UConn IM Residency Podcast 🎙️

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss the treatment of opiate use disorder. We will focus on the screening, severity of opiate use disorders, and the treatment options that are currently available. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Maria Gabriela Fernandez Manrique, PGY-3 Internal Medicine Resident at UCONN and future Endocrinology Fellow at Brown University. Editor: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss hyperlipidemia with a focus on how to perform risk assessment and treatment with lipid-lowering agents and other recommendations. We hope you enjoy this episode...

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about health literacy. We will discuss why this topic is so important in medicine and particularly primary care, its epidemiology, risk factors, health outcomes, and how to approach it. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Maria Gabriela Fernandez Manrique, PGY-3 Internal Medicine Resident at UCONN and future Endocrinology Fellow at Brown University. Editor: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss an important topic: Refugee and Immigrant Health. We will focus on relevant considerations and the approach to refugee and immigrant health in the outpatient se...

Speaker: Dr. Ritika Kompella, PGY-1 Internal Medicine Resident at UCONN. Editor: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about a crucial activity during residency and patient care: presentations. This episode will focus on floor presentations (also known as presentations on the wards). We will talk about what they are, how to perform them effectively,...

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about the importance of occupational and environmental medicine in the primary care setting. We will focus on taking a history of both occupational and environmental factors and what are their effects on our health. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about asthma covering its definition, epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management in the outpatient setting. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about the primary care of transgender patients. This is an important subject in which we as physicians do not feel as comfortable and need to continue learning and practicing. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Maria Gabriela Fernandez Marique, PGY-3 Internal Medicine Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about fibromyalgia covering its clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and management of the disease. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about colorectal cancer screening. We will focus on why colon cancer screening is needed, what are the current guideline recommendations, what are the test modalities we can consider for screening, and screening in high-risk patients. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Ritika Kompella, PGY-1 Internal Medicine Resident at UCONN. Editor: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about a critical activity during residency and patient care: sign-outs. We will talk about what they are, how to perform them effectively, what needs to be included, and a few examples to help you understand them more!  We hope...

Speaker: Dr. Maria Gabriela Fernandez Manrique, PGY-3 Internal Medicine Resident at UCONN and future Endocrinology Fellow at Brown University. Editor: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss the outpatient management of heart failure. We will focus on the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, classification, and management of heart failure. We hope yo...

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of Lyme disease. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of hypothyroidism.  We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss the screening, evaluation, and treatment of hepatitis C infection in the primary care setting. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss headaches in the primary care setting focusing on the classification of headaches, what are the red flags and who needs urgent workup or referral, and the treatment options for the most common types of headaches. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Meghan Snuckel, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about discussing prognosis with a critically ill patient. We hope you enjoy this episode! Thank you for listening.

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about falls in the elderly. We will focus on which patients need to be screened for falls and review screening questions, which functional assessments can be used to identify patients at elevated fall risk and describe interventions that can help reduce the risk of falls. We hope you enjoy this episode!...

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about preoperative cardiovascular evaluation with a focus on how to identify the patient's risks, surgical risk, and functional status. We will cover the 2014 ACC/AHA guideline algorithm guideline on perioperative cardiovascular evaluation and management of patients undergoing noncardiac surgery. We hope...

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about the perioperative management of non-cardiac conditions. We will review perioperative management goals and importance, focusing on non-cardiac conditions providing an approach to the evaluation of those risks, how to assess surgical risk, medication management, and the strategies for risk mitigation...

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about the treatment of unipolar major depressive disorder describing the pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapeutic options. Thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy this episode.

Speaker: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will talk about the screening and diagnosis of depression. We will cover what are the risk factors for depression, the importance of screening for depression in the primary care setting, what are the tools available for screening, the clinical manifestations, and the diagnosis of depression. Thank you for listenin...

Speaker: Our wonderful Dr. Kaitlyn Klibanoff-Dombrowski, PGY-2 Internal Medicine Resident at UCONN. Editor: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss racism and anti-racism in medicine. Raising awareness and promoting change. Thank you for listening. We hope you enjoy this episode.

Speaker: Dr. Meghan Snuckel, PGY4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. Editor: Dr. Meghan Snuckel, PGY4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN In this podcast, we will discuss the approach to neck pain with regard to what questions to ask in your history and how to approach the physical exam. We will also discuss the differential diagnosis, and identification of red flags that would require immediate imaging...

Speaker: Dr. Kaitlyn Klibanoff-Dombrowski, PGY-2 Internal Medicine Resident at UCONN. Editor: Dr. Juan Chango, PGY-4 Chief Medical Resident at UCONN. In this podcast, we will discuss the red eye going from the history and physical exam considerations, differential diagnosis, identification of alarm signs and when to refer to ophthalmology, and a review of conjunctivitis. Thank you for listening.&n...