Common Internal Medicine pimping questions

[SkylineMD]

I had started a thread regarding pimping questions in peds and instead of mixing the two questions, I suppose we could start a new thread for common internal medicine pimping questions. Maybe everyone can contribute a little to these: Here are some that come to mind

- Treatments/Steps in management for hyperkalemia/hypokalemia
- Uses of N-acetyl cysteine
- ECG changes in a PE, symptoms of PE, causes of PE
- Diagnosing diabetes (various methods and cutoffs)
- when to begin screening for cancer (with variations depending on family history, type of cancer, race etc)
- Drugs for treatment of CHF

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[BillyWitchDoctr]

- Treatments/Steps in management for hyperkalemia/hypokalemia

Definitely high-yield, as are all electrolyte abnormalities.

I was asked to interpret CXRs a couple of times - if you can do it well it makes you look like a star. I highly recommend "Felson's Principles of Chest Roentgenology"

 

[riverie]

causes of pancreatitis, Ranson's criteria, tx of pancreatitis

 

[Ypo.]

EKGs. I got put on the spot.


Also, side effects of steroids. (cause everything and anything-they are the lupus of pharmacology)

 

[Hood]

Definitely high-yield, as are all electrolyte abnormalities.

I was asked to interpret CXRs a couple of times - if you can do it well it makes you look like a star. I highly recommend "Felson's Principles of Chest Roentgenology"

unless you're going into rads, dont buy a book for CXRs. that's just silly. look up a quick guide online.

http://student.bmj.com/issues/00/09/education/316.php
first google answer. seems sufficient to me.

 

[zeloc]

I wouldn't bother reading a book on CXRs during your rotation, but definitely its worthwhile to make sure you go through one book before residency if you are going into Internal Medicine because you are going to have times when you are called in the middle of the night to evaluate a patient and you might not have help interpreting the CXR.

There are really so many possible questions to get asked on, I would just read up on whatever patients you have because likely you will get questions on those diseases and related ones. Anemias are high yield, too.