Highland Review
Highland Review
On the Final Friday of each month, the Department of Medicine holds an interactive EBM conference series with two components:
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Resident/Faculty Grand Rounds Journal Club
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Updates in Medicine
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Other Curriculum
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The Resident/Faculty Journal Club pairs interested residents with faculty mentors to explore a practice-changing article of interest, providing:
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An inter-disciplinary discussion forum for practice changes
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Structured teaching and continuing education on research methodologies and critical appraisal, and
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An idea generator for new scholarly, QI and advocacy projects.
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As a Grand Rounds, this counts as a scholarly project for residents, and CME is offered for all faculty. Physicians across the Alameda Health System from our 3 hospitals and community clinics participate, and inter-professional invites are sent as appropriate to pharmacists, other specialties, laboratory personnel, and ancillary staff to build relationships and enrich discussion.
Our annual Halloween-themed Update in Medicine covering and debunking Myths & Legends such as…
Updates in Medicine are faculty-led and high-yield overviews of practice-changing research in internal medicine and provide a fast-paced, interactive forum for keeping up to date with the torrent of medical literature. In addition to annual or biennial overviews, we periodically do themed Updates such as Myths & Legends (taking on questions such as do we really need to keep the K above 4 on all hospitalized patients) or Medication Retirement Parties (where we discuss meds that have been proven to not work, or whose harms generally exceed their benefit).
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Other Curriculum
We provide dedicated sessions during academic half day and noon conferences for training on how to read and interpret medical literature. We also have a 4 part series on the fundamentals of clinical reasoning. These fundamental skills are then applied and further developed through morning conferences, resident report and in subspecialty elective rotations.