Zulfiqar Rana, MD, MPH, FACP

Board Certified in Internal Medicine

Teaching Curriculum

Core topics IM ambulatory care


Before you start


History and Physical

Presenting SOAP note

Presenting new History and Physical

Week 1

Diabetes type I


  • Up-to-date: Management of blood glucose in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Diabetes type II


  • Therapy for Diabetes and related disorders (book)
  • Practical Insulin by ADA (book) (or Read “Insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus” AND “Management of blood glucose in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus” from Up-To-Date)
    Medicine Algorithm by ADA
  • Up-to-date: Insulin therapy in type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Up-to-Date: Management of blood glucose in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus
  • Up-to-date: Interactive Diabetes case #17 – new diagnosis
  • Up-to-date: Interactive Diabetes case #16 – deterioration
  • Up-to-date: Interactive diabetes case #2: Switching from oral agents to insulin in type 2 diabetes

Week 2

Hypertension


Hyperlipidemia


Week 3

COPD and ASTHMA


Week 4

CARDIOLOGY


  • Up-to-Date: Overview of primary prevention of coronary heart disease and stroke
  • Up-to-date: Chronic coronary syndrome: Overview of care
  • Up-to-date: Overview of the management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in adults
  • Up-to-date: Initial pharmacologic therapy of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in adults

Miscellaneous topics

Common Infections in Primary Care


  • Up-to-date: Evaluation of acute pharyngitis in adults
  • Up-to-date: Acute otitis media in adults
  • Up-to-date: Uncomplicated acute sinusitis and rhinosinusitis in adults: Treatment
  • Up-to-date: Acute sinusitis and rhinosinusitis in adults: Clinical manifestations and diagnosis
  • Up-to-date: Acute bronchitis in adults
  • Up-to-date: Diagnostic approach to community-acquired pneumonia in adults

Office Orthopedics


  • Up-to-date: Physical examination of the shoulder
  • Up-to-date: Physical examination of the knee
  • Up-to-date: Musculoskeletal examination of the hip and groin
  • Knee injections
  • Shoulder injections

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