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MPR Podcast: Infectious Diseases Physician Dr Joshua Barocas Talks About COVID-19 Variants and Vaccines

Publish Date April 9, 2021

The United States Test Against COVID-19

Publish Date May 6, 2020

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Derm DX

DermDx: Raised Solitary Growth on Cheek

A 27-year-old woman presents for removal of a growth on her right cheek that has been gradually increasing in size.

Ortho Dx

OrthoDx: Proximal Phalanx Fracture

A 22-year-old man presents with right-hand pain after a crush injury to his fifth finger while installing a dock at his lakefront property. What is the optimal treatment?

Derm DX

DermDx: Extensive Red Rash on Torso

A 45-year-old man is referred for evaluation of a rash that began approximately 2 months earlier.

Ortho Dx

OrthoDx: Snapping Hip in Adolescent

A 13-year-old adolescent presents with “pain and a snapping feeling” in her right hip when running. What is the best treatment option?

Derm DX

DermDx: Red Growth on Chest

The 81-year-old woman presents for evaluation of a relatively new growth on her upper chest.

Ortho Dx

OrthoDx: Ankle Fracture in Young Woman

A 31-year-old woman presents with left ankle pain following a fall on ice 2 days ago. What is the most likely diagnosis?

Derm DX

DermDx: Hair Loss in Young Woman

A 21-year-old college student presents with concerns about hair loss that has worsened over the past 6 months.

Ortho Dx

OrthoDx: Osteochondroma

A 19-year-old man presents with left thigh pain and a mass that he reports has been present for the past 2 years. What is the best treatment option?

Slides

Derm Dx: Mouth rash and painful skin blisters

A Hispanic man, aged 60 years, complains of 12 months of painful blisters and erosions on his mouth and skin. He was treated in Mexico with oral prednisone, but the eruption returned on cessation of the medication. He was recently restarted on prednisone 50 mg daily. The sores make it difficult to eat. No other…

Derm DX

DermDx: Nodules on Fingers

A 40-year-old woman presents with multiple red-brown and violaceous nodules along the extensor surface of the fingers that have recurred over the past 3 years.

Global Health Rounds

Canadian physician assistants: A new profession with new educational insight

Canada’s educational training programs are some of the most innovative in the world and use techniques that promote the skills that future clinicians need.

Clinical officers improve health care in Kenya

Clinical officers outnumber physicians working in Kenya, and tend to work in rural areas where the need for health care is greatest.

Starting a physician assistant program in Liberia

Steve Trexler, an American PA with over 30 years of experience, discusses the development of a physician assistant program in Liberia.