Case Presentation: A 65-year-old Japanese man presented with a 5-month history of bilateral leg edema. He visited his family doctor 3 months ago and started taking furosemide, but the symptom didn’t improve. His past medical history included chronic atrial fibrillation. He reported malaise, constipation and weight gain but denied fever or night sweats. On admission, [...]

Background: Disseminating scholarly work is an important skill in academic medicine, but it’s not often taught in a systematic way. This may disadvantage students from underrepresented and underprivileged backgrounds who don’t have role models in the biomedical sciences. Writing a clinical vignette – defined as a patient-related case that has educational value to a wider [...]