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CME Course Updates Physicians on Parkinson’s Disease Care
The American Journal of Medicine has a new continuing medical education (CME) course on Parkinson’s disease on our website: An Update on Parkinson’s Disease: Improving Patient Outcomes Neurologists are...
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Diagnostic Utility of Food Terminology
Physicians use food to describe the body: Analogies add flavor, provide a lingua franca for description, and offer a mnemonic. Presenting medicine in food descriptors makes a boundless field easier to...
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Organic Chem or Nutrition as a Pre-Med Requirement?
James E. Dalen, MD, AJM Associate Editor Success in an undergraduate course in organic chemistry is one of the master keys needed to unlock the door to medical school. Organic chemistry became a...
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The Five-Minute Moment
In today’s hospital and clinic environment, the obstacles to bedside teaching for both faculty and trainees are considerable. As electronic health record systems become increasingly prevalent,...
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Training Geriatric Cardiologists for an Aging Population: Time to Get Going
Our society is aging—20% of the US population will be aged more than 65 years by 2030, and the number of the “oldest old,” those aged more than 85 years, will triple by 2050. Cardiovascular disease...
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Ten Immunization-Related Tips in Outpatient Practice
Keeping up with immunization recommendations and implementing them can be an ongoing challenge for clinicians. Ten tips related to various immunizations given in the outpatient setting are presented,...
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The Case for Medical History in Physicians’ Education
Although medical historians have long promoted medical history as an important component of physicians’ knowledge, reasoning, and clinical practice,1 they have made no effort to determine what...
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Denying International Medical Graduates Entry to the United States: A Loss at...
A resident colleague of ours at the Cleveland Clinic was recently deported soon after entering the United States. This was in conjunction with the executive orders at that time that barred individuals...
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The Deficit of Nutrition Education of Physicians
Global mortality rates in males due to cardiovascular disease; originally published jointly by the World Health Organization in collaboration with the World Heart Federation and World Stroke...
View ArticleOrganic Chem or Nutrition as a Pre-Med Requirement?
Success in an undergraduate course in organic chemistry is one of the master keys needed to unlock the door to medical school. Organic chemistry became a requirement for admission to allopathic medical...
View ArticleThe Five-Minute Moment
In today’s hospital and clinic environment, the obstacles to bedside teaching for both faculty and trainees are considerable. As electronic health record systems become increasingly prevalent, trainees...
View ArticleTraining Geriatric Cardiologists for an Aging Population: Time to Get Going
Our society is aging—20% of the US population will be aged more than 65 years by 2030, and the number of the “oldest old,” those aged more than 85 years, will triple by 2050. Cardiovascular disease...
View ArticleTen Immunization-Related Tips in Outpatient Practice
Keeping up with immunization recommendations and implementing them can be an ongoing challenge for clinicians. Ten tips related to various immunizations given in the outpatient setting are presented,...
View ArticleThe Case for Medical History in Physicians’ Education
Although medical historians have long promoted medical history as an important component of physicians’ knowledge, reasoning, and clinical practice,1 they have made no effort to determine what...
View ArticleDenying International Medical Graduates Entry to the United States: A Loss at...
A resident colleague of ours at the Cleveland Clinic was recently deported soon after entering the United States. This was in conjunction with the executive orders at that time that barred individuals...
View ArticleThe Deficit of Nutrition Education of Physicians
Globally, death rates from cardiovascular disease are increasing, rising 41% between 1990 and 2013, and are often attributed, at least in part, to poor diet quality. With urbanization, economic...
View ArticleThe United State of Medicine: Healing Identity Confusion
Having uniquely evolved the ability to communicate via speech, humans developed communally shared sounds, which collectively comprise language to represent objects as well as abstract ideas. Although...
View ArticleCardiologists Receive Little Nutrition Education in Med School (video)
Writing in the American Journal of Medicine, Devries et al reported that “a large proportion of cardiovascular specialists have received minimal medical education and training in nutrition, and current...
View ArticleParental Leave in Graduate Medical Education: Recommendations for Reform
Becoming a new parent during residency or fellowship training is challenging and may adversely affect attainment of professional goals or even guide career specialty choice based on perceived work–life...
View ArticleWanted: Local Medical Experts/Champions to Prevent Gun Violence
In response to the current, horrific US public health crisis—an epidemic of gun violence due primarily to handguns—physician leaders are calling upon health care professionals to become involved in...
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