Resident Readiness Internal Medicine

Dr. Debra L. Klamen is Associate Dean of Education and Curriculum as well as Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical Education at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (Springfield, Illinois). She is also a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at SIU.

Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Inpatient Medicine
1. Patients with Abdominal Pain
2. a 64-year-old Woman Who Is Found Unresponsive
3. A 65-year-old Woman with Chest Pain
4. An 80-year-old Man with Generalized Weakness
5. A 48-year-old Man with Restlessness, Tremulousness, and Hypertension
6. Arrhythmias
7. A 40-year-old Man with Chest Pain
8. A 64-year-old Man with Increasing Dyspnea
9. A 40-year-old Woman with Shortness of Breath
10. Delirium
11. Diabetes Emergencies
12. A 64-year-old Male Requiring Diabetes Management in the Hospital
13. Diarrhea in Hospitalized Patients
14. A 86-year-old Women with Fever
15. A 76-year-old Woman with a UTI and Hypernatremia
16. Gastrointestinal Bleeding
17. A 70-year-old Femal with Acute Onset of Dyspnea
18. An 89-year-old Man with Acute Respiratory Failure Requiring Intubation
19. A 77-year-old Man in Need of Nutritional Support
20. An 80-year-old Woman with Pain after a Fracture Repair
21. a 78-year old Woman in Need of a Preoperative Risk Assessment
22. A 72-year-old Man with Pneumonia
23. Respiratory Failure
24. A 60-year-old Woman with Loss of Consciousness
25. A 25-year-old Patient with Fever, Vomiting, and Flank Pain
26. A 78-year-old Woman with Slurred Speech
27. A 21-year-old Female with Loss of Consciousness
28. A 32-year-old Woman with Fever, Chills, and Weakness Status Post a Blood Transfusion
29. A 75-year-old Man with Dyspnea and Pleuritic Chest Pain
II. Outpatient Medicine
30. A 55-year-old Woman with Cough and Shortness of Breath
31. Cancer Screening
32. A 65-year-old Man with a GFR of 55
33. A 46-year-old Woman with Chronic Pain
34. A 37-year old Woman with Low Energy and Difficulty Sleeping
35. A 55-year-old Woman is Diagnosed with Diabetes
36. A 69-year-old Man Diagnosed with Metastatic Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
37. An 80-year-old Woman with Headache
38. Evaluation and Management of Lipid Disorders
39. A 55-year-old Man with a History of Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 and Hypertension
40. Immunizations and Other Preventive Medicine
41. A 36-year-old Woman with Nasal Congestion
42. A 22-year-old Woman with Urinary Frequency and Suprapublic Pain
III. Transitions of Care
43. A 76-year-old Man Discharged after an Upper GI Bleed
44. A Woman with Mild Dementia and a CHF Exacerbation
45. A Patient in Respiratory Distress
46. A 78-year-old Woman Taking Multiple Medications
47. A 63-year-old Man with Urosepsis
48. A 72-year-old Man with Social Issues
Index