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College News
ACP seeks workshop topics, and chapter awardees are honored.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/04/twentyeight.htm
1 Apr 2008
ACP Highlights: What's new in other College publications
Senators Clinton's and Obama's split over mandating coverage distinguishes them from one another, but does that difference matter?.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/06/seven.htm
1 Jun 2008
Mandate puts e-prescribing on front burner
A digest of this month's issue, including the mandate that puts e-prescribing on front burner.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/09/editor.htm
1 Sep 2008
Influenza featured at infectious disease meeting
A summary of approvals, recalls, warnings and alerts digested by ACP Internist from the Food and Drug Administration's alerts.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/01/idsa.htm
1 Jan 2010
Internship reflects how patient care guides medical education
Our columnist reflects on his just-completed intern year.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/07/residents.htm
1 Jul 2013
What peers are made of and why it matters to medical education
A resident reflects on the importance of his peers to the learning process##mdash;guiding, helping and supporting one another.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2013/01/residents.htm
1 Jan 2013
Letters to the Editor
Readers react to the generation gap in internal medicine, and other issues.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/06/five.htm
1 Jun 2008
High-value care a focus at Hospital Medicine 2017
Hospital Medicine 2017 featured advice on providing high-value care, from how to talk about the concept with patients to which tests and screens to give and which drugs to stop.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2017/07/high-value-care-a-focus-at-hospital-medicine-2017.htm
1 Jul 2017
ACP's ‘Mission: Not Impossible’
Changes to the Maintenance of Certification process advocated by College leadership are the beginning of meaningful reform of the process, not the end.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/04/presidents.htm
1 Apr 2015
Missed diagnoses and drug errors make up bulk of primary care malpractice claims
Missed or delayed diagnoses, particularly of cancer and myocardial infarction in adults and meningitis in children, were the most common cause of malpractice claims brought against doctors in primary care, a British meta-analysis of studies performed in different countries found, while medication errors were the second most common reason for claims.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2013/07/23/1.htm
23 Jul 2013