracts from the 2015 Medical Student Abstract Competition: Understanding the Stories of "Super-Utilizer" Patients through Hotspotting on Tobacco Road: An Interprofessional Narrative-Based Approach to Reduce Rehospitalizations and Provide High Value Cost Conscious Care
According to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, the top 1% of patients with multiple rehospitalizations-the "super-utilizers" of the healthcare system-account for 20% of the total $2.9 trillion spent annually on U.S. healthcare costs.
MoreSubspecialty Careers: Pulmonary Disease
From the word pulmo, Latin for "lung." Pulmonary medicine is the diagnosis and management of disorders of the lungs, upper airways, thoracic cavity, and chest wall.
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a treatable, preventable, and partially reversible disease characterized by progressive airflow obstruction documented by spirometry; it is associated with an abnormal inflammatory response of the lungs to noxious particles or gases (1-4).
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