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I recently attended a large medical conference in New Orleans. While savoring a baked potato and cheesy grits at one of the CME dinner sessions, I started chatting with a medical student. She stated that she was excited about her first conference experience but nervous because of her uncertainty about...

Attending Your First Medical Conference: What You Need to Know

The New England Journal of Medicine invites applications from physicians at any career stage for a one-year, full-time, paid editorial fellowship beginning in July 2024. Several fellows will be selected for the 2024–25 year; applications are due by August 15, 2023. Learn more about the NEJM editorial fellowship and how...

The NEJM Editorial Fellowship

Most physicians remember the day they discovered where they would spend the next several years in residency training. Many also remember the moment elation gave way to reality as they began to calculate the cost of living and loans (averaging nearly $200,000) and realize it was more than their future...

Valuing the Resident Physician: Advocating for Change

In the first part of this series, Improving Feedback Exchanges with Residents: Can You Hear Me Now? , we reviewed basic knowledge and skills related to feedback exchanges in medical training. We defined the difference between feedback and assessment, highlighted the key components of high-quality feedback, identified barriers to feedback...

How to Receive and Deliver High-Quality Feedback

Feedback is defined as information describing an individual’s performance in a given activity that is intended to guide their future performance. Medical trainees are becoming increasingly aware that feedback is a critical component of clinical training. In a two-part series on improving formal feedback exchanges, we will focus on the...

Improving Feedback Exchanges with Residents: Can You Hear Me Now?

Whether you are a student, resident, or faculty member, no doubt you have attended obligatory talks on well-being and burnout. The attention to high rates of burnout in the U.S. health care workforce, and its unsurprising increase during the pandemic , has been beneficial, but concerns have been raised that...

It’s OK to Not Be OK

When you dedicate years to studying and practicing medicine, you learn that certain steps are required to maintain good health and prevent illness and disease. However, the concept of systematically and proactively cultivating good habits applies to many aspects of life, including your finances...

Five Steps to Improve Your Financial Health in Residency

Conflict is a natural part of everyday life; disagreements are bound to happen when we interact with others. As physicians, we often work in time-pressured, high-stakes circumstances and engage with teams comprised of people with different backgrounds and perspectives.

Conflict Management and Resolution as a Resident

Communication is key in all relationships. Effective and compassionate communication by physicians and other health care providers has been demonstrated to improve clinical outcomes, treatment adherence, patient satisfaction, and to reduce malpractice claims. For health care providers...

Delivering Difficult News: Stocking the Toolbox

Welcome new doctors! Yesterday you were medical students and today you are physicians! What a scary feeling. Remember that everyone shares similar concerns and fears as they start their residency and wants to succeed. Getting into residency is the beginning of an incredible journey. Savor it, relax, enjoy the ride,...

Surviving the First Month as a Doctor: Advice from the Community

Physician burnout and well-being are hot topics among medical professionals throughout the health care delivery and educational continuum — for good reason. Current estimates of the impact of physician burnout approach or exceed 50%, and most experts suggest that the percentage is growing.

Connection and Meaning: Resident Leadership to Combat Burnout

The fields of precision medicine and digital health have the potential to transform medicine by increasing access to health-related data at the touch of a finger, seamlessly sharing electronic medical records among institutions, improving the efficiency of healthcare delivery, and providing access to unprecedented granularity of patient data...

Precision Medicine: Help Pave the Way

The global effort to share data and resources about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has led to a flood of information as infections peak at different times around the world. 

Using Artificial Intelligence to Help Manage the Covid-19 Data Burden

Quality improvement (QI) is a disciplined effort to make healthcare delivery safer, more effective, patient-centered, timely, equitable, and efficient (less wasteful). These six domains were established by the National Academy of Medicine in 1999 as the tenets of... ...

What Is Quality Improvement?

Although every resident develops his or her own style for each of these roles, the following practical strategies were discussed in a NEJM Resident 360 discussion (How to Lead a Team on the Wards: The Art to Being an Effective Resident).

The Art of Leading with the Right Balance as a Senior Resident

The last time you stepped inside an operating room may have been the third year of medical school, but during residency you will care for many patients who require surgery, either electively or emergently. Calling a surgical consult can be daunting or intimidating, especially if the problem or situation is...

Advice for Calling a Surgical Consult

Notes are often the last thing standing between you and (finally) going home.  In one large-scale survey of internal medicine residents, two-thirds reported spending more than 4 hours per day on medical record documentation and clerical duties; only one-third...

Note to Self: Principles for Better Documentation

Internship and residency are incredibly demanding intellectually, emotionally, physically, and socially. This post addresses ways to establish habits that will lead to a successful and healthy transition to the practice of medicine during residency.    ...

Addressing Wellness in Residency: Ready, Set, Go!

Dr. Richard Brian Gunderman offers guidance for preventing burnout in residency.

Recognizing and Surviving Burnout

After many long nights huddled over textbooks, agonizing over the brachial plexus, committing childhood exanthems to memory, and making surgical knots of any loose fiber within arm’s reach, you have finally received the news of a lifetime: You’re accepted to a...

Prepping for PGY-1

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A randomized trial compared standard chemotherapy plus dostarlimab or placebo. Patients with mismatch repair–deficient tumors had 2-year progressionfree survival of 61.4% with dostarlimab and 15.7% with placebo.

Anti-PD1 Therapy plus Chemotherapy in Endometrial Cancer

A 58-year-old woman presented with fatigue, abdominal bloating, and eosinophilia. Eight months earlier, she had fractured her tibia while traveling in the Democratic Republic of Congo. A diagnostic test was performed. ...

A Woman with Fatigue and Eosinophilia

A 21-year-old woman (gravida 1, para 1) with sickle cell trait presented to the hospital 5 days after delivery with abdominal pain and shortness of breath. She had been well before pregnancy. ...

A Wrong Turn

In an open-label, multicenter, randomized trial, point-of-care ultrasonography was noninferior to radiography in children and adolescents with an isolated distal forearm injury, without a visible deformity.

Diagnostic Imaging for Pediatric Forearm Fractures

In three phase 3 placebo-controlled trials, the oral selective JAK inhibitor upadacitinib was effective as induction and maintenance therapy in patients with moderate-to-severe Crohn’s disease.

Upadacitinib Therapy for Crohn’s Disease

A 13-year-old boy presented with depression and suicidality. An episode of hypertension occurred, followed by hypotension in the context of a normal heart rate. A diagnosis was made.

A Boy with Depression and Hypotension

This review discusses the epidemiology, classification, and clinical presentation of tricuspid regurgitation, as well as medical, surgical, and percutaneous treatment options.

Tricuspid Regurgitation

In a randomized trial, patients with tricuspid regurgitation who were treated with transcatheter edge-to-edge repair had more favorable clinical outcomes at 1 year than did patients who received medical therapy. ...

Transcatheter Repair for Tricuspid Regurgitation

HPV is a common sexually transmitted virus; oncogenic types lead to HPVattributable cancers. Vaccines are highly effective for preventing HPV vaccine–type infection, precancers, and other attributable conditions.

Human Papillomavirus Vaccination

Choueiri et al. conducted a phase 3 trial that evaluated cabozantinib in addition to nivolumab and ipilimumab (experimental group) as compared with placebo in addition to nivolumab and ipilimumab (control group) in patients with previously untreated advanced...

Cabozantinib in Renal-Cell Carcinoma

Lee at al. conducted a randomized trial that investigated whether intravascular imaging–guided PCI with the use of intravascular ultrasonography or optical coherence tomography (OCT) would improve clinical outcomes as compared with angiography-guided PCI in patients with complex...

Neonatal Seizures

Intravascular Imaging- or Angiography-Guided PCI

In men with prostate cancer on PSA screening, radical treatments led to half the incidence of metastasis and local progression as active monitoring without affecting disease-specific or overall survival. ...

15-Year Outcomes for Prostate Cancer Therapies

A 25-year-old woman with a history of acute intermittent porphyria was admitted with abdominal pain and jerking movements of the arm and leg. Symptoms did not abate with hemin treatment. A diagnosis was made. ...

A Woman with Abdominal Pain and Jerking Movements

In this double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, sotatercept increased the exercise capacity of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Sotatercept for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Maternal vaccination was 82% effective in preventing medically attended RSV-associated lower respiratory tract illness in infants within 90 days after birth and 69% effective within 180 days.

Bivalent Prefusion F Vaccine in Pregnancy

In a placebo-controlled trial involving patients undergoing cesarean delivery, prophylactic use of tranexamic acid did not lead to a significantly lower risk of a composite outcome of maternal death or blood transfusion. ...

Tranexamic Acid to Prevent Hemorrhage after Cesarean

In this randomized trial, statin-intolerant patients with, or at high risk for, CVD received bempedoic acid or placebo. Bempedoic acid reduced LDL cholesterol and the risk of cardiovascular events. ...

Bempedoic Acid in Statin-Intolerant Patients

BCS is a lethal disease characterized by an obstruction of the hepatic venous outflow tract due to thrombosis or a primary disease of the venous wall. Recent advances have improved our understanding of BCS and its outcomes.

Primary Budd–Chiari Syndrome

In a trial involving patients with large acute strokes, endovascular thrombectomy resulted in better functional outcomes than medical care alone but was associated with vascular complications.

Thrombectomy for Large Ischemic Strokes

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From Pages to Practice

Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) involves the obliteration of the small arterioles of the pulmonary vasculature. PAH is categorized as World Health Organization (WHO) group 1 pulmonary hypertension, based on the presence of elevated pulmonary arterial pressures, normal pulmonary capillary wedge/left heart...

Lung Story Short: A New Therapy for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

The perennial question of whether to use glucocorticoids to treat patients with community acquired pneumonia (CAP) continues to consume hours of discussion in intensive care units (ICUs). Pneumonia elicits an inflammatory response in the lung, which left unchecked, can lead to a deleterious decline in pulmonary function and oxygenation. Glucocorticoids...

Should Glucocorticoids Be All the Rage in the Treatment of CAP?

Some anticoagulation decisions in patients with thrombosis are straightforward, thanks to a preponderance of data. First provoked deep-vein thrombosis (DVT)? There’s a guideline for that (no less than 3 months of anticoagulation). Recurrent DVT, pulmonary embolism, or decisions between a direct...

Hydrochlorothiazide or Chlorthalidone for Hypertension?

Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is the most common cause of preventable death in hospitalized medical patients, yet pharmacologic prophylaxis remains underutilized. The Virchow’s triad of venous stasis, vascular injury, and hypercoagulability is key in the assessment of VTE risk. Based on the Padua Score — a validated risk assessment model that...

Broken Bones and Thromboprophylaxis: Is Aspirin Enough?

Opioid use disorder (OUD) continues to be a national crisis in the United States. President Biden has identified battling the opioid crisis as a top priority and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded $1.6 billion to...

Methadone or Buprenorphine in Mothers and Neonates: A Tale of Two Drugs for OUD

Going with the Flow — Rivaroxaban Prophylaxis in Noncirrhotic Portal Venous Thrombosis

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death worldwide from a single infectious agent. TB is caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis , infecting about a quarter of the world’s population. Drug-resistant TB continues to be a threat to public health; in 2019, approximately 465,000 patients worldwide had rifampicin-resistant disease,...

Assessing What’s PRACTECAL in Rifampicin-Resistant Tuberculosis

Eosinophils are granulocytes theorized to have developed in humans to guard against parasitic infections, including nematodes that reside in human intestines. As a result, eosinophils appear to be normal constituents of gastrointestinal tissue, with an increasing gradient... ...

Dupilumab for Eosinophilic Esophagitis: Therapy for a Tough Diagnosis to Swallow?

Mr. Pool is a 64-year-old man with high blood pressure while taking lisinopril, diabetes (HbA1c level, 7.3), obesity (BMI, 32 kg/m<sup>2</sup> ), and dysplipidemia while taking statin therapy (elevated triglyceride of 270 mg/dL and low HDL of 33 mg/dL...

Fibrate Therapy Does Not Reduce Cardiovascular Events in Patients with Mild-to-Moderate Hypertriglyceridemia

The pancreas is a notoriously complex endocrine organ and when inflamed can cause a wide range of clinical symptoms, ranging from simple epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting, all the way to circulatory collapse and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). As...

Fluid Resuscitation in Pancreatitis

Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). More than 3 million people worldwide die of COPD each year, accounting for approximately 6% of all deaths. COPD is a heterogenous condition with various phenotypes including emphysema...

Inhalers for Smokers' Cough? Time for a RETHINC

When an area of the myocardium is not moving normally, it is important to realize that all may not be lost. Although ischemia can lead to infarction —or death of the cardiomyocytes— the cells may survive by “hibernating” or suspending the...

To PCI or Not to PCI — a Revascularization Question

The idiopathic inflammatory myopathies (IIM) are a group of diseases characterized by muscle inflammation with resultant weakness, the potential presence of other autoimmune signs (e.g., rash and calcinosis), specific autoantibodies that correspond to unique syndromes, and a variable clinical course ranging...

The ProDERM Trial: Muscling Ahead for Dermatomyositis

Lung cancers tend to be more highly mutated than other solid organ malignancies. Over the past decade, an increasing number of targeted therapies have been developed against specific mutations that drive tumor growth. Their use is largely responsible for the recent...

The KRYSTAL-1 Study: Expanding Options in KRAS-Mutated Lung Cancer

Esophageal cancer is the eighth most common cancer worldwide, with squamous cell carcinoma being the most common subtype. During the last 60 years, the 5-year survival rate for esophageal cancer has increased from 5% to 20% with the implementation of platinum-based therapy and radiotherapy; yet both esophageal adenocarcinoma...

Nivolumab Combination Therapy in Advanced Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma

The ubiquitous respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) has historically affected millions of children worldwide. The viral infection is associated with the clinical syndrome of bronchiolitis, consisting of rhinorrhea, a fluctuating physical examination, and varying levels of respiratory distress. The rhinorrhea (also known as coryza) is such a prominent...

The MELODY Trial: A New Tune in the Song and Dance of Bronchiolitis

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a common morbidity in preterm infants. At the core of the disease, an insult leads to disruption of normal lung development and ultimately presents as respiratory insufficiency. In the past few decades, the epidemiology of BPD has shifted as our understanding of the disease has evolved,...

Hydrocortisone to Prevent Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Coup de Grâce for Corticosteroids?

Mrs. Smith is a 61-year-old woman with a history of recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs). She reported the onset of dysuria and hematuria a few days ago and thought the symptoms felt similar to prior UTI episodes. She promptly made an appointment to see her primary care doctor the next...

Oral Tebipenem for Complicated Urinary Tract Infection

Ms. Cooper is a 32-year-old primigravida at 19 weeks and 2 days’ gestation, based on last menstrual period (LMP) and confirmed on 8-week ultrasound. She presented to the resident continuity clinic for routine prenatal care. You discuss how she is feeling and her upcoming anatomy sonogram and glucose tolerance test....

Treatment for Pregnant Women with Mild Chronic Hypertension

Mr. Strickland is a 77-year-old man who presents to the emergency department with fever and dysuria. He is febrile to 38.5°C, has a heart rate of 130 beats per minute and blood pressure of 80/50 mmHg. His white blood cell count is elevated at 16,000/mm<sup>3</sup> and urinalysis demonstrates >50...

Fluids in the ICU: Are Balanced Electrolyte Solutions Better than Normal Saline?

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In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the 2022 scientific statement from the American Heart Association on the management of acute coronary syndrome in the older adult population. We are joined by Dr. Abdulla Damluji, the lead author on the...

Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome in Older Adults with Dr. Abdulla Damluji

In this episode of Curbside Consults, Jaclyn Albin, MD and Milette Siler, RD share their passion for food as medicine and talk about their experiences at The Culinary Medicine Program at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Jaclyn believes food as medicine delivers...

Culinary Medicine with Dr. Jaclyn Albin and Milette Siler, RD

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the Endocrine Society’s 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline on management of hyperglycemia in hospitalized adults in non-critical care settings. We are joined by Dr. Mary Korytkowski, Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of...

Management of Hyperglycemia in Hospitalized Adults with Dr. Mary Korytkowski

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the American College of Chest Physicians recent clinical practice guideline on Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Therapy. We are joined by Dr. James Douketis, Chair in Thromboembolic Disease at McMaster University and the first...

American College of Chest Physicians Clinical Practice Guideline on Perioperative Management of Antithrombotic Therapy with Dr. James Douketis

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the 2022 revision of the clinical practice guideline on the management of hyperbilirubinemia in the newborn infant by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). We are joined by two authors of the revised...

Management of Hyperbilirubinemia in the Newborn Infant with Drs. Alex Kemper and Tom Newman

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we discuss aerospace medicine with two physicians who are double boarded in internal and aerospace medicine and are also NASA astronauts. Dr. Auñón-Chancellor recently served as Flight Engineer on the International Space Station for Expeditions...

Space Medicine with Drs. Serena Auñón-Chancellor and Michael Barratt

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine an update on management of opiate use disorder in hospitalized adults by the SHM (Society of Hospital Medicine). We are joined by Dr. Susan Calcaterra, Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the Addiction...

Management of Opiate Use Disorder in Hospitalized Adults with Dr. Susan Calcaterra

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) on Sarcoidosis. We are joined by one of its co-authors, Dr. Kevin Wilson, Chief of Guidelines and Documents at the American Thoracic Society and Professor...

American Thoracic Society Clinical Practice Guideline on Sarcoidosis with Dr. Kevin Wilson

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine an update on sleep-related infant deaths by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). We are joined by Rachel Moon, Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of Pediatrics of at the University of Virginia and Chair...

Sleep-Related Infant Deaths with Dr. Rachel Moon

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we are joined by Dr. Cheri Blauwet, Chief Medical Officer at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, and retired Paralympian in the sport of competitive wheelchair...

Understanding Disability with Dr. Cheri Blauwet

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the latest guidelines on the diagnosis and management of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) by the American Thoracic Society (ATS). We are joined by Mary Strek, Professor of Medicine...

Update on Idiopathic and Progressive Pulmonary Fibrosis with Dr. Mary Strek

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the latest standards of medical care published by the American Diabetes Association (ADA). We are joined by Dr. Bob Gabbay, who is Chief Science and Medical Officer at the American Diabetes Association, an...

ADA Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes with Dr. Bob Gabbay

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the latest recommendation statement on the use of aspirin to prevent cardiovascular disease from the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF). We are joined by Michael Barry, who is Director of the Informed Medical Decisions Program in the Health Decision Sciences...

USPSTF Recommendation Statement on Aspirin Use with Dr. Michael Barry

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we are joined by Dr. Clyde Yancy, Chief of Cardiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, past chair of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Heart Failure Guidelines Committee, and a senior member of the committee that authored the new 2022 Guideline for...

Guideline for the Management of Heart Failure with Dr. Clyde Yancy

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the latest guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on the treatment of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We are joined by Dr. Kimberly Workowski, a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory, and one of the guideline...

CDC Sexually Transmitted Infections Treatment Guidelines with Dr. Kimberly Workowski

As Editor-In-Chief of the <em>New England Journal of Medicine</em> , Dr. Eric Rubin is an authority on medical publishing, but he didn’t always know this was the job he wanted. In this special episode of Curbside Consults, we explore the highlights and challenges of being a physician editor at a...

Pursuing a Career in Medical Publishing: A Conversation with Dr. Eric Rubin

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the latest guidelines on the diagnosis and management of Barrett’s esophagus by the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG). We are joined by Dr. Nick Shaheen, a Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UNC Chapel Hill, and one of...

Diagnosis and Management of Barrett’s Esophagus with Dr. Nicholas Shaheen

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the latest guidelines on the diagnosis and management of pediatric osteomyelitis by the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society (PIDS). We are joined by Dr. Samir Shah, a Professor of Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Editor-in-Chief of...

Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Osteomyelitis with Dr. Samir Shah

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the latest guidelines on the management of <em>Clostridiodes difficile</em> (<em>C. difficile</em> ) infection. This year, updated guidelines were developed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, as well as the American College...

Diagnosis and Treatment of C. difficile Infection with Dr. Jessica Allegretti

In this episode of Curbside Consults, we examine the latest guidelines on the evaluation and management of well-appearing febrile infants 8-60 days old by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). We are joined by Dr. Benard Dreyer, a Professor of Pediatrics at NYU, the past president of the AAP, who...

Evaluation and Management of Febrile Neonates with Dr. Benard Dreyer

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Karna Sundsted, MD, is Assistant Professor of Medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, and a Consultant in the Division of General Internal Medicine at Mayo Clinic. 

Ambulatory medicine involves a wide range of conditions. In this rotation guide, we cover some key topics that are encountered in patients in a continuity clinic and other outpatient settings.