[...]... on rounds!) To solve this dilemma, students often buy two textbooks, one comprehensive, one more general; however, as the clerkship winds to an end, and final examinations loom, reading often defaults to the shorter textbook, resulting in less in-depth understanding of internal medicine This book, and its companion book First Exposure to Internal Medicine: Ambulatory Medicine, is an attempt to remedy... Chapter 11 xvi CONTRIBUTORS Sibu P Saha, MD, MBA Professor of Surgery University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Chapter 58 Deanna Todd Tzanetos, MD Chief Resident, Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Chapter 3 Lisbeth Selby, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Chapter 23 Douglas Bazil Tzanetos, MD Chief Resident, Internal Medicine University... for Education Internal Medicine Inpatient Clerkship Director Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine at The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Chapters 33, 34, 37 Sharon F Green, MD, MA Fellow in Academic Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Chapter 51 Charles H Griffith III, MD, MSPH Inpatient Internal Medicine Clerkship Director Division of General Internal Medicine University... an internal medicine residency is: in contrast to some residencies where much of one’s learning involves mastering various procedures or operations, an internal medicine residency is 3 more years trying to learn more internal medicine) However, if this textbook attempted to discuss all those myriad topics, the text would either become too unwieldy and unreadable in a short clerkship, or present topics... Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Chapter 9 Heather E Harrell, MD Medicine Clerkship Director Director of the Fourth Year Program University of Florida College of Medicine Gainesville, Florida Chapter 1 xiii Dan Henry, MD Professor of Clinical Medicine Course Director, Multidisciplinary Ambulatory Experiences and Advanced Clinical Experiences University of Connecticut School of Medicine Farmington, Connecticut... Lexington, Kentucky Chapter 30 CONTRIBUTORS Kristy S Deep, MD Fellow in Academic Internal Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Chapter 29 Steven Durning, MD, FACP Associate Professor of Medicine Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Bethesda, Maryland Chapter 40 Christopher A Feddock, MD, MS, FAAP Med-Peds Residency Program Director Division of General Internal Medicine. .. probably seen some doctors not follow these CHAPTER 1 / INTRODUCTION TO INPATIENT INTERNAL MEDICINE 5 principles (although one can often learn as much from a negative role model—hopefully vowing to yourself to never behave similarly) But, the fact that you are reading this textbook (particularly this introductory chapter) implies that you want to excel, not merely pass the internal medicine clerkship... ambulatory topics during their ambulatory block, inpatient topics during their inpatient block This textbook, the hospital medicine text, focuses on topics generally encountered on inpatient rotations Some topics span both textbooks For example, diabetes is encountered in both settings quite frequently However, the focus of diabetes care is often different in the different settings Therefore, the ambulatory... Associate Professor of Medicine Internal Medicine Assistant Inpatient Clerkship Director Roy J and Lucille A Carver College of Medicine at The University of Iowa Iowa City, Iowa Chapters 33, 34, 37 Eric Bensadoun, MD Associate Professor of Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Chapter 21 Alison L Bailey, MD Fellow in Cardiovascular Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Chapter... Bethesda, Maryland Chapter 19 Christopher S Newell, MD Assistant Professor of Medicine University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky Chapter 39 Thomas D Painter, MD Professor of Internal Medicine University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Chapter 15 John Poremba, MD Staff Endocrinologist Director, Introduction to Clinical Medicine & Uniformed Services Assistant Professor of Medicine University of the Health . h1" alt="" FIRST EXPOSURE TO INTERNAL MEDICINE: HOSPITAL MEDICINE To my students, from whom I learn every day; to my colleagues in internal medicine at. III, MD, MSPH FIRST EXPOSURE TO INTERNAL MEDICINE: HOSPITAL MEDICINE Charles H. Griffith III, MD, MSPH Inpatient Internal Medicine Clerkship Director Division