Featured Library Book: Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients

Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients by Talmadge King provides coverage of topics such as navigating language barriers, behavorial change, promoting adherence, and group medical visits.

Many specific populations are discussed, including patients with a history of incarceration, homeless patients, immigrant health issues, intimate partner violence, alcohol and drug users, and the medical treatment of patients with psychiatric illness. Finally, there is a chapter on caring for oneself while caring for others, with strategies for preventing burnout.

Read a review in NEJM. You can find this book under the number WA 300 M4894 2007, in the bookshelves.

Other Featured Books:
Cecil Textbook of Medicine
A Practical Guide to Palliative Care

The Trouble with Wikipedia for Medical Information

The Medical Librarian of Laika's MedLibLog describes some of the pitfalls of using Wikipedia for Medical Information. Type just about any topic into Google and a Wikipedia entry will come up, and Laika discusses some indications that doctors use Wikipedia to get medical information. Although some entries are actually written by experts, anyone can write an article, and even more importantly, anyone can edit an article. Wikipedia bills itself as the "Free Encyclopedia" but is much more fluid than a standard encyclopedia. It's not that accurate information can't be found in Wikipedia, but that the potential for altering that information is very high.

Some Physicians are attempting to create community edited encyclopedias of medical information, where all authors are physicians, as a way to increase accuracy, such as Medpedia, AskDr.Wiki, and WikiSurgery.

David Rothman, author of Internet Cool Tools for Physicians, has an extensive list of medical wikis on different topics, some of which are edited by people with medical credentials, and some of which are not.

MDLinx: Keeping Current in 5 Minutes

MDLinx is a journal article summary service that aggregates articles and research from more than 1,200 peer-reviewed journals and leading news media on a daily basis. Physician editors sort this content into 32 medical specialty sites, 36 patient sites, and more than 743 subspecialty sections, all available online.

Users can choose to view this information online or subscribe to daily newsletters. The site is sponsored by ads from the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, and market research.

There is a newsletter targeted to Medical Students, which also includes some Resident related info, with brief summaries of articles, some of which connect to free full text.

Medical Students

A sampling of Specialities:

Cardiology

Drugs

ENT

Family Medicine

Infectious Disease
Internal Medicine

OB/Gyn

Practice Management

Radiology

Pulmonology

More on Residents as Teachers

Miriam Bar-on, MD, Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education at the University of Nevada School of Medicine has put together a series of presentations on Resident Teaching Skills, from the context of UNSOM's 8 residency programs.

Introduction to RATs
Clinical Teaching Perception Inventory:(Please take, it is free)

Toolbox
1. 7 Deadly Sins made while teaching medical students

2. Presentation Skills: Short Talks

3. Feedback

4. Microskills

5. Teaching at the bedside

6. Leadership

Residents-as-Teachers or RATS

AAIM offers resources on Residents-As-Teachers of Medical Students and each other, covering topics such as bedside teaching, oral presentation, and writing progress notes, from an Internal Medicine background.

The Four C’s of the Oral Presentation
4 C’s pocket card (New!)
The Physical Examination: How Focusing Your Teaching Can Teach Students to Focus
Supplemental small group teaching cases
Bedside teaching selected annotated bibliography
Bedside teaching handout
The Read-able Progress Note
Progress note template student handout
Teaching Professionalism on the Fly
Feedback on the Fly (Updated!)
Teaching Clinical Reasoning on the Fly
Conflict Resolution (New!)
Teaching when working up a new patient (New!)

H1N1 in PA & Nationwide

The PA Dept of Health has a new website with information on H1N1 Influenza, H1N1inpa.com.

The CDC has nationwide guidelines for clinicians, as well as a widget that you can put on any site.