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Dr. Melody Hou, UCD SOM OB/GYN Co-Clerkship Director and teaching star discusses a case of a patient presenting with acute pelvic pain--the approach to history, exam, labs and imaging.

This case based conversation is about the UCD43 #16--Ear Pain. Please see www.UCD43.com and go to the page "What is the UCD43" for the complete list of UCD43 chief complaints as well as podcasts that address many of them. More to come so stay tuned!

Dr. Stephanie Rasmussen takes you and 2 excellent discussants on an exploration of a case of altered mental status. The UCD43 is a curricular list of 43 common chief complaints that all UCD medical students should be comfortable with by the time they graduate from medical school. We hope other medical schools and residency training programs will also find this list helpful. (For more on the UCD43, please go to www.UCD43.com)

3 stories as told by F2 herself.

An interview with 3 APDIM/AAIM members who have raised the bar on self care and well being in an age of significant healthcare provider burnout.

Another remarkable story of surviving crisis.

Further discussion of grief, the challenge of surviving the loss of a child and the importance of community in that survival.

Dr. Helen Chew talks about John, his loss and the ways in which she was able to survive devastating grief and to find some degree of solace.

An interview with Kaiser Santa Rosa Emergency Medicine physician, Dr. Cheryl McBride, about evacuating her family during the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County, the loss of her family's home and all possessions and the long recovery from the aftermath of the fire in her town and Sonoma County.

Episode explores the death of a close family member from suicide and some of its aftermath.

A conversation about racism in the second grade that transitioned to a frank discussion about racism in college and persevering to realize a dream that Dr. Harris had had since she was 5 years old.

Episode 2--Surviving Crisis--Deployment by Mountainlion

It's been a hard year for everyone in so many ways. What have colleagues who have survived crises learned from their experiences? What do they have to teach us about survival and about life? Listen to this new Mountainlion series, hear their stories and find out.

A conversation with Dr. James Nixon of University of Minnesota about the origin of the term, "mistreatment" as well as about the sources and types of this mistreatment in the medical training environment.

Brief background to why we use questions while teaching learners, the background to the word pimping and why we should stop calling it that...plus 10 tips for artful questioning in the med ed setting.

A wonderful essay from the Annals "On Being a Doctor" Essay collection straight from the heart of a great educator in Internal Medicine. It juxtaposes learning a musical instrument with learning, for the first time, to present a patient at the bedside.

A very timely discussion of how one residency program trains its residents to deal with discrimination from patients.

An interview with one of the presenters--Marina Mutter, MD--from a workshop presented at Denver APDIM in fall 2019 about tapping into Doug Lemov K-12 teaching techniques that, when applied to Medical Education, can be a hit.

A reading of Hip Cat, some Stan Getz and Immunosuppressives Pharmacology Case vignette review--all to keep your brain blooming and fresh in these uncertain times.

5 short scenarios from the Lange Micro/ID Flash Cards for your listening and neuron stimulating wonder and a little bit of some Woody Guthrie classics to keep your right brain happy.

Pharmacology flash cards from the 4th Edition Lange Flash card series plus a tribute to Sam Clayton, Jr., sound engineer for Toots & The Maytals as well producer and sound engineer for other Reggae greats--who died of the novel coronavirus.

5! The number 5 clinical vignettes for you to review for Step Prep and for the practice of medicine. As well a brief tribute to Bucky Pizzarelli, great jazz guitarist who died from the novel coronavirus a few weeks ago at 84 years of age.

A tribute to Lee Konitz, another victim of the novel coronavirus, followed by some Gr + Rod vignettes followed by a tribute to Disney movie animator, Ann Sullivan.

Another challenging case to keep you thinking

Morning Report style case brought to you by....well, you'll have to listen to find out where this case came from because it's a secret revealed at the end. And 2 songs in memory of Wallace Roney, Jazz great, who recently died at age 59 from complications of novel coronavirus infection. We will miss him.

Take a break from IM Essentials questions and try and figure out the diagnosis in a sick hemodialysis patient being admitted overnight to the hospital.

Reflections on working in the hospital during the first "skirmishes" with Covid-19, remembering Ellis Marsalis and a few last 5 questions for I.D. from IM Essentials.

Another bolus of spellbinding Infectious disease questions to keep you on the edge of your seat....and poem to lead off the set, of course.

An R3 reflects on her love of being at the bedside with her teams and what is gained by being there and what is lost by not being at the bedside.

An inspirational speech and 5 more mundane but important questions in Infectious Diseases from IM Essentials produced by ACP and CDIM.

Items 27 through 31 in the I.D. section of IM Essentials. And a poem at the end to reward you for sticking it out and listening to this podcast!

Brief interviews with 2 medical students pulled from their third year Internal Medicine rotation due to concerns about Covid-19. AND a short poem to calm your frazzled nerves.

Dr. Jenny Wright from University of Washington discusses how to successfully carry out exam room presentations with medical students.

James Wright leads this one off with a reading of "A Blessing".

Random ID questions to sharpen your neurons into well honed spears of knowledge

Hear what a 3rd student thinks about being pulled from her IM Clerkship due to the novel coronavirus pandemic and then settle in for some exciting IM Essentials questions to train your brain and expand your fund of knowledge.

Dr. Jed Gonzalo talks to us about the art of bedside rounds based on his publication and experience in this area.

Items 1-5 from the I.D. section of IM Essentials: A Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program for Students

A brief story about what's lost when there isn't shared decision making with patients....and why this IM Program Director insists on bedside rounds rather than hallway or conference room rounds.

A truly fun discussion with someone who is passionate about what he does and how he does it--Dr. Brad Monash. As well as an interesting look at how bedside presentations can improve the patient experience.

Number 4 in the Bedside Presentations & Rounds Series on Mountainlion. ROAR!!!

A discussion with Dr. Peter Lichstein about how he and colleagues at Wake Forest School of Medicine changed the bedside rounding culture in the Department of Medicine with the help of some grant money and a lot of enthusiasm.

The second podcast in a series of podcasts on Bedside Presentations and Rounds. This one focuses on why to change the culture of attending rounds and the how to change the culture to be bedside and patient centered.

The first of 8 podcasts in a mountainlion series on bedside presentations and rounding. The "how to" set your team up for success at the bedside and other great pearls from a master of bedside teaching.

RIME--A Chat with Lou Pangaro by Mountainlion

In Pursuit of Honors--Justin Bullock Interview by Mountainlion

Ultra Brief Teaching--Alan Hall Interview by Mountainlion

A doctor who turned failure(s) into success and used that success to help others who came after her to succeed, as well.

Self-Regulated Learning Theory to Dx/Rx Struggling Learners by Mountainlion

Maximizing Med Student Documentation-Interview with Amy Shaheen by Mountainlion

STEP Prep--Interview with the 2 Megans by Mountainlion