Background: Whiteboard mini lectures (WMLs), a “chalk talk” subtype, are interactive, small group sessions that use a whiteboard and markers as the primary teaching tools, A distinguishing feature of WMLs is the flexibility to creatively teach material by combining written text with novel, hand-drawn visuals such as diagrams, flow charts, and graphics. Assessment of WMLs [...]

Case Presentation: The patient is an 82-year-old female with multiple medical problems including stroke who presents with change in mental status. The patient is normally alert and oriented x3 but 3 days ago, she noted that she was depressed. She started to talk about things that did not make any sense. She stated that she [...]

Case Presentation: 53-year-old postmenopausal Caucasian female presented with low-trauma, recurrent metatarsal fractures. She reports her first metatarsal fracture at age 21, and since then had at least 8 more metatarsal fractures over her lifetime. On further inquiry, she reported history of gait disturbance as a child and dental issues (spacing and loosening). Labs showed normal [...]

Case Presentation: A 57-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with confusion, generalized weakness, poor appetite, abdominal pain, depressed mood, and constipation for the past week. She states that she has auditory hallucinations and paranoia and thinks a man is going to kill her which caused her to stay at home. She did not have [...]

Case Presentation: We report a 58 year old Caucasian male who presented with abdominal pain, fever and intractable vomiting. Past history was significant for laparoscopic cholecystectomy three weeks earlier complicated by post-operative bile leak that was managed conservatively. Physical examination was remarkable for diffuse abdominal tenderness most prominent in the right upper quadrant. Preliminary laboratory [...]

Case Presentation: A 19-year-old male presented with three days of fevers, cough, and pleuritic chest pain. He had a history of cystic fibrosis (CF) with lung and pancreatic involvement and allergic bronchiopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA). Home medications were albuterol, dornase alfa, 3% normal saline, inhaled tobramycin, voriconazole, and pancrelipase. He was febrile, tachycardic, and had diminished [...]

Case Presentation: A 20-year-old male presented with low back pain, lower extremity weakness, and bladder incontinence and was subsequently found to have cord compression due to lytic lesions found in his cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spine. The pathology from the sacral biopsy revealed ALK positive LBCL. The biopsy was positive for plasma cell markers [...]

Case Presentation: A previously healthy 16-month-old girl presented to the emergency department with refusal to walk following a fall. She was lowering herself from a high bed when she fell backwards, hitting her buttocks and lower back without a head strike. Over the next couple days, the patient was fussy and less active. She refused [...]

Case Presentation: A 44-year-old African American female with a medical history of chronic heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) presented with a six month history of multiple hospitalizations for acute decompensated HFpEF and right upper quadrant pain. One month ago, she presented with an acute elevation of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) to greater than four [...]

Case Presentation: An 89-year-old year old woman with a history of type II diabetes mellitus, insulin-naïve and well-controlled on a regimen of metformin, sitagliptin, and dapagliflozin, presented with 3 days of nausea, vomiting, and poor intake of food and liquids. She had recently been prescribed cephalexin for a suspected UTI. She reported a subacute history [...]