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Ultrasound Training Tips & Pitfalls

Eugene Kissin, MD, RhMSUS; Paul J. DeMarco, MD, FACP, FACR, RhMSUS; Daniel G. Malone, MD, RMSK; Catherine Bakewell, MD, RhMSUS; Karina Torralba, MD, FACR, CCD, RhMSUS; Rany al Haj, MD; Narandra Bethina, MD, RhMSUS; Clara Lin, MD, RhMSUS; Amy M. Evangelisto, MD, RhMSUS; Jay Higgs, MD, RhMSUS; & Midori Jane Nishio, MD, RhMSUS  |  

The past 20 years have seen dramatic changes in the practice of rheumatology, ranging from bench to bedside therapeutic advances to dramatic improvements in diagnostic imaging. The results have been gratifying for our patients and attractive to internal medicine trainees making subspecialty career decisions. We are pleased to provide this article for The Rheumatologist’s wide-ranging…

For Residents, Mystery Patients Often Require Rheumatologist Advice

Veena S. Katikineni, MD  |  

As a first-year internal medicine resident, I find myself consulting rheumatologists for just about every mystery patient in our hospital. Like many residents, I was initially intimidated by the complexity of this elusive field. At first glance, diagnosis and management seem completely inaccessible to a first-year resident. But several rheumatology consults later, I can confidently…

The Choose Rheumatology Experience Addresses Workforce Shortage

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Medical students and residents are choosing careers in rheuma­tology, thanks to an annual event hosted by the Rheumatology Research Foundation during the ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting. The Choose Rheumatology Experience, formerly known as the Student and Resident Experience, is a daylong event designed to help future physicians and health professionals navigate the Annual Meeting. Cultivating interest…

Mentoring May Help Address Workforce Shortage

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Like other areas of medicine, rheumatology is facing a significant workforce shortage. As documented in a recently published study by the ACR, the demand for rheuma­tology clinical services is expected to exceed the supply of rheumatology providers by 2030.1 Without a concerted effort to explore ways to retain rheumatology providers in the workforce, this imbalance…

The State of the Science: Annual Research Meetings Foster Collaboration & Mentorship

David Daikh, MD, PhD, & Abby Abelson, MD, FACR  |  

The 11th annual Investigators’ Meeting and the Rheumatology Research Workshop, held in June in San Francisco, were by all accounts great successes. California sunshine greeted more than 120 attendees as we came together to share the latest advances and updates in rheumatology research. These annual meetings have something for every research professional, whether you work…

From Dog Clickers to Scripts—Thoughts on Learning to Teach

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You can purchase a dog clicker for about $3 on Amazon. If you don’t own a dog, this is not a useful piece of information. I don’t own a dog, and the first time I heard the phrase dog clicker, I thought—I think understandably—that it was some sort of remote control. If you don’t own…

Women Internists Make 80 Cents for Every Dollar Earned by Men

Lisa Rapaport  |  

(Reuters Health)—In internal medicine, women earn less than men even when they’re in the same specialty and working the same hours in similar types of medical practices, a U.S. study suggests. Overall, half of male internists have annual salaries of at least $250,000, compared with $200,000 for female internists, the analysis of survey data from…

Current Graduate Medical Education Can’t Meet Future Needs

Arthritis & Rheumatology  |  

In 2005, an ACR Workforce Study estimated the adult rheumatology workforce to be 4,946 providers and projected growth of only 1.2% by 2025, resulting in a projected deficit of 2,576 rheumatologists considering the estimated need. According to the 2015 Workforce Study, between 2005 and 2015, the percentage of internal medicine residents entering rheumatology has remained…