
IM Journal Club
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<p>Journal-Clubbing Our Way Through Internal Medicine</p><br><p>Do you also find it hard to follow the medical literature?</p><p>Newsletters with tables of contents are hard to get through after having written all your notes and maybe having done a chart dissection.</p><br><p>Welcome to IM Journal Club!</p><p>Our mission: to guide you through some of the most interesting internal medicine studies published in the last few weeks and months that you WOULD have liked to or SHOULD have heard about</p><br><p>Target groups: physicians and other clinicians in general internal or family medicine – hospital medicine and primary care – or in an internal medicine subspecialty; biostatisticians, epidemiologists, or data scientists; journal club enthusiasts!</p><br><p>Hidden agenda: to shed some lights on the studies’ methods AND on the context (what was known before, how do the new results change things – so what does this all mean?). We will give you episodes with primers on particularly difficult methods.</p><br><p>We will come out with a new episode every one to two weeks - we'll upload early on Fridays - so you can listen on your commute or on the weekend.</p><br><p>Please subscribe in your favorite podcast app or to our YouTube channel .</p><br><p>Please let us know what we can do better, or what new study we could cover: You can leave a review in your podcasting app, a comment on YouTube, or drop us a line at hello@imjournalclub.com</p><br><p>We are also on social; our email newsletter will be on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IMJournalClub</p><br><p>---</p><p>Show Credits</p><p>Host: Ben Geisler</p><p>Video editor: Fernando Tábora</p><p>Methods consultant: Professor Ulrich Mansmann</p><p>Advisory group (current): Bijay Acharya, Chang-Berm Kang, Jeffrey L. Greenwald, Jonathan W. Heflin, Kathy May Tran, Marcel Müller, Rahul Ganatra, and Warren Chuang</p><p>Supported by LMU Munich’s Institute for Epidemiology, Biometry, and Medical Information Processing</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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December 23, 2022
Doxycycline for Community Acquired Pneumonia w/ Dr. Brad Spellberg
<p>Doxycycline is an old tetracycline-like antibiotic with a comparatively good side-effect profile, but it doesn’t get much love in the guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia as the evidence level was deemed to be low. A recent issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases contained a systematic review with a meta-analysis.</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/BradSpellberg" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dr. Brad Spellberg</a> is the chief medical office at the Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center. Dr. Spellberg is also a professor of clinical medicine and the associate dean for clinical affairs at the USC’s Keck School of Medicine.</p><p> </p><p>I talk with him about why doxy might be a good CAP drug (and when it is not a good choice), guidelines and the process of creating guidelines, and resistance patterns, MICs, and clinical significance.</p><p> </p><p>References:</p><p>-Shorter Is Better: <a href="https://www.bradspellberg.com/shorter-is-better" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bradspellberg.com/shorter-is-better</a> </p><p>-Oral Is the New IV: <a href="https://www.bradspellberg.com/oral-antibiotics" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bradspellberg.com/oral-antibiotics</a> </p><p>-WikiGuidelines: <a href="https://www.wikiguidelines.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.wikiguidelines.com/</a> </p><p>-SH Choi et al.: Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Jul 29;ciac615. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35903011/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35903011/</a></p><p>-NICE: Pneumonia (community-acquired): antimicrobial prescribing. Published: 16 September 2019. <a href="https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng138" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng138</a></p><p>-JP Metlay et al. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2019 Oct 1;200(7):e45-e67. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201908-1581ST. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31573350/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31573350/</a></p><p> </p><p>YouTube channel: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@IMJournalClub" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@IMJournalClub</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

December 16, 2022
Colonoscopy For Colorectal Cancer Screening: NordICC w/ Dr. Michael Bretthauer
<p>The NordICC Study is the first randomized controlled trial to test colonoscopy as a screening modality for colorectal cancer. The effect of colonoscopy was lower than previously thought. </p><p>We talk with the P.I., Dr. Michael Bretthauer, what to make of the study and whether (and in which areas) we should remain doubtful. Dr. Bretthauer is a professor of medicine at the University of Oslo.</p><p> </p><p>References:</p><ul><li>M Bretthauer et al. N Engl J Med. 2022 Oct 27;387(17):1547-1556. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36214590/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36214590/</a></li><li>RL Siegel et al. CA Cancer J Clin. 2022;72:7-33. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35020204/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35020204/</a></li><li>Ø Holme et al. Ann Intern Med. 2018;168:775-82. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29710125/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29710125/</a></li><li>Global Cancer Observatory, <a href="https://gco.iarc.fr/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gco.iarc.fr/</a></li><li>M Bretthauer et al. Ann Int Med. 2017;166:139-40. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27820949/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27820949/</a></li><li>USPSTF: JAMA. 2021;325(19):1965-77 <a href="https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2779985" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2779985</a></li><li>E Quintero et al. N Engl J Med. 2012;366:697-706 <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22356323/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22356323/</a></li><li>AB Knudsen et al. JAMA. 2021;325(19):1998-2011 <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34003219/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34003219/</a></li><li>Ex. calculator: <a href="https://ccrisktool.cancer.gov/calculator.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://ccrisktool.cancer.gov/calculator.html</a></li><li>LM Helsingen et al. BMJ. 2019367:l5515. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31578196/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31578196/</a></li></ul><p> </p><p>YouTube: <a href="https://youtu.be/mTxKbbcx9BY" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/mTxKbbcx9BY</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

December 2, 2022
Some ideas for the next episodes
<p>Here's our ideas, please cast your vote: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@IMJournalClub/community" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@IMJournalClub/community</a> </p><br><p>While you're on the channel page, please also subscribe: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@IMJournalClub?sub_confirmation=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@IMJournalClub?sub_confirmation=1</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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- What is IM Journal Club?
<p>Journal-Clubbing Our Way Through Internal Medicine</p><br><p>Do you also find it hard to follow the medical literature?</p><p>Newsletters with tables of contents are hard to get through after having written all your notes and maybe having done a chart dissection.</p><br><p>Welcome to IM Journal Club!</p><p>Our mission: to guide you through some of the most interesting internal medicine studies published in the last few weeks and months that you WOULD have liked to or SHOULD have heard about</p><br><p>Target groups: physicians and other clinicians in general internal or family medicine – hospital medicine and primary care – or in an internal medicine subspecialty; biostatisticians, epidemiologists, or data scientists; journal club enthusiasts!</p><br><p>Hidden agenda: to shed some lights on the studies’ methods AND on the context (what was known before, how do the new results change things – so what does this all mean?). We will give you episodes with primers on particularly difficult methods.</p><br><p>We will come out with a new episode every one to two weeks - we'll upload early on Fridays - so you can listen on your commute or on the weekend.</p><br><p>Please subscribe in your favorite podcast app or to our YouTube channel .</p><br><p>Please let us know what we can do better, or what new study we could cover: You can leave a review in your podcasting app, a comment on YouTube, or drop us a line at hello@imjournalclub.com</p><br><p>We are also on social; our email newsletter will be on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IMJournalClub</p><br><p>---</p><p>Show Credits</p><p>Host: Ben Geisler</p><p>Video editor: Fernando Tábora</p><p>Methods consultant: Professor Ulrich Mansmann</p><p>Advisory group (current): Bijay Acharya, Chang-Berm Kang, Jeffrey L. Greenwald, Jonathan W. Heflin, Kathy May Tran, Marcel Müller, Rahul Ganatra, and Warren Chuang</p><p>Supported by LMU Munich’s Institute for Epidemiology, Biometry, and Medical Information Processing</p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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- Does this podcast accept guests?
Yes, this podcast regularly features guests.
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