Skill Checkup

• Skill Checkup: A Man With Type 2 Diabetes and Chest Pain A 65-year-old Black man with a 5-year history of type 2 diabetes and a 7-year history of hypertension and hyperlipidemia experienced a 'scary' episode of acute chest pain. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, June 01, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Woman Newly Diagnosed With HIV A 34-year-old woman presents to her general practitioner's office for a routine annual exam and is diagnosed with HIV. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, June 01, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Woman With Cervical Cancer and Cough A 40-year-old woman previously diagnosed with stage IIA cervical cancer presents with a persistent cough during her follow-up surveillance visit following 9 months of treatment. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, June 01, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Man With Lumps and Night Sweats A 62-year-old man presents with unexplained lumps on his neck and under his arm and night sweats. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, May 25, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Woman With Fever and Shortness of Breath An 18-year-old woman presents with a positive COVID-19 antigen test and fever, headache, malaise, muscle pain and shortness of breath when she walks to the bathroom. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, May 11, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Man With Persistent Fatigue A 50-year-old man with asthma was diagnosed with COVID-19 4 months ago. He recovered, but related persistent fatigue still interferes with his daily life. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, May 11, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Man With Painful and Itchy Rash A 58-year-old man who received the live zoster vaccine presents with a painful, itchy rash on his face and trunk. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, May 08, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Woman With Fever and Burning Rash A 40-year-old White woman with rheumatoid arthritis presents with fever, headache, photophobia and a painful, burning rash on her right flank. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, May 08, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Woman Not Vaccinated Against HZ A 70-year-old woman presents at the office for an annual checkup. She is wondering if she is a candidate for vaccination. She has not been vaccinated previously. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, May 08, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Man With Larger Axillary Lymph Node A 68-year-old man has chronic lymphocytic leukemia without del(17p)/TP53 mutation. After treatment, his initial enlarged axillary lymph node is now 60% larger. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, May 04, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Man With IgA Nephropathy and Frothy Urine Six months ago, a 56-year-old Black man was diagnosed with/ treated for primary IgA nephropathy. Today, he presents with fatigue, abdominal pain, and frothy urine. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, May 01, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Man With Type 2 Diabetes and High A1C Level A 55-year-old man with type 2 diabetes had an A1C of 9.0% at diagnosis. With metformin 800 mg/day, he achieved A1C of 8.0% after 6 months. His current A1C is 7.4%. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, April 27, 2023
• Skill Checkup: New Chest Pain in Breast Cancer Survivor A 61-year-old woman presents at a follow-up appointment with upper chest pain and breathing difficulty. She was previously diagnosed and treated for breast cancer. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, April 26, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Postmenopausal Woman With Breast Mass A 53-year-old postmenopausal woman presented with a newly discovered mass in her left breast. Imaging showed a 3.2-cm solid mass in the upper outer quadrant. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, April 21, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Premenopausal Woman With Breast Cancer A 38-year-old premenopausal woman with de novo stage IV invasive ductal carcinoma of the right breast has multiple liver, bone and axillary lymph node metastases. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, April 21, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Man With Back Pain Despite Treatment A 44-year-old man with a history of axial spondyloarthritis presents with moderate to severe lower back pain, despite naproxen treatment. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, April 05, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Woman With Breathlessness, Fatigue, and Agitation A 72-year-old woman presents with breathlessness, extreme fatigue, and weakness, and can be heard wheezing. She is also highly agitated and is sweating profusely. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, April 04, 2023
• Skill Checkup: A Man With New-Onset Palpitations A 62-year-old Black man admitted with fever, chills, malaise, and productive cough later develops episodic palpitations with shortness of breath. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, April 03, 2023
• Skill Checkup: Man With Cervical/Lumbar Dorsalgia A 59-year-old man presents with worsening cervical/lumbar dorsalgia, paresthesia and numbness/tingling in his hands and feet, and muscle weakness in his legs and arms. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, March 31, 2023
• Skill Checkup: Man With Fever and Productive Cough A 19-year-old man presents with fever and productive cough associated with retrosternal chest pain. IgA is 52 mg/dL, IgM is 6 mg/dL, and IgG is 89 mg/dL. How would you manage this patient?
  Medscape, March 31, 2023