MSI Schedule

MLC I : Case Studies for Integration of Basic and Clinical Science (2006-2007)

Case readings in BLUE, supplemental articles in ORANGE

Aug 30 Back to the Basics [NEJM 341(10): 747, 1999]
Sept 6 Assignment: Abdominal Pain
  20 Hypothesis Due
  27 Invasive Interventions [NEJM 331(9): 601, 1994]
  11 Assignment: Chest Pain
  18 Hypothesis Due
Nov 1 Some Familiar Trade-Offs [NEJM 331(22): 1511, 1994]
  15 Tumor Hypoxia, the Physiological Link between Trousseau's Syndrome (Carcinoma-induced Coagulopathy) and Metastasis [Cancer Research 61: 795, 2001]; Hypothesis Due
  29 Chest Pain with a Surprising Course [NEJM 341(15): 1134, 1999]
Dec 6  
  13 Hypothesis Due
     
Jan 3 The domino principle [NEJM 335(5): 340, 1996]
  10 Hypothesis Due
  24 Case 5-2004 [NEJM 350(7): 707, 2004]
  31 Mechanisms underlying recovery of motor function after stroke [Postgrad Med 81(958): 510, 2005]; Treatment of Acute Ischemic Stroke [NEJM 343(10): 710, 2000]
Feb 7 Hypothesis Due
  21 A balancing act [NEJM 340(5): 374, 1999]
March 7 Clinical features and prognostic factors in adults with bacterial meningitis [Lancet Neurol 5: 123, 2006]; Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of pneumococcal meningitis [Lancet Infect Dis 2: 721, 2002]; Hypothesis Due
  28 Studying the classics [NEJM 333(10): 648, 1995]
April 11 Assignment: Valvular Heart Disease; Hypothesis Due
  25 The importance of a name [NEJM 340(18): 1418, 1999]
May 2 Reversal of nonalcoholic hepatic steatosis, hepatic insulin resistance, and hyperglycemia by moderate weight reduction in patients with type 2 diabetes [Diabetes 54(3): 603, 2005]
  16  
  23 Hypothesis Due
  29 Make-up case: The appropriate degree of diagnostic certainty [NEJM 331(18): 1216, 1994]

Normal lab values at MGH [NEJM 351(15):1548, 2004]

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