BU General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds
A weekly conference aimed at the practicing general internist. A project of the Community Medicine Unit of the BU Section of General Internal Medicine.

Dr. David Seldin MD PhD discusses plasma cell disorders.

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Dr. Mitchell Medow shows how clinical reasoning can be tought using Bayes theorem. Includes an interesting explanation of  a 'qualitative' approach to Bayesian reasoning.

Direct download: Bayes_theorem.m4a
Category: Section of General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds -- posted at: 12:31 AM
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Marie-France Demierre, MD discusses some commonly seen skin conditions.

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Joseph D. Restuccia PhD discusses the measurement of quality in medical care.
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Adam Lerner MD discusses the abnormal white blood cell count.
Direct download: Abnormal_WBC.m4a
Category: Section of General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds -- posted at: 2:53 PM
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Beth Manning MD MPH discusses the management of common musculoskeletal conditions, with an emphasis on injections. (end of lecture is cut off).
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J. Pietr Noordzij MD from the Department of Otolaryngology discusses the evaluation of common voice disorders.
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Chief Resident Dr. Eddy Chen discusses his work improving the EBM curriculum.
Direct download: Chen_EBM.m4a
Category: Section of General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds -- posted at: 11:34 PM
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Dan Alford and Rich Saitz discuss the theory and practice of SBI.
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Adam Rose MD discusses the complex intersection of medication non-adherence and clinical inertia.
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Subha Ramani MD provides the answers to frequently asked physical diagnosis questions, with a focus on teaching the trainee. (apologize for occasional poor audio quality)
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Karen Freund MD and Women's Health Unit members Tracy Battaglia MD, Christine Phillips MD, Chava Chapman MD and Elizabeth Dupuis MD discuss their recent work using patient navigators to improve rates of screening for breast cancer, cervical cancer and other conditions.
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Dr. Sushil Basra discusses common causes of neck pain seen in primary care.
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David A. Halle provides a review of the perioperative medical evaluation with a discussion of recent evidence such as the POISE trial and recent guideline updates.
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Sanford Auerbach MD discusses the science of sleep.
Direct download: Sleep_Disorders.m4a
Category: Section of General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds -- posted at: 10:11 AM
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Alisa B. Rosen MD discusses choosing a stress test and interpreting the results.
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Frederick L. Brancati, MD, MHS, the annual Mark Moskowitz, MD Annual Memorial Visiting Professor, discusses current approaches towards and future research into the prevention of type 2 diabetes.

Direct download: Prevention_of_Diabetes.m4a
Category: Section of General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds -- posted at: 12:11 PM
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Michael M. Wolfe MD discusses current approaches to diagnosis and treatment.
Direct download: GERD.m4a
Category: Section of General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds -- posted at: 4:00 PM
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Peter Davidson MD, Sheila Bernard MD, and Alisa Rosen MD. "Just because it is inexact does not mean it has to be irrational." Who should be admitted? Who should have a stress test? And other vexing questions we face every day.
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David T. Felson MD MPH presents a practical guide, for the post-Cox-2 PCP, to the many NSAIDS currently available.
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John Noble, MD and Robert Sokolove, PhD use a story of a trip to ancient ruins to frame a discussion of the care of the returning soldier.
Direct download: From_Pergamon_to_Iraq.m4a
Category: Section of General Internal Medicine Grand Rounds -- posted at: 11:24 PM
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Jeffrey L. Greenwald MD discusses efforts to improve the hospital discharge process, and presents the preliminary findings of a randomized controlled trial just completed at Boston Medical Center.
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Cardiologists Naomi Hamburg, MD and Andrew Maree, MD, ChB, MS discuss non-surgical approaches to various vascular conditions.
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Michael Holick, MD PhD, Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Dermatology, discusses the management of patients with osteopenia and osteoporosis.
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Dania Jekel MSW, Executive Director of the Asperger's Association of New England helps us understand and relate to this difficult set of adult patients.
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Benjamin Wolozin MD PhD and Marie-Helene Saint-Hilaire MD together discuss recent advances in both the basic science and clinical management of Parkinson's Disease.
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Dr. Vasan S. Ramachandran of the Framingham Heart Study discusses the promise and the practical limitations of CRP and other newer biomarkers.

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