Are you struggling with a complicated acid-base disturbance case?
AccessMedicine now includes 58 new Acid-Base Disturbance Cases to help both students and practicing providers hone their skills and master these difficult concepts. These cases are progressive, complex cases appropriate for the advanced medical student and resident level physician covering double and triple acid-base disturbances. The questions are multiple choice and build on each other so they must be answered before moving on to the next page. Each question provides the user with a rationale for the correct answer to maximize learning. Navigate to the Hospital Corner or Cases tab in the main navigation bar to access the cases.
Also the AccessMedicine core textbooks provide in-depth information on acid-base disturbances to help students and practicing providers take a deeper dive into the physiology of each type of disturbance. Here are a few examples of applicable chapters within a few AccessMedicine core textbooks: Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment 2018, Chapter 21: Electrolyte & Acid-Base Disorders Critical Care, Chapter 28: Acid-Base Disorders Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19e, Chapter 66: Acidosis and Alkalosis Principles and Practice of Hospital Medicine, 2e, Chapter 238: Acid-Base Disorders
As with all the other AM cases, users must be logged into their MyAccess personal account to answer the questions. Contact the library if you need help with your personal MyAccess logins for AccessMedicine.
The BMC Cases Database is a freely-accessible and up-to-date data base of over 11,000 medical case reports from publishers such as Springer, BMJ and PubMed Central. Bio-Med Central has aggregated these case reports together into one searchable database to facilitating comparison and provide clinicians, researchers, regulators and patients a simple resource to explore content, and identify emerging trends. An advanced search and alerts feature is also provided.
Brandon Smaglo, MD, and Sameh E. Mikhail, MD from the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University attempt to stump John L. Marshall, MD, director of the Ruesch Center for the Cure of Gastrointestinal Cancers, with this unique case study:
The New York Times Well Magazine has a great monthly series with Yale School of Medicine physician, Dr. Lisa Sanders [author of the book "Every Patient Tells a Story" ] where readers can join in and test out their medical diagnostic skills. The series is called "Think Like a Doctor" .
"Every month, the Diagnosiscolumn of The New York Times Magazine asks Wellreaders to sift through a difficult case and solve a diagnostic riddle."
Are you up for the challenge?
The latest 'medical mystery' to solve with Dr. Sanders is called "More than Meets the Eye", and the solution is already posted, but test your skills before you read the follow up article ~ "Eye Exam Solved" . At the bottom of the article are links to previous cases, so have fun!
And for more fun, don't forget our great new online library resource called fmCASES from MedU, were all you UMHS-SK medical students are invited to work through over 30 typical family medicine case and keep honing those diagnostic skills!
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