Consultative & Hospital Medicine Program

MCS Syllabus

Welcome to the HMC Medicine Consult Service Syllabus website.  Here you will find a number of updated yet brief reviews of topics relevant to the practice of general medical consultation.  The brief reviews have been assembled by members of the Harborview Hospital Medicine Program Team.  Beneath some links to reviews we have included links to journal articles (reviews and original works) that we have found most informative in our medical decisions.

For questions and comments please contact Rachel Thompson, MD or Hanny Tan, MD.

Syllabus Topics

I.  Consultative Medicine

     A. Ten Commandments
           Key Article:  Goldman L et al. 1983. Arch Int Med. 143:1753-5.

     B.  Professionalism

     C.  Issues in Comanagement

II.  Preoperative Evaluation

     A.  General Approach

     B.  Understanding anesthesia

     C.  Risk Assessment
           1.  Coronary Risk
           2.  Pulmonary Risk
           3.  Patients with Cirrhosis/Liver Disease
           4.  Patients with Hypertension
           5.  The Elderly

     D.  Specific Interventions and Recommendations
           1.  Preoperative Medical Therapy of the Cardiac Patient
           2.  Endocarditis Prophylaxis
                 Key Article:  Dajani AS et al. 1997. JAMA. 277:1794.
           3.  Anticoagulation Guidelines
           4.  Glycemic Control

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