School of Medicine - Foundations

Textbook

Reading about a patient that was just seen is the foundation of physicians' life-long learning. For early students, reading can help organize the information you've learned about different diseases into a clinical approach to a patient problem. For hospital tutorial patients, you will often read about the approach to an acute symptom that led to hospitalization. In Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, "Part 2: Cardinal Manifestations and Presentations of Disease" includes chapters on how to approach many chief concerns. Similar chapters can be found in Goldman-Cecil Medicine and Up-to-Date by searching for "Approach to (chief concern)."

In PCP, you are more likely to see patients with known, chronic conditions. Recalling what you learned in a block and building upon it will prepare you well for outpatient clerkships.

Resources for Learning from Hospital Tutorial Patients

Resources for Primary Care Practicum (patients)

Search Starter: Look up diagnosis terms in journal search bars

• AFP (American Family Physician)
• Annals of Internal Medicine
• NEJM (New England Journal of Medicine)
• Pediatrics, The Journal of

Arthritis

Chronic Kidney Disease

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Congestive Heart Failure

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 21e; Chapter 259: Cardiomyopathy and Myocarditis  This link opens in a new window

Depression

Diabetes

Hyperlipidemia

Substance Use Disorders