July 2014

Feature: Call for Families in Internal Medicine

2015 will mark 100 years of the ACP as the professional home for internists. To help celebrate this milestone we would like to profile a few families with multiple generations of internist or internal medicine subspecialists. If your family would be interested in sharing their story, please contact Membership Development at mbrdev@acponline.org

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Medical Student Perspectives: Preclinical Pointers: Tips for 1st & 2nd Year

Advice for setting good habits early in the school year.

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My Kind of Medicine: Valerie J. Lang, MD, FACP

Communicator and collaborator, Dr. Lang discusses her journey as an internist.

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Analyzing Annals: Firearms & Public Health

A recent survey and position paper discuss firearm-related violence and public health.

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Advocacy Update: ACP Members Trek to Capitol Hill, Advocating for Physicians and Patients Alike

Highlights from ACP Leadership Day 2014.

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Winning Abstracts from the 2014 Medical Student Abstract Competition: Infliximab Induced Severe Hypertriglyceridemia and Eruptive Xanthomas

Infliximab is an anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a) therapeutic agent for treatment of inflammatory diseases such as Crohn's disease and rheumatoid arthritis.

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Subspecialty Careers: Infectious Disease

Infectious disease medicine requires an understanding of the microbiology, prevention, and management of disorders caused by viral, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections.

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In the Clinic: Community-Acquired Pneumonia

In the Clinic

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) can vary from a mild outpatient illness to a more severe disease requiring admission to a hospital or even an intensive care unit (ICU). Along with influenza, CAP is the eighth leading cause of death in persons older than age 65 in the United States and is the leading cause of death from infectious diseases.

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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.

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Highlights from ACP Internist® & ACP Hospitalist®

Disclosing medical errors the right way
After a medical error, patients want an explicit statement that an error occurred, what happened, and the implications for their health. They want an outright apology, not a statement of regret. Work from global organizations is refining the right way to disclose errors.

Get rid of GERD without unneeded costs, tests
Gastroesophageal reflux disease can be diagnosed in the office, without the need for expensive tests such as endoscopy. Learn how to make the right diagnosis while avoiding confounding symptoms that might steer a patient toward the wrong specialist.

Coagulation confusion: Advice on perioperative medication management
How to handle anticoagulants, steroid, cardiac, diabetic, and pulmonary drugs in surgical patients.

Oncologic horrors in the hospital
Problems can occur in metabolic, infectious, drug realms.

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