Medical School Internal Residency in US

Here are some links of some Department of Medicine in US with an internal medicine residency programs:

• Boston University Medical Center - Residency in Internal Medicine http://bumcmedicine.org/
  
  
  
  
• University of pittsburgh Internal Medicine Residency http://residency.dom.pitt.edu/Program_Overview/tracks/globalhealth.html

• Brown medical school - Internal Medicine International Health Tract http://www.brownmedicine.org/

• Case Western Reserve University at MetroHealth Medical Center - Internal Medicine Residency Program and an International Health Track http://www.metrohealth.org/body.cfm?id=619&oTopID=C

• West Virginia University - Health Sciences Center: International Health Program http://www.hsc.wvu.edu/som/medicine/

• Georgetown University

http://medicine.georgetown.edu/residency/

It is with pleasure that we announce the appointment of Bruce Luxon, MD, PhD, as the new Chair of the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center, and the Chief of Service for the Department of Medicine at Georgetown University Hospital. In addition to his chair and chief appointments, Dr. Luxon will hold the Anton and Margaret Fuisz Professorship in Medicine.

In his role at Georgetown, Dr. Luxon is responsible for fostering the clinical, educational and research missions (clinical, translational and basic) of the department. Dr. Luxon’s leadership will provide maximum support to the strengths and mission of each of these areas, and he will join the leadership at GUH/GUMC which has contributed greatly to the recent success of the Department of Medicine as well as provided access to resources and opportunities for growth from multiple entities.

Dr. Luxon joins Georgetown from the University of Iowa School of Medicine, where he is Professor of Internal Medicine, Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology and holds the James A. Clifton Chair in Gastroenterology. Prior to joining the University of Iowa, he was Professor of Internal Medicine and Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Training Program at Saint Louis University's School of Medicine. Dr. Luxon's clinical focus is in hepatology, with special expertise in autoimmune hepatitis and cholestatic liver diseases as well as hepatitis C. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in Transplant Hepatology. His research focuses on hepatic stellate cells and the role they play in causing liver fibrosis and cirrhosis.

He is the recipient of the American Liver Foundation's Liver Scholar Award and has served as governor of the Missouri chapter of the American College of Gastroenterology as well as serving in a number of other leadership roles and receiving several academic awards. He also has served on several NIH study sections and is a member of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), a fellow of the American College of Gastroenterology (ACG), and a member of the American Gastroenterological Association. He currently serves on several national committees including the National Affairs Committee of the ACG, the Training and Clinical Policy Committee of the AASLD. He is the Associate Liver Editor for the American Journal of Gastroenterology. He is also a reviewer for a number of scientific journals, including Hepatology, the American Journal of Physiology and the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Dr. Luxon will join Georgetown on October 1, 2009.

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Murphy's Law applied in medecine !

A math teacher wanted to demonstrate the laws of probability to their students. It spread 30 slices of bread with peanut butter and threw in the air to see. 29 landed with the buttered side on the ground and the thirtieth remained glued to the ceiling.
This is the demonstration of Murphy's law: "if something should happen, it will go through and at the worst possible time and the worst way"

Law gloves
1. The gloves do not tear, unless the risk of contamination is real.
2. When orders for gloves because there are more in reserve, is out of stock at the supplier.

The Law of EMS
Urgently awaits to present you begin eating, and whatever the hour. There would be fewer accidents if the ER staff did not eat.

Poisoning law
All patients who are vomiting and should be a gastric lavage to emergencies are always finished a hearty meal made of roasted onions, garlic pizza and pickles, of course together with a good piece of meat.

Law of Gravity
Any instrument fell on the floor will nest in the most inaccessible corner.

Law of Time
1. There is absolutely no relationship between time spent on call you need to do and time will you actually do.
2. if you end your service at 8:00, your last statement will be held at 7:59.

Law of Time and Distance
1. The distance between the intervention and the Hospital is inversely proportional to your call time remaining.
2. there are always work on the shortest route to the site of intervention.
3. Emergencies occur randomly at the same time.


Equipment law
1. Any piece of equipment vital not ever fall down until: You need to save a life.
2. The automatic mode works only in manual.

Ambulances in Intervention law
No matter how you drive the ambulance based on a speech, it will never be fast enough, until you see a police patrol and at this moment, it is always too fast. Unless it is a call for a police officer who will die, and then you can never drive fast enough.

Toilets and Emergency law
1. Every call is always received when you are in the bathroom. If you exit, there will be no appeal.
2.La probability of receiving a call increases proportionally with the time passed since you went to the toilet.
3. If you do not answer the call you will regret.

Law of light:
Available light to examine a wound decreases proportionally to the aggravation of it.

The Theory of Weight
1. The weight of a patient increases exponentially with the number of floors that you must climb.
2. If the patient is heavy, the elevator is down and the lighting of the stairway off.

The law of the doctor outside the hospital
Any doctor at the scene of an emergency gynecologist is, until proven otherwise (if the obstetric emergency, the doctor will then dermatologist).

For veterinarians
If you take a bath and you are "all good / all clean, get ready to make a visit especially immonde where you will be sure to crawl under a cow.

Laws of pharmacy
1. It was only time to need a drug that will realize that there are more in the pharmacy.
2. It is also at this time we realize that there are more in the pharmacy services.
3. When we finally found the last bottle of the drug in question, it is outdated.
4. This kind of problem always takes place on Thursday evening, while nothing more can be ordered for the weekend.
5. There are always the product you are looking at the last place where one regarde.6. The drug that does not is visible at eye level.

Bonus:

• "If everything seems to work well, you have overlooked something necessarily
  thing "
• "Every solution brings new problems"
• "Anything that goes down eventually"
• "All that pleasure is illegal, immoral or thickens"
• "In the queues, the queue next to advance faster"
• "Men and women are really interesting already taken, and if not, there is a reason hidden" - it is shocking! subject! to discuss:)
• "If it seems too good to be true, then it is
  probably "
• "The qualities that attract a woman to a man are usually those that can no longer bear a few years later" - it is also to discuss :)

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The syndrome of the medical student

First clear from your head the idea that a syndrome is a disease characterized by severe deformities and mental retardations and bla bla .. of course there are syndromes as I described but for the most part they are other than that .. So:
A syndrome is a set of clinical signs and symptoms that a patient is likely to present at certain diseases.

Let explain more The syndrome of the medical student of which sometimes I have suffered ;-)

The syndrome of the medical student refers to the tendency of medical students
to self-diagnose in an irrational way the most serious diseases. It is more
a meeting of circumstances than a true pathology.

The syndrome is caused by several factors:

• Learning semiology preceding pathology: Students know the signs of major diseases and syndromes, without sufficient experience of how really this pathology can affect the body.
• Stress associated with emotionally difficult situations and possibly fear of contagion in the workplace.

The syndrome of the medical student should be distinguished from:

• Hypochondria, which is a psychiatric illness making the hypochondriac persuaded to be suffering from sickness, delirious, or morbid fear of catching a disease;
• Self-medication;
• Self-diagnosis, although it is difficult.

The syndrome of the medical student declines as the student get far in its medical curriculum for several reasons: the acquisition of knowledge about the disease;

• Relativization with patients seen at the hospital;
• The psychological resistance;
• Confrontation with reality: he has not got the diseases! (eg other supposed symptoms are absent).

Note that the syndrome of the medical student can be expressed in a negative form: irrational denial of a real disease, because students can not gather all the signs of this disease.

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