Internal Medicine Clerkship: Week 6

Internal Medicine Clerkship - Syllabus (PDF)

Web Based Educational Assignments For Independent Learning

REQUIRED READING:

WUSOM requires all students to complete reading of the Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment during their Internal Medicine Rotation. The publication is available through Access Medicine for all the Windsor Students.
WUSOM recommends that all students complete the Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program for Medical Students (MKSAP), a comprehensive set of test questions prepared by the ACP as a review of Internal Medicine. Questions in this booklet are representative of internal medicine content questions that they will encounter on the USMLE step 2 CK. Students may also refer to other review books geared towards Step 2 CK such as:

• Step-up Medicine
• Master the boards 2 & 3
• MCQs: USMLE World Q bank, MKSAP, Pretest

This booklet is also available for purchase at acponline.org

Students are expected to use general medical textbooks such as Harrison’s Internal Medicine for references during the course of their rotation. Online resources such as Up-to-date, Access Medicine, EBSCO host or Interactive cases in New England Journal of Medicine

CORE TOPICS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE:

Week 6 Lecture Topics: Infectious disease:

• A general approach to fever
• Septic or urosepsis shock
• Causes of lymadenopathy
• Food poisoning
• Gastroenteritis and warms
• Bacteremia
• Upper respiratory infection
• HIV disease and other viral diseases
• Nosocomial infections
• Meningitis
• Vector borne infections (Zika, Dengue, Rabies, etc.)

Quiz 6: Infectious Diseases (End of week 6)

Source:
https://www.windsor.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Internal-Medicine.pdf
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