UConn IM Residency Podcast 🎙️

When it comes to respiratory illness, it can be challenging to evaluate and triage patients in the outpatient setting. In this episode we work through some clinical pearls that can help you evaluate your patients. Remember that completing a thorough history and physical exam can be extremely helpful in guiding you in your diagnosis and management of pneumonia in the outpatient setting.  Author/Hos...

We commonly diagnose and treat patients with hypertension in the outpatient setting. There are many classes of medications and related disease processes that we could talk about; however, today we will be primarily focusing on diagnosis and non-pharmacological management. Thank you for listening! Author/Host/Editor: Rob Harmon, DO

Continuing on with our ambulatory series, today we will explore the topic of anemia. We cover everything from the history and physical exam to treatment of anemia in the outpatient setting with a focus on microcytic anemias, specifically: iron deficiency anemia. Thanks for listening!

Channel your inner neuro critical care specialist in this episode wherein Dr. Grover teaches us how to manage neurologic emergencies commonly seen in the ICU. Author: Dr. Mari-Elena Pino, Internal Medicine PGY-3, UCONN Host: Dr. Ritika Kompella, Internal Medicine PGY-3, UCONN Guest speaker: Dr. Prashant Grover, Pulmonary Critical Care, St. Francis Hospital Editor: Dr. Robert Harmon, Chief Medical...

Welcome back to the UConn IM Podcast, this week we are taking a break from the pulmonary and critical care mini-series to kick off our ambulatory series! Today we will review vision loss in the primary care setting. We review the most common types of vision loss and discuss key components of the physical exam as well as treatment options. Thank you for listening! Author/Host/Editor: Rob Harmon, DO

Understanding right heart catheterizations got you down? In this episode, Dr. Parikh takes us on a deep dive of pulmonary hypertension, giving you the tools to crush your next CCU, ICU and pulm rotations. Author: Dr. Mari-Elena Pino, Internal Medicine PGY-3, UCONN Host: Dr. Ritika Kompella, Internal Medicine PGY-3, UCONN Guest speaker: Dr. Raj Parikh, Pulmonary Critical Care, Hartford Hospital Edi...

Develop your bartending skills in the ICU by learning how to create the ideal sedation cocktail. We sat down with Dr. Grover, one of the program’s favorite educators, to discuss how to achieve RASS goals and more. Author: Dr. Siddharth Venkat Ramanan, Internal Medicine PGY-3, UCONN Host: Dr. Ritika Kompella, Internal Medicine PGY-3, UCONN Guest speaker: Dr. Prashant Grover, Pulmonary Critical Care...

Host/Editor: Dr. Robert Harmon, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. With this episode we will wrap up the ambulatory series for the 2022-2023 academic year. Huge shoutout to Alla Turshudzhyan for all of the work that she put into the podcast over the last year. We are very excited for her as she moves on to the next phase of her career! For my inaugural episode, we will be discussing medical abortion...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Understanding the difference between palliative care and hospice is crucial. Many patients and their families equate palliative care with end-of-life care. Palliative care focuses on symptom management and unlike hospice, it is provided based on patient’s needs, not based on prognosis. Palliative care is frequently done along wit...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Let's talk about how to work up anorectal disease in the ambulatory setting. As primary care physicians, we have a unique opportunity to be the first ones to recognize anorectal pathology and start appropriate and timely work up. Thank you for listening.

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Urinary incontinence is extremely common and is an underreported condition because of embarrassment associated with its symptoms and lack of knowledge about treatment options. There are many risk factors for urinary incontinence and some of them are modifiable, so it is crucial that we educate our patients about them. The main ty...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Working up shoulder pain can be deceivingly simple - you have to consider traumatic vs non-traumatic, extrinsic vs intrinsic shoulder pathology, and glenohumeral vs extra-glenohumeral pathology. Further diagnostic imaging should be guided by history, physical exam, and special tests. Consider ordering an US if your facility offer...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Let's follow the White Rabbit down to the Wonderland that is DSM-5 and review criteria for personality disorders together! Music for this episode is by Aleksey Chistilin and the opening quote is from Alice in Wonderland (the movie). Thank you for listening.

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Majority of peripheral disease (PAD) cases are asymptomatic with only about 25% of patients presenting with claudication, rest pain, gangrene, and limb ulcerations. Ankle-brachial index (ABI) is a first-line diagnostic test. ABI of less than 0.9 is consistent with PAD. ABI greater than 1.3 is a sign of noncompressible calcified v...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. PCOS is a complex condition and is quite common. It’s presenting symptoms are ovulatory and menstrual irregularity, subfertility or infertility, clinical hyperandrogenism, metabolic dysfunction, and/or polycystic ovaries. Since the condition was first described in 1935, a lot has changed in our understanding of the pathophysiolog...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Kidney stones are common and majority of the stones are made up of calcium oxalate, followed by calcium phosphate, uric acid, cystine, and struvite stones. The recurrence rate of kidney stones is quite high, but there are a lot of modifiable risk factors that are crucial we educate our patients about. Some of the modifiable risk...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Functional bowel disorders are common. They are still poorly understood and remain a highly stigmatized condition. Establishing a trusting relationship with your patient can help set realistic expectations from the start and work towards symptom control to improve quality of life. Multidisciplinary approach is recommended with tr...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. There are two major categories of hearing loss – conductive and sensorineural. By far, the most common is presbycusis, which is an age related sensorineural hearing loss. Sudden sensorineural hearing loss can be caused by viral infection, medications, barotrauma, loud noise, as well as some autoimmune conditions such as Sjogren o...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Let’s talk about diarrhea, more specifically acute diarrhea. When approaching acute diarrhea, it is helpful to break down each case into infectious vs. non-infectious and inflammatory vs. non-inflammatory. Work up is usually escalated to match the severity of presentation. Stool studies are reserved for severe cases and should be...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Majority of skin and soft tissue infections are caused by MRSA, MSSA, group A strep or other beta-hemolytic strep. Some of these infections are more likely to present with abscess formation, while others are unlikely to be purulent. Let's talk about typical presentations for skin infections and their management.  We hope you...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. While breast cancer is the most common cancer diagnosis, only about 5-15% of breast masses that are biopsied result in diagnosis of cancer. This means that 85-95% of all breast masses that are biopsied are benign. Diagnosing breast mass can be tricky, so let's discuss what diagnostic tools we have and how to use them.  We ho...

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Let's discuss proposed pathophysiology of Bell's palsy, its differential diagnosis, and options for therapy.  We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. What is monkeypox? Let's talk about its diagnosis, treatments available and options to prevent transmission.  We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Adults need vaccines too! Let’s discuss vaccination schedules, what to do if vaccination series is incomplete, contraindications and precautions for each of the vaccine types.  We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Host/Editor: Dr. Alla Turshudzhyan, Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Let's discuss PTSD, its diagnostic criteria and management options.  We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.