Welcome to the DGIM Clinician Corner where we are posting quicklink resources for our clinicians and educators.
Last update: August 25, 2019 (*new - Practice Changing Updates, Practice Guidelines, and Special Topics)
Click a topic below:
Practice Changing Updates
Practice Guidelines
Special Topics
Educator Tips
Popular Mobile Apps
Continuing Medical Education (CME)
Practice Changing Updates
Check back for new additions!
- * USPSTF Recommendation on BRCA Testing
- Screening of US health care workers for latent tuberculosis infection
- A Practical Approach to Low-Dose Aspirin for Primary Prevention
- Aspirin for primary prevention for cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Diagnosis and treatment of C difficile infection
- Cervical cancer screening
- Updated guidelines released on antithrombotic therapy for afib
- Dabigatran recommended for for patients with myocardial injury after non-cardiac surgery
- Vaccination to prevent herpes zoster
- Time window for mechanical thrombectomy after acute ischemic stroke
- New acute ischemic stroke guidelines
- Adult immunization schedule 2/2018 (ACIP)
- Comparison of 21 antidepressant drugs
Practice Guidelines
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Screening for Depression in Adults - US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
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Screening for Colorectal Cancer - US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
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Statin Use for the Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease in Adults - US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement
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Physical Activity Guidelines (U.S. Health and Human Services)
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NIH-NIDDK releases 3rd edition of "Diabetes in America"
- Preventive Care Recommendations (UpToDate)
- Clinical Guidelines and Recommendations (ACP)
- Guidelines and Clinical Documents (ACC)
- Clinical Tools Compendium from the Duke Medical Center Library where your will find evidence based sources, drug information, PubMed and other databases. New! Easy access to resources from off-campus via Duke Medical Center Library.
Special Topics
- * The Rational Clinical Exam, JAMA evidence-based medicine series edited by DGIM academician, Dr. David Simel
- Care of the Transgender Patient
- Duke Center for Smoking Cessation
- Palliative Care VitalTalk - communication tools for serious illnesses
- CKD management in primary care
- Duke CustomID, for Duke-specific antimicrobial guidance, co-developed by DGIM clinician, Dr. Martha Adams
- Are you a provider in Duke Primary Care? Click here for the DPC intranet repository of special clinical presentations.
- Clinical Tools resources, Duke Medical Center Library
Educator Tips
- Teaching Observation
- Advanced Strategies for Peer Feedback
- 12 Tips for Peer Observation of Teaching (Z. S. Siddiqui et al.)
Popular Mobile Apps
- ASCVD Suite - risk calculator
- Clinical Pharmacology - drug resource
- Epocrates - drug & drug Interactions
- GoodRx - drug prices
- Lexicomp - clinical drug information
- MedCalX - medical calculator
- Micromedex - drug info and mechanisms
- UpToDate - mobile version of this medical wikipedia
Sources for Continuing Medical Education (CME) 
- Duke Medicine Grand Rounds
- Incorporating MKSAP into your everyday work life & teaching
- CME offered by Duke Primary Care for their members (view in weekly DGIM eNews)
- SYNERGY Population Health Seminar Series
- Other CME programs developed by specialists within the medical center occur throughout the year. Details are available here: Duke Office of Continuing Medical Education.
- CME opportunities beyond Duke:
- JN Listen and JAMA TIME
- Earning CME credit with UpToDate
- From Annals of Internal Medicine
- Twitter Chat sponsored by the Society of Hospital Medicine #JHMChat
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