Internal Medicine — Old Core Academic Day Lectures (Until Sep 2023)
Diagnostic tests in rheumatic disease: what’s old, what’s new, what’s useful?
Teaching
Competencies covered in this activity
| 1. Practise medicine within their defined scope of practice and expertise | ||||||
| 1.4. Apply knowledge of the following systems, clinical scenarios, conditions, diseases and therapies applicable to Internal Medicine, including the manifestations, investigation, and management | ||||||
| 1.4.9. Musculoskeletal | ||||||
| 1.4.9.1. Symptoms | ||||||
| 1.4.9.1.1. Back pain | ||||||
| 1.4.9.1.2. Muscular pain | ||||||
| 1.4.9.1.3. Proximal muscle weakness | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2. Disorders | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.1. Acute monoarthritis | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.2. Acute and chronic polyarthritis | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.3. Ankylosing spondylitis | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.4. Fibromyalgia | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.5. Gout and pseudogout | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.6. Osteoarthritis | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.7. Osteomyelitis | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.8. Paget’s disease of bone | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.9. Raynaud’s phenomenon | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.10. Rheumatoid arthritis | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.11. Scleroderma | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.12. Septic arthritis | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.13. Sero-negative arthropathies | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.14. Sjögren’s syndrome | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.15. Systemic lupus erythematosis | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.16. Temporal arteritis and polymyalgia rheumatica | ||||||
| 1.4.9.2.17. Primary and secondary bone and soft tissue neoplasms | ||||||
| 2. Perform a patient-centred clinical assessment and establish a management plan | ||||||
| 2.2. Elicit a history, perform a physical exam, select appropriate investigations, and interpret their results for the purpose of diagnosis and management, disease prevention, and health promotion | ||||||
| 2.2.1. Elicit information relevant to the risk profile for disease | ||||||
| 2.2.2. Assess risk factors for disease progression, as well as a patient’s need for health promotion and/or health surveillance | ||||||
| 2.2.3. Obtain relevant information from the family history | ||||||
| 2.2.4. Elicit an accurate occupational history, as appropriate, with documentation of the patient’s exposure to occupational health hazards, safety risks, and job demands | ||||||
| 2.2.5. Perform a complete and appropriate assessment of complex medical presentations, including consideration of competing treatment needs | ||||||
| 2.2.6. Assess the patient’s capacity to make decisions about his/her medical care | ||||||
| 2.2.7. Perform a functional assessment of basic and instrumental activities of daily living, mental status examination, and assessment of gait and balance | ||||||
| 2.2.8. Perform a quantitative measure of performance status for patients with malignancy | ||||||
| 2.2.9. Select investigation strategies, demonstrating awareness of the availability and access to resources in various clinical settings | ||||||
| 2.2.10. Apply criteria for use of diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine examinations, including their risks and contraindications | ||||||
| 2.2.11. Interpret cardio-pulmonary diagnostic testing, including electrocardiograms, and related reports | ||||||
| 2.2.12. Interpret reports of medical imaging and pathology in the context of the patient | ||||||
| 2.2.13. Integrate, synthesize and summarize information gathered through the clinical assessment and investigations | ||||||