Scholarship

Training in scholastic preparation is integral to medical training, as we life long learners and educators. As part of your clinical training in our program, you will also be required to participate in academic exercises to help lay the foundation for your future as a peer and patient educator.  Our Journal Club Classics is a didactic peer education project that identifies the key articles shaping the standard of care in Internal Medicine. Residents are required to prepare PowerPoint presentations of an article review from one of the papers selected for Journal Club Classics on a rotating basis. Additionally, all residents must submit a scholarly work during the second and third year of training.  This may be a research abstract, the PowerPoint presentation of an oral presentation given at a local or national meeting, a published or submitted manuscript or a clinical vignette written up about an interesting case.  Our residents achieve significant success in these activities, including awards at local, state and national meetings. Residents who are invited to present at the ACP are supported by the Department of Medicine. All third year residents give a grand rounds style peer teaching didactic presentation to their peers and faculty as part of the hospital based noon conference curriculum.

Recent ACP Award Winning Clinical Vignettes

  1. A Confusing Diagnosis of a Cavernous Sinus Lesion. Melanie Stickrath, M.D.
  2. A Rare Case Cause of Refactory Nausea and Vomiting. Bart Moulton, M.D.
  3. Awake and Alert with a pC02 of 111mm Hg: An Interesting Case of Chronic Alveolar Hypoventilation. Alexandria Smart, M.D.
  4. A Woman with HIV Presenting with Chylothorax. Gabriel A Brooks, M.D.
  5. Refractory Diarrhea in a Young Man as a Complication of Nissen Fundoplication. Tibor Krisko, M.D.
  6. Splenic Infarction in Sickle Cell Trait, Alexandria Villacres, M.D.
  7. Coccidiomycosis Brain Abscess: An Exceedingly Rare Manifestation of Coccidioides Immitis Infection in a Diabetic Patient. Ryan Oyer, M.D.
  8. A Catastrophic Case of Bupivacaine Toxicity. Herman O. Lyle, M.D.
  9. The Mystery of the Racing Heart: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Associated with an Anomalous Inferior Vena Cava in a Young Athlete. Sarah A Stella, M.D.
  10. Pulmonary Capillaritis in a Patient with Multiple Myeloma. Eiko Browning, M.D.
  11. Iliac Vein Compression Syndrome: A Common Finding, Not Always Benign. Elisa Carniel, M.D.

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