Internal Medicine - Research News and Information

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Which laboratory tests do students in an internal medicine clerkship need to learn about?

30 Oct 2008 A PDA (personal digital assistant) program containing information on 193 laboratory tests was provided to students during the 8-week core clerkship in internal medicine. Students used the program at their own discretion. The number of times each ... Read more...

[Group supervision of junior doctors]

25 Oct 2008 INTRODUCTION: The purpose of this pilot study was to examine how group supervision may help junior doctors recognize the learning potential in difficult on-the-job situations. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Eight junior doctors from an internal medicine ... Read more...

[A controlled study of the short-term and long-term effects of a "train the trainers" course--secondary publication]

25 Oct 2008 This is an intervention-study discussing the long-term effects of a 3-day "Train the trainers course" (TTC). In the intervention (I) group 98.4% of doctors participated in a TTC, both specialists and trainees. Knowledge about teaching skills ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Internal Medicine'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Which laboratory tests do students in an internal medicine clerkship need to learn about? 30 Oct 2008
• [Group supervision of junior doctors] 25 Oct 2008
• [A controlled study of the short-term and long-term effects of a "train the trainers" course--secondary publication] 25 Oct 2008
• Prescribing "placebo treatments": results of national survey of US internists and rheumatologists. 21 Oct 2008
• [Analysis of the quality of health care for patients with type 2 diabetes enrolled in statutory or private health plans] 5 Oct 2008
• Commentary: training internists for practice focused on meeting patient needs. 29 Sep 2008
• Commentary: Osler in a brave new world. 29 Sep 2008
• Sharpening the eye of the OSCE with critical action analysis. 29 Sep 2008
• Perspective: moving students beyond an organ-based approach when teaching medical interviewing and physical examination skills. 29 Sep 2008
• Internal medicine training in the 21st century. 29 Sep 2008
• Experiential learning of systems-based practice: a hands-on experience for first-year medical residents. 29 Sep 2008
• A conceptual framework for interprofessional and co-managed care. 29 Sep 2008
• The impact of facilitation of small-group discussions of psychosocial topics in medicine on faculty growth and development. 29 Sep 2008
• [Pediatric hematology for internists] 29 Sep 2008
• Analysis of queries sent to PubMed at the point of care: observation of search behaviour in a medical teaching hospital. 22 Sep 2008
• Bringing health care advocacy to a public defender's office. 15 Sep 2008
• Educational debt and reported career plans among internal medicine residents. 14 Sep 2008
• When money doesn't change everything. 14 Sep 2008
• Participation in and perceptions of unprofessional behaviors among incoming internal medicine interns. 8 Sep 2008
• Association of workload of on-call medical interns with on-call sleep duration, shift duration, and participation in educational activities. 8 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Internal Medicine'

Definition: A medical specialty concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the internal organ systems of adults.

Descriptor UI: D007388

Alternative terms: Internal Medicine; Medicine, Internal;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.776.409;

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; when permitted for "internal diseases": Manual 28.10; DF: INTERNAL MED