3rd year Medical Student (Weekly Curriculum during IM rotation)
Week 1 : Back to Basics
1. Importance of a good history
2. Importance of good Physical Examination
3. Understanding Errors in Medicine
- Transition of Care
- Medication Errors
- Diagnostic Errors
4. Physical Examination:
5. Generating a Differential Diagnosis

Week 2: Understanding the basics of Hematology
1. How to approach anemia
2. How to approach Pancytopenia
3. How to approach thrombocytopenia
3. Physical Examination
Week 3: Understanding Cardiology
1. Understanding the work up of Chest Pain (Learn the Differential Diagnosis and Work up Strategy)
2. Evaluation of a person with Edema (Knowing the Differential Diagnosis)
3. Approach to a patient with Heart Failure: Learning From Case Examples
4. Cardiovascular Physical Examination including evaluation of Heart Sounds and Heart Murmur
Week 4: Understanding GIM 1. Evaluation and Management of Hypertension 2. Evaluation and Management of Hyperlipidemia:
Calculator
3. Approach to a patient with Generalized Fatigue 4. Sepsis 5. Physical Examination
Week 5: Understanding GI
1. Diarrhea and Constipation
2. Evaluation and Management of GI Bleeding
3. Jaundice
Week 6: Understanding Nephrology
1. Acute Renal Failure
2. Chronic Kidney Disease
3. Fluid and Electrolyte Disturbances
4. Hypercalcemia and Hypocalcemia
5. Acidosis and Alkalosis
6. Physical Examination Week 7: Approach to Rheumatology
1. How to approach patients with Joint Pain
2. Physical Examination: - Knee Pain
- Low Back Pain:
- Spine and Extremities:
Week 8: Approach to Neurology
1. Syncope, Dizziness and Vertigo
2. Weakness and Paralysis
3. Numbness, Tingling, and Sensory Loss
4. Confusion and Delirium and Dementia
5. Physical Examination:
- Gait Abnormalities:
- Fundoscopic Exam:
Week 9: Approach to Endocrinology - 2 Basic Principles of Endocrinology you MUST always remember
- Principle1
- 1st Step: Screen for the endocrine dysfunction
- 2nd Step: Once screening is positive, do the diagnostic tests
- 3rd Step: Once diagnostic tests is done, only then image to localize the lesion
- Principle 2
- If suspecting hyper-functioning: try to suppress that organ during the screen and diagnostic tests
- If suspecting hypo-functioning: try to stimulate that organ during the screen and diagnostic tests
1. Physical Examination
2. How to approach a patient with DM Week 10: Approach to Pulmonary Diseases
1. Dyspnea (Shortness of Breath)
2. Cough and Hemoptysis
Week 11: Approach to Dermatology from Internal Medicine Perspective
1. Approach to the Patient with a Skin Disorder
2. Eczema, Psoriasis, Cutaneous Infections, Acne, and Other Common Skin Disorders
3. Skin Manifestations of Internal Disease
4. Immunologically Mediated Skin Diseases
5. Cutaneous Drug Reactions
6. Photosensitivity and Other Reactions to Ligh 7. Physical Examination
Week 12: Approach to Oncology Additional Readings from for
3rd year Medical Student (How to approach!)
Cardiology 1.
How to approach arrhythmia and palpitations
2.
How to approach patient with Heart failure
GIM1. Headache
GI / Hepatobiliary1. Dysphagia
Nephro1. Acidosis and Alkalosis
Pulmonology1. Hypoxia and Cyanosis
2. COPD
3. Asthma
Rheumatology1. Musculoskeletal Pain
2.
Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 19e
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