Building Climate Change into Medical Education: A Society of General Internal Medicine Position Statement.

Building expertise in climate and planetary health among healthcare professionals cannot come with greater urgency as the threats from climate change become increasingly apparent. Current and future healthcare professionals-particularly internists-will increasingly need to understand the interconnectedness of natural systems and human health to better serve their patients longitudinally. Despite this, few national medical societies and accreditation bodies espouse frameworks for climate change and planetary health-related education at the undergraduate (UME), graduate (GME), and continuing (CME) medical education level.

Patient communication during handovers between emergency medicine and internal medicine residents.

Background: Communication failures are a key cause of medical errors and are particularly prevalent during handovers of patients between services.

Objective: To explore current perceptions of effectiveness in communicating critical patient information during admission handovers between emergency medicine (EM) residents and internal medicine (IM) residents.

Methods: Study design was a survey of IM and EM residents at a large urban hospital.

Vitamin D insufficiency in diabetic retinopathy.

Objective: To assess the relationship between vitamin D status and diabetic retinopathy.

Methods: A clinic-based, cross-sectional study was conducted at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Overall, 221 patients were classified into 5 groups based on diabetes status and retinopathy findings: no diabetes or ocular disease (n = 47), no diabetes with ocular disease (n = 51), diabetes with no background diabetic retinopathy (n = 41), nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (n = 40), and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) (n = 42).