November 2013
- Medical Student Perspectives: Call for Article Submissions
- My Kind of Medicine: Christine Laine, MD, MPH, FACP
- IMIG Update: Club Event Idea: ACP Doctor's Dilemma®
- Analyzing Annals: Principles Supporting Dynamic Clinical Care Teams: An American College of Physicians Position Paper
- Advocacy Update: An Internist's Practical Guide to Understanding Health System Reform
- Winning Abstracts: Liraglutide (GLP-1 Receptor Agonist) is a Useful Adjunct with Insulin in the Treatment of a Rodent Model of Type 1 Diabetes
- Subspecialty Careers: Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
- In the Clinic: Migraine
- Virtual Dx - Interpretive Challenges from ACP
- Highlights from ACP Internist® & ACP Hospitalist®
Medical Student Perspectives: Call for Article Submissions
Did you know that ACP accepts article submissions from Medical Student Members for IMpact?
Share your experiences, study tips, school/life balance techniques, and relationship advice with your peers! ACP wants to know what resources are helping you survive medical school, what are you doing to prepare for exams, and are how you planning to tackle your medical school debt. Tell us your thoughts on applying to residency programs and preparing for the match.
MoreMy Kind of Medicine: Real Lives of Practicing Internists: Christine Laine, MD, MPH, FACP
Christine Laine, MD, MPH, FACP, Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine confides that she almost went to art school. Dr. Laine, an artist? Who knew?! She is the editor of one of the five most widely cited peer-reviewed medical journals in the world, a published author, a researcher, and a physician; but, according to her, as a high school student she had her sights set on going to Cooper Union, a college in New York City that offers 3 programs—art, architecture, and engineering.
MoreAnalyzing Annals: Principles Supporting Dynamic Clinical Care Teams: An American College of Physicians Position Paper
The U.S. health care system is undergoing a shift from individual clinician practice toward team-based care. In this position paper, the ACP presents its position on clinical care teams.
MoreIMIG Update: Club Event Idea: ACP Doctor's Dilemma®
Looking for an exciting event idea? Host your own ACP Doctor's Dilemma competition as an IMIG event. While ACP hosts this activity for residents at our annual meetings, your club can use this concept to recruit new members through friendly competition.
MoreAdvocacy Update: An Internist's Practical Guide to Understanding Health System Reform
Updated in October 2013 this guide is intended to serve as a practical resource for internists on health system reform legislation titled the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) that was enacted in March 2010.
MoreWinning Abstracts from the 2013 Medical Student Abstract Competition: Liraglutide (GLP-1 Receptor Agonist) is a Useful Adjunct with Insulin in the Treatment of a Rodent Model of Type 1 Diabetes
Ever since its discovery, insulin has been the cornerstone of therapy for type 1 diabetes (T1D). While insulin treatment improves glycemic control and helps prevent against ketoacidosis and diabetic-related complications, it also increases the risk of hypoglycemia and weight gain. Currently, glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists are used for the treatment of type 2 diabetes through its actions to stimulate insulin secretion, suppress glucagon secretion and to reduce food intake and body weight.
MoreSubspecialty Careers: Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (Med-Peds) residency programs provide concurrent, dual training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, and allow eligibility for board certification and practice in both disciplines. Physicians practicing Med-Peds see both adults and children in a wide variety of practice settings and practice styles. Practice settings range from outpatient primary care to inpatient hospitalist practice, and practice styles range from urgent acute illness care to the longitudinal chronic illness care of patients with congenital heart disease.
MoreIn the Clinic: Migraine
More than 90% of patients who have recurrent headache on presentation to primary care offices or emergency departments have migraine. Migraine affects approximately 13% of adults in the United States and is associated with high socioeconomic and personal impact. In the Global Burden of Disease Survey 2010, it was ranked as the third most prevalent disorder and seventh-highest specific cause of disability worldwide.
In the Clinic is a monthly feature in Annals of Internal Medicine that focuses on practical management of patients with common clinical conditions. It offers evidence-based answers to frequently asked questions about screening, prevention, diagnosis, therapy, and patient education and provides physicians with tools to improve the quality of care. Many internal medicine clerkship directors recommend this series of articles for students on the internal medicine ambulatory rotation.
Highlights from ACP Internist® & ACP Hospitalist®
Patients
increasingly checking 'Dr. Google'
More than a third of patients have gone online to identify a
medical condition, raising concerns about "cyberchondria" and
requiring physicians to adapt to help patients differentiate the
helpful websites from the misleading ones.
Coping
skills, counseling best for low back pain
Despite all the best evidence and guidelines, patients with low
back pain are still spending time, effort and money on things that
aren't helping them in the long run.
Eponymous
chest pain
A hectic day is made worse by a know-it-all fellow.