Open Access Medical Education
Committed to sharing Internal Medicine focused lectures as free open access medical education.
Dr. Bryan Moffett outlines a practical algorithm to considering both acute diarrhea. He then approaches treatment for acute and chronic diarrhea. Finally, he cements this knowledge by presenting several cases.
Read MoreDr. Ramirez delivers a summary of patterns of bacteremia and treatments.
Read MoreDr. Roberts addresses one of the age-old discussions between medicine and surgery: what to do with an inflamed pancreas? He does a brief review of presentation, etiology, severity assessment, complications of pancreatitis and then spends a good deal of time on endoscopic and surgical treatments for pancreatitis and it's complications.
Read MoreJulie Harting covers penicillins and cephalosporins including cases, adverse reactions, and other considerations.
Read MoreJulie Harting focuses primarily on basic antimicrobial principles including pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, elimination), mechanisms of bacterial resistance and real-life considerations when ordering antibiotics on rounds.
Read MoreDr. Nancy Kubiak discusses principles of quality improvement: practiced based learning, PDSA cycles (Plan, Do, Study, Act). She then leads us through the creation of an aim statement and implementation of a PDSA project.
Read MoreDr. Lina MacKelaite gives a case-based, practical lecture on the topic of renal transplant with a focus on evaluation, qualification, benefits and management. She also discusses complications after transplant.
Read MoreDr. Espinoza covers basic cardiac electrophysiology and what happens when it goes awry! He discusses supraventricular tachycardias (sinus tachycardia, atrial tachycardia, AVRT, AVNRT), atrial fibrillation and flutter, Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. He discusses recognizing features of ventricular tachycardia to differentiate it from SVT. Finally, he addresses management of tachycardias.
Read MoreDr. Russell Farmer covers the acute abdomen for internists (from a surgeon's perspective). He reviews history and physical findings tailored to an acute abdomen and works through cases to discuss the following: diverticulitis, appendicitis, pancreatitis, peptic ulcer disease, bowel obstruction, cholecystitis, ovarian torsion, testicular torsion.
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