ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity

AMA STEPSFORWARD – Ambient AI in Health CareReducing Documentation Burden

Ambient AI is rapidly reshaping how clinicians document care, offering a powerful way to reduce administrative burden without disrupting the patient-physician relationship. In this AMA STEPS ForwardÆ podcast, host Margaret Lozovatsky, MD, FAMIA, is joined by Kristin Jacob, MD, FACP,…

Pitfalls to Procalcitonin—Elevation in a Postvaccine Fever

This case report describes a patient receiving peritoneal dialysis who presented to the emergency department with a fever and elevated procalcitonin levels the day after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine.

Endometrial Cancer – A Review

Importance  Endometrial cancer accounts for 95% of uterine cancers. Uterine cancers are the fourth most common cancer in women in the US, with an estimated 68 270 new cases and 14 450 cancer deaths projected to occur in 2026. The US mortality…

Defining Expanded Episode-Based Surgical Quality Measurement

Importance  Surgical quality assessment has largely focused on addressing risk-adjusted postoperative outcomes, which neglects quality assessment across the entire perioperative surgical continuum. The Veterans Health Administration (VA) has the unique opportunity to employ a surgical episode framework to measure surgical…

Reticulate Purpuric Macules of the Feet After Endovascular Aortic Repair

A man in his 70s with a history of hypertension, dyslipidemia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and aortoiliac occlusive disease was admitted with a symptomatic impending rupture of a thoracic aortic aneurysm, followed by reticulate erythematous to violaceous macules that appeared…