ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity

Strategies for Establishing Clinical-Decision Thresholds in Psychiatry – A Review

Importance  Nearly all psychopathology is inherently continuous, but both clinical practice and research often require categorical decisions (eg, treat or wait, pay for treatment or decline, enroll in study or not); therefore, thresholds are applied to continuous phenomena to guide…

Aberrant Left-to-Right Fusion of the Oculomotor Nerve

This case report describes a 2-year-old girl with congenital ptosis of the left eye, large-angle exotropia, adduction deficit of the left eye, and abduction deficit of the right eye.

A Low-Voltage Electrocardiogram

This case report describes a woman in her 60s who had an inferior wall myocardial infarction 1 year prior and presented to the emergency department with worsening dyspnea and anasarca for the past 2 months.

Optic Disc and Macular Edema in a Previously Healthy Teenager

A 16-year-old female presents to your clinic with 5 weeks of blurry vision in the left eye, headaches, weight loss, fevers, chills, night sweats, fatigue, generalized weakness, dizziness, chest pain, and shortness of breath. What would you do next?

Parry-Romberg Syndrome With Concurrent en Coup de Sabre

This case report describes a young man who presented with a long history of progressive right hemifacial deformity and a streak of scarring alopecia from eyebrow to scalp.

Primary Care as a Public Utility – The Case for a Common Fund

Importance  More than one-third of US adults lack access to primary care, which has increasingly become a commodity rather than the common good envisioned by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Many states are working to bolster primary…

Musical Trick Alleviating Benign Essential Blepharospasm

This case report describes a 61-year-old professional oboist whose symptoms of bilateral essential blepharospasm abated when she played the oboe or sung a musical arrangement.