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Clinical practice teaching in out-patient department is an important part of general internal clinical teaching for medical students. From 2010, eight-year program medical students in Huazhong University of Science and Technology began their clinical rotation practice in the out-patient department of general internal medicine. The one-on-one tutoring style was used in clinical teaching. We combined teacher demonstration teaching method with teacher supervision teaching method in clinical practice, and carried out periodical case discussion. At the end of each rotation stage, regular teaching evaluation and examination was taken. It has been proved that our teaching mode can not only help the students improve their professional and practical levels of clinical skills, and also help them gain the clinical working abilities and the professional spirits, which is worthy of further promotion.
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Objective To analyze the disease spectrum of patients admitted to the General Internal Medicine Unit at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, which is the first academic division of general internal medicine in the department of medicine within Chinese medical colleges and universities, and the value of general internal medicine unit in comprehensive hospitals. Methods A retrospective data review of patients admitted to the General Internal Medicine Unit from 2004 to 2008 was conducted from hospital information system and partially by chart review manually. Analysis of disease spectrum was performed thereafter. Results A total of 2593 patients were included in our study. It consisted of 1075 men and 1518women, with an average age of 45.1 years old. Forty point three percent of these patients were from Beijing,the local city, and the remaining 59.7% were from outside of Beijing. Sixty-four point nine percent (1683/2593)of these patients did not have a clear diagnosis on admission, including 758 fever of unknown origin (FUO) cases and 925 non-FUO cases. The final diagnostic rate of the FUO cases was 89. 2% [676/758, with the first three leading causes as diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue (29. 8%), certain infectious and parasitic diseases(26.3%), and neoplasm (14. 5%)] . The final diagnostic rate of the 928 non-FUO cases was 86. 8%(803/925), with the first three leading causes as musculoskeletal system and connective tissue(24.9%), neoplasm (15.5%), and diseases of blood and blood-forming organs(11.4%). Despite most diagnoses fitting into the above categories, the array of diseases was broad with as many as 550 discharge diagnoses from 2004 to 2008. Conclusions During 2004 -2008, there was a high proportion of cases that presented to the General Internal Medicine Unit at Peking Union Medical College Hospital with an unclear diagnosis, and the spectrum of diseases diagnosed was very broad. This kind of patient admitting model might not only benefit patients with no clear admission diagnosis and patients with multidisciplinary medical problems for whom it is usually difficult to be admitted by a specialty unit, but would also benefit medical students and residents by providing a good clinical medicine teaching base. These features show the value of general internal unit in comprehensive hospitals.
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Our hospital comprises nine departments of internal medicine that specialize in different organs, and the Department of General Internal Medicine is one of these departments. The inpatient department has 30 beds for providing medical care, and education is provided for junior and senior residents. We examined the diagnoses in 593 cases (289 men, 304 women ; mean age, 64.2±21.2 years old) who were hospitalized in the Department of General Internal Medicine at this hospital between April 2007 and March 2008. The major diseases included pneumonia, 111 cases ; urinary tract infections, 44 cases ; infectious enteritis, 34 cases ; bronchial asthma, 24 cases ; fever of unknown origin, 12 cases ; heart failure, 11 cases ; viral infections 9 cases, diverticulitis, 8 cases ; malignant lymphoma, 7 cases ; infectious mononucleosis, 7 cases ; polymyalgia rheumatica, 6 cases ; and others. In order to provide diagnoses and treatments for cases in which no diagnosis could not be obtained on the first outpatient visit, for example, it is necessary to have a ward for general internal medicine as a location for providing medical care that is not limited to any specialized field.
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International medical community has seen the prevail of outpatient teaching for medical students in recent years. A student-centered and faculty-run teaching clinic was set up based on current outpatient resources in 2008 by Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM) in Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH). We concluded that teaching clinic was an effective teaching mode for medical students to improve clinical skills, diagnostic proficiency and health-care professionalism in internal medicine.
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Objective: To investigate the role of postgraduate clinical training at the emergency department of Tenri Hospital in teaching the diagnostic process in the general outpatient department.<BR>Method: Patients seen by 11 first-year residents at the emergency department were consecutively registered with summary sheets. Further information was added, and an analysis was performed of: 1) the distribution of chief complaints in the emergency and general outpatient departments and 2) initial diagnoses and the diagnostic process in the emergency department and the final diagnoses.<BR>Results: The distributions of chief complaints in 89 cases in the emergency department and in 183 cases in the general outpatient department were closely correlated (p=0.0016). Diagnoses in the emergency department were correct in 58% of cases. Treatment was incorrect in 3% of cases.<BR>Conclusion: The distributions of chief complaints in the emergency and general outpatient departments were similar. In our hospital the emergency department plays a major role in postgraduate clinical training by teaching the diagnostic process for the general outpatient department. Clinical management, including decision making for further tests and consultation, in the emergency department by first year residents did lead to any major adverse events.
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The working group on the education of general medicine, Japan Society for Medical Education, has defined general medicine as a discipline which includes following three areas; 1) basic clinical skills which incorporate humane health care, 2) comprehensive community and family medicine and 3) general internal medicine which provides integrated services to solve clinical problems at any level. It has also issued a proposal on undergraduate education of general medicine at university hospitals. The working group now propose a detailed sample curriculum which describes the instruction in three areas mentioned above. Overview, General Instructional Objective (GTO), Specific Behavioral Objectives (SBOs), Learning Strategies (LS) and Evaluation are included in this sequence.
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General Internal Medicine, as well as Family Medicine, plays an important role in the primary care of North America. General internists in Canada are virtually hospital-based physicians. However, most general internists in the United States are community-based primary care physicians. Although the system in both countries are different, the training of General Internal Medicine is very similar. General internists comprehensively manage patients with complex illnesses such as one with difficult diagnoses, multiproblem or chronic illness. In addition to basic clinical knowledge and skills, they teach students and residents clinical epidemiology, evidence based medicine and clinical decision making.
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Both specialties of general internal medicine and general medicine have been launched at university hospitals and accredited teaching hospitals in 1970's in Japan. Although both were intended to embody holistic medicine in the era of progressive fragmentation of medicine, the former was the attempt from the very center of excessive fragmentation of internal medicine and the latter, request from the general public seeking for more general approach. The future development of both primary care oriented specialties depend on the realization of quality general practice attracting young physicians of next generation into these fields.<BR>Current curriculums employed in both specialty education are driving the shift of the site of clinical education, i. e., from ward to ambulatory clinic.
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We have an outpatient department and a ward (52 beds) in the department of general internal medicine of the Second Tokyo National Hospital. During the rotation of interns for 8 weeks, interns are taught outpatient management by clinical educators one-on-one basis in the clinic, in addition to inpatient management on the wards, and series of lectures on the general internal medicine, emergency medicine and psychosocial issues. We have a residency program from PGY 3 through PGY 5, which emphasizes outpatient continuous management throughout residency. Our residents present their outpatient cases at the daily outpatient conference that all of us would attend. There are 17 graduates of our residency, many of whom are now clinical educators not only in our hospital but also in the university hospitals and teaching hospitals. Research on the way of training rotation of interns by the national hospitals group suggested superiority of the super-rotate training system of the intern. The residency of general internal medicine would become more important not only for the training of primary care physicians but for the training of clinical educators.