Louisville Lectures

Open Access Medical Education

Committed to sharing Internal Medicine focused lectures as free open access medical education.

Reflections on "Hearing Voices" with Dr. André Churchwell

Dr. Churchwell takes listeners on a journey through different mentors he has had throughout his life beginning with his childhood to his current career. With each mentor, he provides insight to their character and teaching methods specific to how they learned things themselves. Dr. Churchwell emphasizes the care each of his mentors had to their patients and friends and how their intelligence was translated through their dedication and passion. 

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Understanding and Preventing Physician Burnout with Eric Baker

Eric Baker presents Physician Burnout by first discussing burnout in terms of psychology from occupational burnout to job burnout. He then explains statistics involved with physician burnout through various graphs and charts comparing different scenarios from med students and residents compared to the general population as well as how burnout differs between physicians.

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Vasculitis with Dr. Charles Moore

In this lecture, Dr. Moore presents Vasculitis. He begins by giving a broad and simple definition of vasculitis before moving on to different cases. He then goes on to discuss various types of vasculitis from large-vessel vasculitis to small-vessel vasculitis.

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Sarcoidosis with Dr. Rafael L. Perez

Dr. Perez presents sarcoidosis by first taking listeners along the case of a healthy 28 year old nonsmoker with two months of having a dry cough, bilateral ankle pain, no fever and no rashes with normal exams. He then begins to explain and compare the different signs for sarcoidosis and how they may instead be a link to other diseases.

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