L. James Nixon

TL;DR: The authors seek to integrate generally accepted knowledge and beliefs about how one learns to practice clinical medicine into a coherent developmental framework using the Dreysfus and Dreyfus model of skill acquisition.

TL;DR: It is suggested that internal medicine residents use UpToDate most frequently, followed by consultation with faculty and the search engines Google and Google Scholar; speed, trust, and portability are the biggest drivers for resource selection; and time and information overload appear to be the biggest barriers to resources such as Ovid MEDLINE.

TL;DR: The authors describe the process by which an Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine task force developed a paradigm for competency-based assessment of students during their inpatient internal medicine (IM) clerkship, and offers a standardized template that may be used across IM clerkships.

TL;DR: The ability to achieve broad use of virtual patients, and to transition the programs from successfully relying on grant funding to financially self-sustaining, resulted directly from the collaborative development and maintenance process.

TL;DR: Performing point-of-care ultrasonography in addition to the traditional physical examination improves the sensitivity and specificity for diagnosing splenomegaly.