HMC IMC Residents

Orientation

• Welcome & Background
• Learning Goals & Expectations
• Communications: Accessing Schedule & Dictation
• Pharmacy Services
• Nutrition Services
• Working with Interpreters
• Time Saving Tips
• Keeping Track of Patients Between Visits
• Clinic Call Guidelines
• Checklist for Going on Vacation or Leave
• Introduction to EthnoMed
• EthnoMed

UW Residency

• Clinical Resources
• HMC Primary Care Clinics
• UW Housestaff Association
• GIM Pagers, Email
• Medical Residency Program

Curriculum

• Blog: HMC International Med Clinic
• Pre-clinic Conference Schedule
• Pre-Clinic Conference Presentations

• Supplemental Readings
  Notebook with reprints on recurrent topics is shelved in the IMC Provider room

• Musculoskeletal Exam

Clinical Resources

• CDC Parasitic Diseases
• Multimedia Procedure Manual
  Includes arthrocentesis
• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  Complete summaries available for PDAs using Palm OS
• Health Advisories: King Co. Public Health
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
  Search for "screening"

• CDC ACIP
• CDC Adult Immunization
  MMWR (February 4, 2011 / QuickGuide: 60(04))

Journals

• New England Journal of Medicine
  -NEJM Global Health Collection-
• JAMA
  -JAMA World Health Collection-
• Annals of Internal Medicine
• Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America June 1997-
  (University of Chicago)
• MMWR
• Lancet (ScienceDirect)

Global Medicine

• Geosentinel
• UW Dept. Global Health
• Global Health (HealthLinks page)

• Travax
  Restricted to IMC providers.
• CDC Travelers' Health
• Local immunization sites &travel clinics (Seattle)
  Tiffany Erickson, Jan. 2009. Cost information may be out-of-date.

• DSHS Programs & Services for Refugees (WA)
  July 2007
• Completing the N-648 Form for USCIS (EthnoMed)
• U. S. Citizenship & Immigration Service (USCIS)
  Previously INS. Includes Naturalization Resources.
• CDC Immigrant & Refugee Health
  • Guidelines for the History & Physical (pdf)

Pharmacy

• Micromedex 2.0
• UW Medicine Drug Formulary
  Also links to other Washington state health plan formularies
• Natural Standard
  Provides evidence-based information on dietary supplements, functional foods, diets, and complementary modalities.
• UW AMC Request to add drug to formulary
  Tiffany Erickson, Jan. 2009.
• IMC patient refill policy flyer
  Tiffany Erickson, Jan. 2009.

Databases

• Google Scholar
• PubMed
• UpToDate