Normal red blood cell physiology
Hematopoietic sessions
Axial spondyloarthritis
Optional resources The Intern at Work, #205: Beware of PEAR—An Approach to Seronegative Spondyloarthritides Estimated time: 14 min. In this podcast, the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, associated diseases, investigations and treatment for the seronegative spondyloarthritides are reviewed. These include psoriatic arthritis, enteropathic or IBD-associated arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and reactive arthritis—or PEAR! American College of Rheumatology (ACR) Rheum2Learn […]
Case study: Anxiety disorders
Instructions Familiarize yourself by reading all the cases to prepare for your class session. During class, students will be asked to review a case and collaborate with each other at their table. The table group will team up and work through one of the cases below and process through several steps of reviewing and organizing […]
Case studies
Practice page: Trinity
D.P. assistant onboarding (Trinity)
Log in to WordPress/Elementor Log in: Go to https://learning.medicine.wsu.edu/wp-admin/ and log in via SSO as usual. This will take you to the full dashboard and give you the black WordPress bar across the top. (I will give you a tour of this next week, but you shouldn’t need it much.) The easiest next step is […]
Hepatitis (High-yield)
Parasitology 2: GI helminths (High-yield)
Infectious diseases that target red blood cells (High-yield)
Plasmodium (protozoa that causes malaria) Transmitted by female Anopheles mosquito. Lifecycle includes liver (exoerythrocytic) and blood (erythrocytic) stages. Vivax and P. ovale form dormant hypnozoites in liver—cause relapses. Falciparum infects all RBC stages—highest parasitemia and severity. Symptoms (fever, chills) correlate with RBC rupture during schizont release. Diagnosis of malaria Thick smear: Screening and parasite […]