Internal Medicine: The guide to residency.

This book will give you the information you need on the most common symptoms and their diagnosis while increasing your confidence during residency. As medicine can be detailed and sometimes complicated, it is challenging to apply years of medical education in just a few minutes. This guide is designed to make an Internal Medicine Resident successful, but will be an effective supplement for any of the following disciplines:

-Family Medicine Residents

-Third & Fourth Year Medical Students

-Nurse Practitioners

-Physician Assistants

-Any Clinical Residency Internship



Table of Contents

Preface

Foreword

Cardiopulmonary

1. Chest pain

2. Shortness of breath

3. Congestive heart failure

4. Coronary Artery Disease

5. Cough

6. Hypertension

7. Arrhythmia

8. Atrial Fibrillation

9. Asthma & COPD

10. Pneumonia

11. Medical Intensive Care Unit/Hypotension/Cardiac Arrest

12. Acute respiratory failure & basics for oxygen therapy

13. Cardiology diagnostics & interventions

14. Hemoptysis

Gastroenterology

15. Abdominal Pain

16. Nausea & vomiting

17. GI bleed

18. Diarrhea

19. Constipation

Infectious Disease

20. Antibiotics

21. Fever

22. White blood count

23. Immune status

24. Cellulitis & Osteomyelitis

25. Infective endocarditis

26. Clostridium difficile infection

27. Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus

Nephrology

28. Acute kidney injury/Chronic Kidney Disease/End stage Renal Disease

29. Urinary tract infection

30. Volume Overload

31. Volume Depletion

32. Electrolyte imbalances

Neurology

33. Falls, syncope, & loss of consciousness

34. Altered Mental Status

35. Headaches

36. Pain

Geriatric

37. Geriatric medicine

38. Palliative/supportive care & hospice care

Miscellaneous

39. Diabetes mellitus

40. Anticoagulation

41. Anemia

42. Night float

43. Alarming findings

44. IV lines, IV fluids, Foley catheters & contrast material

45. Medicine facts (side effects, onset of side effects, & off-label therapeutic uses)

46. Medical vs. Surgical Management

47. Home vs. floor vs. MICU triage

48. Outpatient Medicine

49. Diet & Physical/Occupational Therapy

50. Diseases and diagnosis need high suspicion

51. Cost-effective medicine

52. Refer to specialist & inpatient consultation

53. Common unclear diagnoses

54. Different approaches for common problems

55. Social support & social history

56. Incidental findings & mildly abnormal tests

57. Medical futility

58. Cascade of actions for common problems

Abbreviations

List of medications commonly used

References