Ambulatory Component of the Internal Medicine Clerkship

Case Conferences

Prepare for each case conference in advance by reading the case(s) and any background reading that you feel is necessary to help you create a differential diagnosis and develop a treatment plan. For each case, the authors list “highly recommended” literature, copies of which may be given to you at the beginning of the clerkship. It is expected that you will read the highly recommended literature.

Each conference will be led by a faculty member who is familiar with the subject area, but not necessarily expert. The format is a group discussion.

Case #	Topic	Session Coordinator	PDF
1	Asthma	Geoffrey Chupp, Lauren Cohn
2	Infectious Diseases	Andre Sofair
3	Abdominal Pain	Anil Nagar
4	Diabetes	Walter Kernan, Silvio Inzucchi
5	Hypertension	John Setaro
6	Low Back Pain	Walter Kernan, Leo Cooney

Reading Material

Asthma Case Conference

• Expert Panel Report (EPR-3). [PDF]

Abdominal Pain Case Conference

• Glasgow RE, Muvihill SJ. Adominal Pain Including the Acute Abdomen. In Sleisenger and Fordtran's Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases. 7th Edition WB Saunders, 2002. Pages 71-81 [Web site]
• Mertz, HR. Irritable Bowel Syndrome, NEJM, 2003. Pages 2136-2146. [PDF]
• Meurer, LM, Bower, DJ. Management of Helicobacter Pylori Infection, Amercian Family of Physicians, April 2002. [PDF]
• Johnson, CD. Upper Abdominal Pain: Gall Bladder. BMJ, 2001. Pages 1170-1173. [PDF]

Infectious Diseases Case Conference

• ACP Annals of Internal Medicine, ITC6-1, 2008 [PDF]
• Knutson D, Braun C, Diagnosis and Mangement of Acute Bronchitis AFP, 2002; 65; 2039-1044 [PDF]

Low Back Pain Case Conference

• Deyo RA, Weinstein JN. Low Back Pain. NEJM 2001;344:363-370 [PDF]

Hypertension Case Conference

• Buse JB. Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in People with Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:162-172 [PDF]
• Chobanian AV, Bakris, GL, Black HR, Cushman WC, Green LA, Izzo JL, Jones DW, Baterson BJ, Oparil S, Wright JT, Roccella EJ, and the National High Blood Pressure Education Program Coordinating Committee. The Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure. The JNC 7 Report. JAMA 2003;289:2560-2572. [PDF]
• Moser M. Setaro. JF. Resistant of difficult-to-control hypertension. N England J Med 2006; 355:385-392 [PDF]

Diabetes Case Conference

• American Diabetes Association. Standards of Medical Care for Patients with Diabetes Mellitus. Diabetes Care 2007; 30:S4-S41 [PDF]
• Nathan DM, Buse JB, Davidson MB, Heine RJ, Holman RR, Sherwin R, Zinman B. Management of Hyperglycemia in Type 2 Diabetes: a consensus algorithm for the initiation and adjustment of therapy. [PDF]