Some fresh impressions from the boards: 1. know your cardiac murmurs and PFTs 2. know your hepatitides 3. get used to the 80 year old with proximal muscle weakness: really, she's coming again? 4. know your guidelines, especially on cardiovascular risk factor modification and it's relative impact 5. know about post-infectious complications of all sorts 5. altogether a more reasonable exam than the USMLEs, closer to what we actually see and do 6. read, read and read; and do the MKSAP questions, all of them; and read.... I hope you all had some good learning on the wards and at resident report. Some follow-up to last weeks sessions: 1. In her noon conference on OSA, Neomi Shah had mentioned that OSA might have protective effects in an acute MI. I asked her for some references and here is her reply: 'My study at Monte is the first to show this potential cardioprotective role of OSA in the setting of an acute MI. However, it has been shown in animal models.' Attached a short piece from Chest that she sent along. She'll let us know when her data are published. 2. In regards to last weeks CRS, our very own Hector Perez co-authored a piece in Neurology on leptomeningeal metastases, paper attached |
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