Brian A. Wells, MD, MS, MPH
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Acid-base disorders are commonly encountered in medicine. It is therefore important for the practitioner to know how to accurately interpret acid-base information as obtained from arterial blood gases, serum chemistries, urine electrolytes, and other sources. The below table can be used to quickly evaluate acid-base disorders. Continue reading
Filed under: EBM, Endocrinology, Primary Care Topics, Survival Guides | Tagged: abg, acid-base, acidosis, alkalosis | Leave a comment »
Tree in bud sign – describes the CT chest appearance of multiple centrilobular nodules that are connected by branching opacified bronchioles. Although initially described in patients with endobronchial tuberculosis, it is now recognized in a large number of conditions ranging from small airways infections like mycobacterium avium complex, to connective tissue diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, to neoplastic conditions like bronchioloalveolar cell carcinoma.
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In patients with stable coronary artery disease or low-risk ACS treated with zotarolimus-eluting stents, 3 months of dual antiplatelet therapy was noninferior to 12 months for NACCE, without significantly increasing the risk of stent thrombosis.
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1765224
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The video below demonstrates the mobile interface for the Intern Survival Guide. Covered is how to get to the website, how to navigate, how to search, and how to add a quick link for future use.
Intern Survival Guide – http://wiki.sbuim.com
If the below video will not play because you institution blocks YouTube, the video is mirrored here.
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As of today, the SBUIM.com Blog now uses a plugin which allows authors to add PubMed citations to posts using the PMID with deep integration to the Read by QxMD service. It’s now easier than ever to cite articles and evidence when you’re writing for SBUIM.com! Thanks to Dr. Susan Lane for suggesting adding this feature.
How it works: http://www.qxmd.com/company/support-faq/pmid-citations-with-read
And here’s a sample of what this integration looks like:
[PMID]24129556[/PMID]
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Ultrasound is a burgeoning area of internal medicine. It’s just not for radiologists anymore.
Multiple specialties are identifying ways to utilize this minimally invasive imaging tech to improve clinical care.
Here’s a blog post about the topic of Ultrasound curriculum for Internal Medicine
Here’s a really cool resource if you’re interested in Ultrasound
It’s a compilation of small ultrasound snippets of clinical findings
Enjoy!
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Diabetes. It’s something we all have to manage at some point. Whether you are working in a primary care clinic or working as a hospitalist, there is a very good chance that at least some of your patients will have diabetes. So, in order to deliver the best care in an evidence-based way, guidelines have been developed and are routinely updated.
Below are the 2013 guidelines on the comprehensive management of diabetes from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. Continue reading
Filed under: Diabetes, Endocrinology, Primary Care Topics | Tagged: diabetes, endocrinology, primary care | Leave a comment »
So this afternoon, I get the distinct pleasure of being part of a new project here at Stony Brook Internal Medicine.
Under the direction of our wonderful associate Program director Dr. Rachel Wong, we have started a peer mentoring program in our residency program. Along with one of our chief resident’s Dr. Ali Sheikh, this afternoon we will continue this very cool project.
Mentoring is a broad concept, and everyone has different ideas about it. Today’s workshop will go into some very specific elements of mentoring such as “Mission Statements”, “Personal Networking Maps” ” Peer Check-ins, ” and more.
As a physician and especially as a young trainee, I may walk into this asking, what is this really about? Is this useful? It’s not about diseases, it’s not about evidence based medicines, it’s not about diagnostic tests or the latest drug developments, it’s not about patient care. So what’s the point of committing 3 hours of potentially valuable resident time to such a project?
Well, when I take a step back and look at this, the program to me is about 1 thing.
Filed under: Stories/Lectures, Survival Guides | Tagged: greatness, internal Medicine, mentoring, residency, Stony Brook | Leave a comment »
Below is a brief video tutorial on how to create an account on the Stony Brook Internal Medicine Blog using an existing social media account.
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Have a great teaching file or case presentation, but don’t have the time to create an account or a post? Let us take care of it for you! Simply upload your file using the form below and sbuim.com will convert your presentation into a post for all to see!
IMPORTANT: Do not close this window or navigate away until you see the message “File successfully uploaded!” Doing so will end the upload, and your teaching file will not be received.
[rad-dropbox dir=”WPUloads/” button=”Upload!”]
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