Hip and knee replacements—despite advancement in treatments for rheumatic diseases, some patients will still need to undergo these surgeries. Here are insights into the considerations, costs and complications of total joint arthroplasty.
How to Help Patients with Chronic Pain
Pain is more than nociception, and pain management is more than medication. Delia Chiaramonte, MD, provided insights into how rheumatologists can help their patients ease and manage chronic pain.
Challenging Cases in Osteoporosis: Tips from an Expert
Using three complicated patient cases, Kenneth G. Saag, MD, MSc, shared his expertise on osteoporosis and walked through his thought process and the literature, during a session of the 2022 ACR Education Exchange.
Without Fear: Psychological Safety for Learners & Patients
Constructing a safe space for reporting errors is important & enables medical trainees to grow, making them better learners and scholars, and faculty members and patients to express their concerns. During a session at the 2022 ACR Education Exchange, Karina Torralba, MD, MACM, RhMSUS, provided insights into how to manage the barriers to fostering such a workplace culture.
A Primer on Copay Accumulator Programs
The growing use of copay accumulator programs, which restrict the application of patient assistance funds toward cost-sharing requirements, hurts patient access to life-changing treatments. This was one topic discussed during the ACR’s Advocacy Leadership Conference in D.C. this May.
Transformational Teaching: How to Be a Highly Effective Medical Educator
Jonathan Hausmann, MD, discussed how active learning techniques, such as the flipped classroom, can increase the effectiveness of medical education and the success of rheumatology fellows.
Updates from the ACR’s Committee on Rheumatology Training & Workforce Issues
The ACR’s Committee on Rheumatology Training & Workforce Issues helps young rheumatologists to become successful and find meaning in their work. Here is an update on the committee’s most recent accomplishments.
Pearls of Wisdom: Innovations in Teaching Shared at the 2022 ACR Education Exchange
Experts presented ways to rethink journal club to improve engagement and how an image-based program can help teach the assessment of cutaneous lupus erythematosus across differing skin tones.
Rheum After 5: Dr. Jennifer May De-Stresses By Playing in an Orchestra
Jennifer May, MD, a rheumatologist with Rapid City Medical Center, South Dakota, completed her undergraduate degree at Augustana University, Sioux Falls, S.D., and earned her medical degree at the University of South Dakota School of Medicine, Vermillion. She was in the fourth grade when she first began playing the viola. Although she came to love…
Summer 2022’s Awards, Appointments & Announcements in Rheumatology
Medal for Excellence Awarded to Graciela Alarcón, MD Graciela (Chela) S. Alarcón, MD, MPH, is the emeritus Jane Knight Lowe Chair of Medicine in Rheumatology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and a professor of medicine (emeritus) at Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia (UPCH), Lima, Perú, her alma mater. Last fall, she received the…
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