Multidisciplinary Skills for the Internist Question 1 A 55-year-old woman with a past medical history of hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and proteinuric chronic kidney disease from uncontrolled diabetes is admitted to…
Genetic Diseases M. Chadi Alraies Franklin A. Michota RAPID BOARD REVIEW—KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER: Most diseases encountered in the practice of medicine have genetic components in both the cause and…
Psychiatric Disorders in Medical Practice Kathleen Franco-Bronson David B. Chaiffetz RAPID BOARD REVIEW—KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER: DEPRESSION Patient should have been depressed or dysphoric most of the day, for ≥2…
Occupational Medicine Peter J. Mazzone Debasis Sahoo Edward P. Horvath Jr. RAPID BOARD REVIEW—KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER: Asphyxiants—Carbon Monoxide Nonexposed persons have ≤1% blood carboxyhemoglobin. Smokers as high as 18%….
Dermatology Melissa Peck Piliang Kenneth J. Tomecki RAPID BOARD REVIEW—KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER: An awareness and appreciation of the cutaneous manifestations of systemic diseases help guide the internist in determining…
Geriatric Medicine Ronan Factora Barbara J. Messinger-Rapport RAPID BOARD REVIEW—KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER: Hypertension Secondary analysis of major hypertensive studies in older adults finds a nadir for adverse cardiovascular outcomes…
Perioperative Evaluation and Management for Noncardiac Surgery Andrei Brateanu RAPID BOARD REVIEW—KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER: Cardiovascular Risk Assessment The stepwise approach to preoperative cardiac assessment Patients that require emergency surgery…
Ocular Manifestations of Systemic Disease Jack Shao Careen Y. Lowder RAPID BOARD REVIEW—KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER: The leading causes of blindness in the United States are macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy,…
Biostatistics in Clinical Medicine: Diagnostic Tests Gerald J. Beck RAPID BOARD REVIEW—KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER: The relationship between a dichotomous classification of a diagnostic test result and the presence or…
