Background: There are few hospitalist-specific training supports for writing clinical vignettes and case reports. This can limit participation in academic scholarship and opportunities to share informative cases encountered in everyday practice. Efforts to build hospitalists’ scholarly writing capacity—particularly for junior faculty—must effectively counter modifiable barriers including perceived lack of knowledge and ability. Purpose: Our Division [...]

Background: Writing and presenting case reports provides opportunity for scholarly activities and promotes scientific writing and critical thinking. This study assesses Internal Medicine residents’ perceived benefits, challenges, and barriers regarding writing and presenting case reports. Methods: A Qualtrics survey was emailed to total 125 Internal Medicine Residents of the Medical College of Wisconsin. The survey [...]

Background: Scholarly publication is key to success in academic medicine, but busy clinicians need support to build scholarship capacity. Most hospitalists across the country engage in clinical work but have few cost-effective options to disseminate clinically focused work in mainstream journals. Our Division of Hospital Medicine continually encourages publication of research, quality improvement, and medical [...]

Background: Scholarship is crucial in academic medicine. However, most URiM medical students don’t feel prepared to engage in scholarly activity, especially due to lack of mentorship. The URiM Mentorship Platform is a peer mentoring platform at the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), designed to organize collaborative networks and interactions between students and faculty with common [...]

Case Presentation: A 52-year-old destitute G6P6006 woman with an advanced stage Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) presented to the OB/GYN for four-month right breast pain and one-month skin changes. The examination was notable for a diffusely dense and hard to left palpation breast, peau d’orange, medial scarring similar to boils without drainage, absent nipple discharge, and [...]

Case Presentation: A 56-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, polysubstance abuse, and perforated appendicitis presented to the emergency department for one-week right lower quadrant abdominal pain. Of note, two-years prior, the patient had one-day of similar pain associated with nausea and emesis. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen and [...]

Case Presentation: An 84 year-old man with a history of diet-controlled diabetes, atrial fibrillation, and MGUS was admitted for back pain and 30 pounds of unintentional weightloss over 3 months.  His wife also reported that he had had a mild cognitive decline over this period.  On admission, he was noted to have new thrombocytopenia and [...]

Case Presentation: A 51 year-old male with paranoid schizophrenia, hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric hospital for decompensated schizophrenia in the setting of medication nonadherence. Treatment included initiation and up-titration of clozapine. Within three weeks, he developed generalized abdominal pain, non-bilious non-bloody emesis and diarrhea. Exam was notable for [...]

Case Presentation: A 33-year-old man presented to the emergency department with sudden onset, severe abdominal pain radiating toward the back. Medical history included bipolar disorder treated with bupropion, sertraline, and lamotrigine. Surgical history included prior appendectomy. There was no history of sick contacts, alcohol use, gallstones, or peptic ulcer disease. On exam he was tachycardic [...]

Case Presentation: A 74-year-old female patient presented to the clinic with a decade-long history of severe joint pain in her hands, escalating weakness in her arms and legs, difficulty gripping or holding objects, dysphagia, impacting daily activities. Past medical history includes sicca complex and fibromyalgia, with a family history of her sister having rheumatoid arthritis. [...]