The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast is a popular medical education series focused on internal medicine topics. Hosted by a team of clinician educators, the podcast delivers expert interviews and discussions covering a broad range of clinical conditions, diagnostic approaches, and management strategies.
The show emphasises evidence-based medicine and practical insights, aiming to support learners at all levels—from students to practising internists—in building clinical reasoning and improving patient care.
Heart-failure pleural effusions do not automatically need a tap when decongestion is working. The conference recap also sharpens first-pass acute liver injury tests, antibiotic step-down and inpatient medication decisions that often get prolonged by habit.
Trial headlines can push anticoagulation decisions too far. This Hotcakes review is worth opening for atrial fibrillation and VTE decisions, especially when non-inferiority margins, crossover or composite outcomes might make treatments look more alike than they are.
Retirement, near falls and memory concerns are handled as functional problems, not background ageing. Open this for clear advice on exercise prescription, Tai Chi, protein intake, social connection and goals that matter to the older adult sitting in front of you.
Leakage, urgency, constipation, dyspareunia, and chronic pelvic pain are treated here as real pelvic floor symptoms rather than background noise. The practical gain is learning when Kegels are the wrong first step, and how bladder diaries, down-training, and vaginal oestrogen fit selected cases.
The clue is that a glucose peak is less useful than what happens two to three hours later. This is worth opening if CGM data, ApoB, sleep and training advice are starting to crowd judgement, because it brings cardiometabolic prevention back to mechanism and priorities.
The clue is the incidental adrenal mass that looks benign enough to ignore. This episode earns its place because it makes the work-up concrete: malignancy risk on imaging, cortisol screening for everyone, and shared decisions about adrenalectomy without forgetting postoperative adrenal insufficiency.
A low short-term cardiovascular risk score can under call risk in younger adults. ApoB, lipoprotein(a), metabolic syndrome features, and coronary artery calcium refine prevention decisions, and any positive calcium score in a younger patient should be treated as a meaningful red flag.
Eating-disorder assessment is clinical, not questionnaire-led. Three-minute orthostatic observations, ECG, and electrolytes help expose medical instability, while weight-loss prescribing with GLP-1 agents can be unsafe in underweight or actively restrictive illness unless specialist psychological and dietetic support is built in.
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