Residents Perspective & Journal Articles

• Episode 2: The Role of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Major Depressive Disorder   Madhukar Trivedi, MD, and Jonathan Downar, MD, review the evidence on the efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation as a treatment for major depressive disorder.
  Medscape, May 11, 2022
• Episode 1: Novel Treatments in MDD: Ketamine and Esketamine   Madhukar Trivedi, MD, and Manish Jha, MD, MBBS, review the evidence on the efficacy of esketamine and ketamine as a treatment for major depressive disorder.
  Medscape, May 11, 2022
• Online Physician Reviews: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly More patients are finding their healthcare providers online on the basis of physician reviews and ratings. But what if those results are completely misleading or inaccurate?
  Medscape Blogs, May 11, 2022
• Estimating SARS-CoV-2 Through Wastewater Surveillance Wastewater surveillance for the monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 may help identify potential variants of concern.
  Emerging Infectious Diseases, May 11, 2022
• Stimulating Inadequate Neonatal Respiration at Birth Every frontline pediatrician has sweated through those minutes that seemed like hours in the delivery room when some little rascal has decided that breathing isn't a priority.
  Medscape Pediatrics, May 10, 2022
• Sleep More, Weigh Less? Dr Aaron Holley looks at the current association of weight gain with sleep deprivation.
  Medscape Critical Care, May 10, 2022
• Finding Your Wolfpack in Academic Medicine How I learned to surround myself with like-minded people in academic medicine to no longer feel "out of place."
  Medscape Blogs, May 10, 2022
• Tracking the Evolution of Management Options in Wet AMD   Sunir Garg, MD, recalls an uncomfortable conversation with his first patient with wet AMD and reflects on therapeutic advances.
  Medscape, May 09, 2022
• What I Wish I Knew Before Starting My First Job Search You do have a say in what your job looks like and you absolutely deserve that.
  Medscape Blogs, May 09, 2022
• Why Are We a 'Loss Leader' for Procedural Subspecialties? Dr Kenny Lin wishes he could say that family medicine and primary care are in a better position today than a decade ago.
  Georgetown University Family Medicine, May 06, 2022
• How Home Diagnostic Tools Will Alter the Future of Wet Age-Related Macular Degeneration   SriniVas R. Sadda, MD, discusses how the future of home diagnostic tools and home monitoring for patients with exudative (wet) age-related macular degeneration will dramatically alter how patients are managed.
  Medscape, May 06, 2022
• Letter to My Younger (MS-1) Self What if you opened a letter from yourself at the start of med school? From what I've learned about medicine and personal growth in the past 4 years, this is what I would say to my younger self.
  Medscape Blogs, May 06, 2022
• Effectiveness of Masks Against SARS-CoV-2 in Indoor Settings Consistent use of a face mask in indoor public settings was associated with lower odds of a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result, with N95/KN95s offering the best protection, according to this CDC report.
  Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report, May 06, 2022
• Treatment of Ulcerative Colitis: Moving Toward a New Array of Therapeutics   "It is really refreshing and wonderful that our patients have so many more options than we had 20 years ago," says Sandra Quezada, MD, on advances in ulcerative colitis.
  Medscape, May 05, 2022
• Lessons Learned on Guiding Ulcerative Colitis Patients Through Difficult Treatment Decisions   Sandra Quezada, MD, reflects on the lessons and language she learned from her mentor, Raymond Cross, MD, to help patients with ulcerative colitis face difficult treatment decisions.
  Medscape, May 05, 2022
• TV Doctors: I'd Like to Have a Word With You Hollywood needs to hold health professionals to higher standards.
  Medscape Blogs, May 05, 2022
• In Service to Others: APRNs as Leaders During the Pandemic During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, APRNs have risen to the challenge to provide effective nursing leadership.
  OJIN: The Online Journal of Issues in Nursing, May 05, 2022
• Pharmacological Treatments of Neuropathic Pain How effective are recommended drug treatments for neuropathic pain? A new study compares four different options.
  Pain, May 05, 2022
• ACC 2022: Unmet Needs and Emerging Therapies in Lipid Management   Erin D. Michos, MD, reflects on ACC 2022 and the clinical implications of the APOLLO trial and the CANTOS study.
  Medscape, May 04, 2022
• Aspirin in Primary Prevention of CVD: Rational Use   The aspirin question returns as the balance of benefits vs harms for some patient groups is reassessed.
  Medscape Ob/Gyn, May 04, 2022