Open Access Medical Education
Committed to sharing Internal Medicine focused lectures as free open access medical education.
In this presentation, Dr. Molly Howsare first describes the initial work-up for diagnosing cystic fibrosis. She then discusses the pathophysiology and organ system manifestations of cystic fibrosis and finishes with a discussion on treatment.
Read MoreDr. Demetra Antimisiaris is discusses polypharmacy, how it can be a geriatric syndrome, and different factors in medication-use practices leading to unintentional medication-related harm. She then presents a systematic approach to management of polypharmacy as well as the potential impact of proactive medication management.
Read MoreDr. Martin Huecker presents "Heroin in the Hospital Patient" by first discussing heroin's impact on public health. He then describes analgesia in opioid-dependent patients and ends his talk with specific clinical presentations.
Read MoreLouisville Lectures's most requested lecturer is back! Dr. Lorrel Brown presents Cardiac Arrest and her journey to discover whether education can improve the outcomes. First, she explains the postulated reasons for the variability in survival following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest as well as the gaps between the best practices and real world practices with regards to CPR. She then defines CPR skill retention rates under current methods of instruction and finishes with different ways in which ongoing educational efforts seek to improve outcomes following cardiac arrest.
Read MoreIn this presentation, Dr. Ferguson discusses how to define when Syncope is an issue and needs to be admitted as well as identifying rare manifestations of serious and potentially fatal heart conditions. He does this with the use of many different ECGs.
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In this presentation, Dr. Ryan Hurt discusses malnutrition by first describing the concept of nutritional risk in both hospital and ambulatory patients. He then explains how to recognize the complications associated with sarcopenia in elderly populations as well as different strategies to diagnose and treat patients at high nutritional risk.
Read MoreIn this presentation, our Director of Digital Media, Dr. Laura Bishop is here to discuss how to screen for depression in primary care with the help of Sara Williams. Dr. Bishop shares screening tools and how to implement them efficiently into your practice while Sara Williams discusses computer-assisted Cognitive Behavior Therapy and the shift for treatment delivery.
Read MoreDr. Nathan Spell discusses Healthcare Quality and Safety by first explaining his perspective as CQO on Emory's improvement journey as well as his perspective as a medical educator on learning improvement (QI) skills. After, he gives multiple examples of QI work to illustrate the learning objectives.
Read MoreDr. Patrick McKenzie identifies and briefly explains key areas of outpatient medicine. He then highlights aspects of outpatient medicine that are highly testable. Throughout his talk, he discusses statistics, immunizations, screening, cough, dizziness, hearing loss and tinnitus, MSK pain, dyslipidemia, obesity, and depression.
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