ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity

Wearable Intraoperative Augmented Reality for Surgery

This Surgical Innovation explores the potential that wearable augmented reality devices have for improving intraoperative imaging, patient outcomes, and surgical workflows.

A Firm Pigmented Plaque on the Forearm of a Child

A 12-year-old boy was referred to the dermatology clinic with a nonprogressive hyperpigmented and indurated plaque on his right forearm for 5 years. What is your diagnosis?

Expectancy Effects, Failure of Blinding Integrity, and Placebo Response in Trials of Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders – A Narrative Review

Importance  Expectancy effects are significant confounding factors in psychiatric randomized clinical trials (RCTs), potentially affecting the interpretation of study results. This narrative review is the first, to our knowledge, to explore the relationship between expectancy effects, compromised blinding integrity, and the…

Bilateral Retinal Detachments in a Previously Healthy 19-Year-Old

A 19-year-old man was referred for evaluation of bilateral retinal detachments. Imaging demonstrated subretinal and intraretinal fluid in the macula of both eyes with no choroidal masses. What would you do next?

Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Sepsis and Septic Shock

This JAMA Insights explores the use of portable point-of-care ultrasound and focused cardiac ultrasound imaging in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with sepsis and septic shock in the emergency department and intensive care unit.

Chronic Myeloid Leukemia – A Review

Importance  Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has an annual incidence of 2 cases per 100 000 people and is newly diagnosed in approximately 9300 individuals per year in the US. Approximately 150 000 people in the US and 5 million worldwide have CML. Observations  Chronic…