Alert and Oriented

We are back for our first episode in 2023! Koushik Kondapi and Tony Kang discuss a case of a patient who presented and was diagnosed after their workup in clinic.

Hosts: Lauren Smith & Daniel Mathew

Discussants: Koushik Kondapi & Tony Kang

A&O Team Member: Kevin Grudzinski

Produced by: Kevin Grudzinski, Lauren Smith & Daniel Mathew

Alert & Oriented is a medical student-run clinical reasoning podcast dedicated to providing a unique platform for early learners to practice their skills as a team in real-time. Through our podcast, we strive to foster a learning environment where medical students can engage with one another, share knowledge, and gain valuable experience in clinical reasoning. We aim to provide a comprehensive and supportive platform for early learners to develop their clinical reasoning skills, build confidence in their craft, and become the best clinicians they can be.

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Rich Abrams

Lauren Smith

NU Internal Med

A fantastic resource, by learners, for learners in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Hospital Medicine.

For the first time, we recorded an episode as a full team! The A&O Team at Rush hosted our Northwestern team in a fun crossover episode. Megan and Nick present a recent case from when Dr. Abrams was on service. Lauren and Daniel team up in the hot seat for the first time as discussants. Listen along as they smoothly navigate this challenging case.

Stay tuned for part two - where the roles will flip with our Rush team visiting Northwestern!

Hosts: Megan Kotzin & Nick Rigler

Discussants: Lauren Smith & Daniel Mathew

A&O Team Member: Rich Abrams & Kevin Grudzinski

Produced by: Megan Kotzin, Nick Rigler, Rich Abrams & Kevin Grudzinski

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Lauren Smith

NU Internal Med

A fantastic resource, by learners, for learners in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Hospital Medicine.

Lauren & Dan lead Northwestern M4's, Joy & Zalman, through a case of a young woman presenting with abdominal pain after returning from a trip to Mexico. Test your clinical reasoning as you listen along!

Hosts: Lauren Smith & Daniel Mathew

Discussants: Joy Huang & Zalman Faltushanskiy

A&O Team Member: Kevin Grudzinski

Produced by: Lauren Smith, Daniel Mathew & Kevin Grudzinski

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Rich Abrams

Lauren Smith

NU Internal Med

A fantastic resource, by learners, for learners in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Hospital Medicine.

Megan hosts Dr. Casey Gashti for a high-yield episode covering everything you wish you knew about the different types of dialysis, how they work, and the different means of access. Dr. Gashti is a nephrologist at Rush and renowned medical educator, loved by all medical students, residents and fellows that work with him; after listening to this episode, you'll understand why.

Host: Megan Kotzin

Guest: Dr. Casey Gashti

Produced by: Megan Kotzin & Kevin Grudzinski

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Dr. Casey Gashti - Rush Nephrology

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Rich Abrams

Lauren Smith

NU Internal Med

A fantastic resource, by learners, for learners in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Hospital Medicine.

Our Rush team, led by Megan Kotzin, Nick Rigler and Dr. Abrams, present a not so basic case to Rush M4's, Hannah Silverman and Kat Tehaney. We have had several episodes with unremarkable labs; however, you may start sweating once the first set of labs for this case come back. Test your clinical reasoning as you listen along!

Host: Nick Rigler & Megan Kotzin

Discussants: Hannah Silverman & Kat Tehaney

A&O Team Member: Dr. Rich Abrams

Produced by: Nick Rigler, Megan Kotzin & Kevin Grudzinski

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Rich Abrams

Lauren Smith

NU Internal Med

A fantastic resource, by learners, for learners in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Hospital Medicine.

Our newest team member, Northwestern M4 Daniel Mathew, leads his classmates, Ryan Tang and Osama Siddiqui, a clinical reasoning duo-extraordinaire, through a case of dysuria that is accompanied by a complaint I bet you do not hear very often.

Not only is their discussion fantastic, but were so lucky to be joined by friend of the pod & Northwestern IM residency program director, Dr. Aashish Didwania, as a special guest. He continues to be a huge support of our project. We hope you enjoy the clinical pearls sprinkled in throughout.

Host: Daniel Matthew

Guest: Dr. Aashish Didwania

Discussants: Ryan Tang and Osama Siddiqui

A&O Team Members: Lauren Smith & Kevin Grudzinski

Produced by: Daniel Matthew, Lauren Smith & Kevin Grudzinski

*Special thanks to NU Chief, Dr. Brianna Valdes, for her contributions to the case.

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Rich Abrams

Lauren Smith

NU Internal Med

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Lauren Smith presents a case of a red eye to Northwestern M4s Phoebe Newell & Chen Chen. The team covers their approach to a patient with HIV and multiple other problems. Test your reasoning as you listen along. Do you know the four key features that our ophthalmology colleagues love for you to cover when calling a consult? Listen along to find out!

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Lauren Smith

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Very alert, a little disoriented - The team got together after hours to have cocktails and talk medicine. It was a dynamic discussion, filled with digressions and reflections, that covered 1) hypertensive intervention in the inpatient setting, 2) procalcitonin, 3) new acute leukemia presentation - what to watch out for. We hope you enjoy.

Listening is best paired with your favorite cocktail, cheers!

Here's a link for a 'Naked & Famous', which was enjoyed during this recording.

- The A&O Team - Kevin, Rich, Megan & Nick

(09:15) - Intervening on an inpatient with hypertension - Nick

(23:45) - Procalcitonin - Megan

(40:10) - A new acute leukemia patient exercise - Kevin

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Rich Abrams

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Megan Kotzin has been hard at work creating a high-yield topic-based clerkship review series. This episode provides an approach to hypercalcemia including important things to include on your differential as well as possible management strategies.

(02:30) - Corrected Calcium

(05:30) - Pseudohypercalcemia

(06:50) - PTH

(11:30) - Severity

(14:30) - Lab Data

(16:45) - Acute Treatment

(21:00) - Long Term Management

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Rich Abrams

A fantastic resource, by learners, for learners in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Hospital Medicine.

A&O is excited to kick things off with the team we have been putting together at Northwestern. We are thrilled to introduce two new team members. Lauren Smith, who is a M4 student applying into IM, joins Kevin Grudzinski for this episode. You will soon also get to meet Dr. Bruce Henschen when he joins us during an upcoming episode.

Lauren presents a case that she saw on a consult service to Northwestern M4s Caroline Zhao & Kelly Vogel. The team discusses diarrhea, BRBPR, and proctitis in a returning traveler. We hope to leave you with a great framework and make this problem a little bit less of a pain in the butt.

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Kelly Vogel

A fantastic resource, by learners, for learners in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Primary Care, Emergency Medicine, and Hospital Medicine.