RheumMadness 2023: The Results Are In

All authors are part of the Rheumatology Fellowship Program at Ohio State College of Medicine, Columbus.

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In the end, the competition came down to Cortisone vs. Etanercept for RA, with Cortisone racing away with the win.

RheumMadness is an online collaborative learning experience created to educate trainees, rheumatologists and the wider medical community about recent advances and important concepts in rheumatology. The project is funded by the Rheumatology Research Foundation Clinician Scholar Educator (CSE) Award and modeled after NephMadness, an educational initiative of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD) that…

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