For Maribeth Morral, a third-year medical student at Penn State College of Medicine in State College, Pa., and ACR Research and Education Foundation (REF) Preceptorship winner, her first exposure to rheumatology was the product of a chance encounter. In the first year of medical school at Penn State, students are assigned to track a chronically ill patient throughout the year as a learning experience. Morral’s patient happened to be an 11-year-old girl diagnosed with juvenile RA.
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Take the Reins
Rheumatologists must guide the quality movement to improve patient care
The Rheumatologist
One of many information resources from ACR
A New Member of the Family
The youngest ACR publication gets a name
Office Visit
A Day in the Life of Cynthia Aranow, MD
Control Quality Anxiety
Rheumatologists positive but cautious about their brushes with the quality movement
Joint by Joint
X-ray expert John Sharp, MD, revolutionized RA tracking with the Sharp score
Make Me A Match
Rheumatology training programs adopt computerized fellowship selection
A Heart In Danger
Rheumatologists should monitor and aggressively treat cardiac risk factors in patients with lupus and rheumatoid arthritis