Sample Lecture Series
Cardiology
- Unstable Angina/NSTEMI (3rd yr)
- Valvular disease (AS/MS)- Part 1
- Valvular disease (AR/MR/TR)- Part 2
- Congestive Heart failure (Systolic/Diastolic)
- Stable Coronary Heart Disease (Diagnostic tools/stress test/ECHO/Cath)
- Pharmacology/Critical Care (Antiarrhythmics/pressors/anti-platelets/IABP)
- Arrhythmias (2nd year)
- Pericardial Disease (Pericarditis/Tamponade/Pericardial Effusion/Constrictive)
- Cardiomyopathies (Hypertrophic/Restrictive)
- Aortic disease (Aneurysm/Dissection)
- Simple Congenital Heart Disease (ASD/VSD/PFO)
- STEMI
Gastroenterology
- When and How to Call a GI Consult
- Elevated Liver Enzymes
- Upper and Lower GI Bleed – The Approach
- Acute Hepatitis
- Chronic Hepatitis
- Acute and Chronic Pancreatitis
- Cirrhosis and its complications
- Alcoholic Liver Disease
- Gall Bladder and Biliary Disease
- Esophageal Diseases (GERD, Barret’s, Motility Disorders etc)
- Chronic Diarrhea
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Ulcerative and Crohn’s)
- Colorectal Cancer and its surveillance
- Peptic Ulcer Disease and Gastric Pathologies
- Drugs in gastroenterology – their use and misuse
Pulmonary/Critical Care
- Approach to Respiratory Failure
- Shock
- Obstructive Lung Disease
- Fluid and Electrolytes
- Asthma
- Pleural Disease
- Pulmonary Vascular Disease – Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Hypertension
- Diagnostic Tools in Pulmonology – PFT, Flow Volume Loops, PEFR
- Pulmonary Neoplasm – Solitary nodule, benign and malignant neoplasms
- Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease
- Miscellaneous 1 (Sleep Disorders, Polysomnography)
- Miscellaneous 2 (High Altitude Pulmonary Disease, Occupational Lung Disease)
- Miscellaneous 3 (Pre Op pulmonary Clearance, Lung Surgeries
Hematology and Oncology
- Anemia – approach and workup
- Principles of Transfusion – Blood products, indications and complications
- Approach to Thrombocytopenia and its work up.
- Bleeding and Coagulation Disorders – Approach and interpretation of lab results.
- Thrombophilic Disorders (Venous Thromboembolisms and Thrombophilia testing).
- Leukemias and Lymphomas.
- Solid Tumor Series 1 (Breast CA and Prostrate CA)
- Solid Tumor Series 2 (Esophageal, Gastric, Colorectal, Anal)
- Solid Tumor Series 3 (Lung Cancer)
- Plasma Cell Dyscrasias (Multiple Myeloma and other gammopathies).
- Myeloproliferative Disorders ( Polycythemia Vera, Essential Thrombocytosis, Myelofibrosis)
- Oncologic Emergencies (SVC Syndrome, Hyperviscosity, Cord Compression, Tumor Lysis Syndrome
Infectious Disease
- Anti Microbials – classes, coverages, resistance and side effects
- Interpretation of Laboratory Results
- Approach to Fever (Pattern, FUO, Neutropenic Fever, non-infectious)
- Skin and Soft Tissue Infections (Cellulitis, Abscesses, Necrotising Fascitis, Diabetic Foot)
- Pneumonia (Community Acquires, Hospital Acquires, Nosocomial, Ventilator associated)
- Genitourinary infections (Urethritis, Cystitis, prostatitis, pyelonephritis, asymptomatic bacteruria, CAUTI)
- Osteomyelitis
- Nosocomial infections – CLABSI, VAP, Surgical Site Infections
- Infective Endocarditis
- CNS Infections (Encephalitis, Meningitis, spinal and brain abscesses)
- HIV Series 1 – Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, Stages and Opportunistic Infections
- HIV Series 2 – Long Term Consequences of those who don’t progress to AIDS
- HIV Series 3 -Anti Retrovirals: classes and Side Effects
- HIV Series 4- CCLS
- Tuberculosis and other Mycobacterial Diseases
- Fungal infections – superficial, deep and systemic
- Travel medicine and Parasitology
Endocrinology
- Diabetes Mellitus – Part 1 (Classification, Diagnosis, Complications)
- Diabetes Mellitus- Part 2 (Treatment)
- Thyroid Disorders- Part 1(Thyroid physiology/function)
- Thyroid Disorders- Part 2 (Thyroid gland disorders)
- Adrenal Disorders (Cushing’s, Addison’s, Conn’s)
- Vitamin D and Calcium Metabolism
- Bone disorders (Osteoporosis, Osteopenia, Osteomalacia)
- Pituitary Disorders – approach and workup
- Endocrine Emergencies (DKA, HHS, Myxedema Coma, Thyroid Storm, Adrenal Crisis, Hypercalcemia)
- Reproductive Endocrinology- Part 1 (Male Disorders)
- Reproductive Endocrinology- Part 2 (Female Disorders)
- Endocrine Syndromes (MEN, PGLA etc)
Nephrology
- Chronic Kidney Disease and ESRD – long term management and complications
- Hypertension – the nephrologist’s approach
- Hypokalemia and Hyperkalemia – approach and management
- Hyponatremia and Hypernatremia – approach and management
- Acid Base Disorders
- Nephrolithiasis
- Glomerular Disease – Part 1- Glomerulonephritis
- Glomerular Disease – Part 1- Nephrotic Syndromes/Proteinuria
- Acute Kidney Injury -approach, workup and management
- Tubulointerstitial Disease
- Genetic Diseases- Cystic vs Noncystic Disorders
Neurology
- A comprehensive Neurologic Exam
- Acute Stroke – Ischemic- Approach and management
- Acute Stroke – Hemorrhagic- Approach and management
- Epilepsy – Approach and anticonvulsants
- Headache and Facial Pain
- Movement Disorders – Parkinsonism and others
- Dementia – primary and secondary
- Neuromuscular Disorders – Myasthenia, Motor Neuron Disease, Bell Palsy, ALS
- Demyelinating Disorders – Part 1- Multiple Sclerosis
- Demyelinating Disorders – Part 2- Transverse Myelitis, Guillain Barre
- Disorders of the Spinal Cord – Brown Sequard, etc
- Misc- Brain Death, Head Injury
Rheumatology
- Approach to the patient with rheumatic disease.
- Principles of rheumatic disease therapeutics (anti-inflammatory, Bridging therapy and DMARD’s).
- Rheumatoid arthritis (pathophysiology, risk factors, diagnosis, complications, extra-articular manifestations and treatment).
- Osteoarthritis (pathophysiology, risk factors, classification, diagnosis and treatment).
- Fibromyalgia (epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment).
- Spondyloarthropathy (Ankylosing spondylitis, reactive, arthritis, psoriatic arthritis and enteropathic arthritis).
- Systemic lupus erythematosus (pathophysiology, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis).
- Sjogren Syndrome (epidemiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prognosis).
- Idiopathic inflammatory myopathy.
- Systemic vasculitis (large, medium and small vessel vasculitis).
- Crystal-induced Arthropathies (Gout, Calcium pyrophosphate and basic calcium phosphate deposition disease)
- Infectious arthritis.
- Mixed connective tissue disease.
- Other systemic inflammatory diseases (Behcet, relapsing polychondritis, Adult onset Still disease, sarcoidosis and diseases of collagen)
General Internal Medicine/Dermatology
- Routine care and screening of healthy patient.
- Professionalism and ethics.
- Common symptoms (chronic pain, cough, chronic fatigue, dizziness, insomnia, syncope, chest pain and edema).
- Musculoskeletal pain (back, neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee, ankle and foot pain).
- Dyslipidemia.
- Obesity.
- Eye disorders (red eye, macular degeneration, glaucoma, Cataract, dry eye, retinal vascular occlusion and eye emergencies).
- ENT disorders (hearing loss, tinnitus, Upper respiratory tract infection and epistaxis).
- Psychiatric and behavioral disorders.
- Geriatric Medicine.
- Perioperative evaluation.
- Common rashes (Eczematous dermatosis, Papulosquamous dermatosis, and drug reactions).
- Common neoplasm of the skin, urticaria and pruritus.
- Autoimmune Bullous disease and cutaneous manifestations of internal disease.
- Hair, nail disorders, leg and foot ulcers.