ID Board Review/General Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Surgery
While the "General Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and Surgery" section that makes up nearly 1/5th of the ABIM ID Certification exam[1] sounds fairly vague on first glance, it is actually more specific upon closer inspection. For example, most of the general medicine topics are dedicated to infectious disease mimics. Additionally, the Surgical and Critical Care Medicine (CCM) portions are fairly situational, with specific scenarios e.g. a neurosurgery patient who develops meningitis symptoms after a craniotomy, or an ICU patient who was resuscitated after nearly drowning.
General Internal Medicine
[edit | edit source]Infectious Disease Mimics
[edit | edit source]- Drug Fever
- Malignancies
- Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (Hemophagocytic syndrome)
- Noninfectious Inflammatory Disorders
- Vasculitis
- Lupus
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease
- Dermatologic disorders
- Hematologic disorders
- Noninfectious Central Nervous System Disease
- Bites, Stings, and Toxins
Critical Care Medicine (CCM)
[edit | edit source]- Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia
- Bacterial Pneumonia
- Viral Pneumonia
- Noninfectious Pneumonias
- Hyperthermia and Hypothermia
- Near-drowning: Scedosporium apiospermum and Pseudallescheria Boydii Infections
Surgical Infections
[edit | edit source]- Orthopedic Surgical Infections
- Neurosurgery Surgical Infections
- Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgical Infections
- General Surgery and Intra-abdominal Surgical Infections
- Thoracic and Cardiothoracic Surgical Infections
- Urologic Surgical Infections
- Obstetric and Gynecologic Surgical Infections
- Plastic and Reconstructive Surgical Infections
- Vascular Surgical Infections