Mountainlion

A fun and useful (hopefully!) discussion of common causes of fever in children and the general approach an experienced clinician makes as she assesses pediatrics patients with a chief complaint of fever.

A conversation with OB/GYN faculty member, Dr. Jocylen Glassberg, utilizing the "common things are common" approach to evaluating patients with the chief complaint of vaginal symptoms. We also briefly cover the less common causes of these symptoms and talk about "can't miss diagnoses."

Dr. Melody Hou, UCD SOM OB/GYN Co-Clerkship Director and teaching star discusses a case of a patient presenting with acute pelvic pain--the approach to history, exam, labs and imaging.

This case based conversation is about the UCD43 #16--Ear Pain. Please see www.UCD43.com and go to the page "What is the UCD43" for the complete list of UCD43 chief complaints as well as podcasts that address many of them. More to come so stay tuned!

Dr. Stephanie Rasmussen takes you and 2 excellent discussants on an exploration of a case of altered mental status. The UCD43 is a curricular list of 43 common chief complaints that all UCD medical students should be comfortable with by the time they graduate from medical school. We hope other medical schools and residency training programs will also find this list helpful. (For more on the UCD43, please go to www.UCD43.com)

3 stories as told by F2 herself.

An interview with 3 APDIM/AAIM members who have raised the bar on self care and well being in an age of significant healthcare provider burnout.

Another remarkable story of surviving crisis.

Further discussion of grief, the challenge of surviving the loss of a child and the importance of community in that survival.

Dr. Helen Chew talks about John, his loss and the ways in which she was able to survive devastating grief and to find some degree of solace.

An interview with Kaiser Santa Rosa Emergency Medicine physician, Dr. Cheryl McBride, about evacuating her family during the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County, the loss of her family's home and all possessions and the long recovery from the aftermath of the fire in her town and Sonoma County.

Episode explores the death of a close family member from suicide and some of its aftermath.

A conversation about racism in the second grade that transitioned to a frank discussion about racism in college and persevering to realize a dream that Dr. Harris had had since she was 5 years old.

#125--Episode 2--Surviving Crisis--Deployment by Mountainlion

It's been a hard year for everyone in so many ways. What have colleagues who have survived crises learned from their experiences? What do they have to teach us about survival and about life? Listen to this new Mountainlion series, hear their stories and find out.

A conversation with Dr. James Nixon of University of Minnesota about the origin of the term, "mistreatment" as well as about the sources and types of this mistreatment in the medical training environment.

Brief background to why we use questions while teaching learners, the background to the word pimping and why we should stop calling it that...plus 10 tips for artful questioning in the med ed setting.

A wonderful essay from the Annals "On Being a Doctor" Essay collection straight from the heart of a great educator in Internal Medicine. It juxtaposes learning a musical instrument with learning, for the first time, to present a patient at the bedside.

A very timely discussion of how one residency program trains its residents to deal with discrimination from patients.

An interview with one of the presenters--Marina Mutter, MD--from a workshop presented at Denver APDIM in fall 2019 about tapping into Doug Lemov K-12 teaching techniques that, when applied to Medical Education, can be a hit.