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[SomethingFishy]

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Quick question, when a patient is started on an oral med such as Metformin for elevated glucose, are they supposed to be monitoring their sugars at home with a glucometer. Or do you just monitor HgA1c every 3 months?

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

Quick question, when a patient is started on an oral med such as Metformin for elevated glucose, are they supposed to be monitoring their sugars at home with a glucometer. Or do you just monitor HgA1c every 3 months?

Both.

Why would a resident post in the students forum and why would he/she not know the answer to this.

 

[rock_climber]

Both.

Why would a resident post in the students forum and why would he/she not know the answer to this.

Because they also asked it on a resident forum and got no answer. Desperate times call for desperate measures when your patient is sitting in the exam room and you're on SDN hitting refresh and hoping for an answer.

 

[VA Hopeful Dr]

Because they also asked it on a resident forum and got no answer. Desperate times call for desperate measures when your patient is sitting in the exam room and you're on SDN hitting refresh and hoping for an answer.

Up-to-Date (really any online/print medical reference), general med school knowledge and fellow residents should all yield the required information fairly quickly.

I guess my confusion lies in the resident part. If you're in a specialty that manages diabetes as an outpatient, by this time of year I'd expect an intern to know this. Now, if this is a medicine resident that started their first outpatient rotation yesterday, then that might be a different story.

In looking over previous posts by said poster, I'm having some doubts. It looks like this person doesn't know how to look things up and either has very little back-up or has malignant back-up that he/she doesn't feel comfortable asking questions to.

 

[211519]

Up-to-Date (really any online/print medical reference), general med school knowledge and fellow residents should all yield the required information fairly quickly.

I guess my confusion lies in the resident part. If you're in a specialty that manages diabetes as an outpatient, by this time of year I'd expect an intern to know this. Now, if this is a medicine resident that started their first outpatient rotation yesterday, then that might be a different story.

In looking over previous posts by said poster, I'm having some doubts. It looks like this person doesn't know how to look things up and either has very little back-up or has malignant back-up that he/she doesn't feel comfortable asking questions to.

I was really confused by the OP's post too (and I'm a 1st year).