The Intern At Work

Your Canadian internal medicine podcast written by residents for residents and students. By @AlisonLaiMD, @KallirroiLaiya, & @MeraliZahra.

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Happy Monday Twitterverse! If you've checked out our website recently, you'll notice a "Support Our Pod" button, let us explain! Here at the I@W, we are committed to bringing you a high-quality, evidence-based podcast on IM topics meant to serve you better on the wards & on call

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🎙️ NOW LIVE!

Our #CSIM2026 podcast with Dr. Silverstein is out!

🎧 Teaching Wisely: Leveraging Education to Reduce Low-Value Care on General Medical Wards

How can we teach clinicians to deliver higher-value care?

Listen now: https://t.co/nG2pAZ4igt

#MedEd #ChoosingWisely

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🎙️ TOMORROW at #CSIM2026!

Join Medicine Pods for a LIVE podcast with Dr. Silverstein on using medical education to reduce low-value care.

📅 Oct 23
⏰ 7:55–9 AM
📍 Breakfast Plenary

Last chance to send us your questions!👇

@CSIMSCMI @WKSilverstein

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📚 New Cardio Trial Files!

🫀 AFib ablation showed no significant QoL benefit vs. sham
❤️ Tricuspid repair improved HF outcomes
🩺 Physiology-guided PCI reduced CV events in STEMI

🔗 https://t.co/SehBWhOCaw

#Cardiology #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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📚 New IBD Trial Files!

💊 Icotrokinra improved clinical response in moderate-to-severe UC

🩺 Tofacitinib 20 vs. 30 mg showed similar responses in acute severe UC

🔗 https://t.co/A1M46QnCMZ

#IBD #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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Heading to #CSIM2026? Add this to your Friday morning!🎙️

Join Medicine Pods+Dr. Silverstein for a LIVE podcast:

Teaching Wisely: Leveraging Education to Reduce Low-Value Care on General Medical Wards
📅Oct 23 | 7:55–9 AM
Questions? Send them our way 👇

@CSIMSCMI @WKSilverstein

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📚 New Trial Files!

🫀 DOACs improved outcomes in intermediate-risk AFib
💊 Atorvastatin reduced CV events, but not disability, in older adults
🩸 TXA reduced transfusions in major noncardiac surgery

🔗 https://t.co/4lWe2Fsy6v

#MedTwitter #TrialFiles #FOAMed

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📚 New Allergy & Immunology Trial Files Throwback!

💉 Icatibant accelerated symptom relief in HAE
🩺 Omalizumab improved chronic urticaria symptoms
🧴 Tezepelumab showed no significant benefit in atopic dermatitis

🔗 https://t.co/sldsMez4zV

#Allergy #Immunology #MedTwitter

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🎙️ New Intern at Work!

🫁 Trach 102: Tracheostomy Emergencies

🚨 Recognize obstruction & displacement
🩺 Troubleshoot and manage airway emergencies

🎧 https://t.co/yD2Eb161oq

#CriticalCare #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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💭 What would YOU ask about reducing low-value care?

We’re recording a LIVE Medicine Pods podcast with Dr. Silverstein at #CSIM2026, and we want your questions!

Drop yours below 👇 We may ask it during the live recording! 🎙️

📅 Oct 23 | 7:55–9 AM

@WKSilverstein @CSIMSCMI

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📚 New Heme Onc Trial Files!

💊 Indefinite lenalidomide offered no survival benefit vs. 2 years
🧬 Mezigdomide-Kd improved PFS in relapsed MM
🎯 Pirtobrutinib + VenR improved PFS in relapsed CLL

🔗 https://t.co/ZJEDiS31kt

#HemeOnc #MedTwitter

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📚 New Thrombo Trial Files Throwback!

🩸 DOACs were noninferior to LMWH for cancer-associated VTE
💊 Rivaroxaban showed similar efficacy, but noninferiority was unproven
⚖️ SELECT-D: Less VTE, more bleeding with rivaroxaban

🔗 https://t.co/wtBoWJmTrh

#Thrombosis #MedTwitter

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🎙️ Medicine Pods is going LIVE at #CSIM2026!

Join us for a live podcast with Dr. William Silverstein:

Teaching Wisely: Leveraging Education to Reduce Low-Value Care on General Medical Wards

📅 Oct 23 | 7:55–9 AM

Have a question? Drop it below! 👇

@WKSilverstein @CSIMSCMI

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📚New Critical Care Trial Files!

🫁Conservative oxygen offered no benefit after cardiac arrest
💉Sodium bicarbonate did not improve ROSC
🧠Selective brain cooling was safe & feasible in a pilot trial

🔗Read the issue: https://t.co/U10PTb4yRL

#CriticalCare #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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🎙️ New Intern at Work!

🦴 How do you approach osteoarthritis?
🩻 When is imaging actually needed?
💊 From exercise to medications to surgery

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/yD2Eb161oq

#MedTwitter #MedEd #FOAMed

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🎙️ New Intern at Work!

🫘 How do you approach proteinuria?
🔬 Quantify, characterize & build your differential
🩺 Know when further workup or referral is needed

🎧 Listen here: https://t.co/yD2Eb16zdY

#Nephrology #MedTwitter #FOAMed

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📚 New Cardio Trial Files!

❤️ Mavacamten reduced LVOT gradients in adolescent HOCM
💊 Enlicitide lowered LDL-C by 64.6%, outperforming other oral nonstatins
⚖️ Weight loss did not improve AFib symptoms in LOSE-AF

🔗 https://t.co/LBhnop4MMN

#Cardiology #MedTwitter

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#MedEd #MedTwitter

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📚 New IBD Trial Files!

🏠 Proactive home fecal calprotectin monitoring did not prevent UC flares
💉 Anti-TNF withdrawal led to more flares than continued therapy (52% vs. 12%)

🔗 https://t.co/kFEM8xDoZF

#IBD #UlcerativeColitis #MedTwitter

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📚 New Trial Files Throwback!

🫁 5 days of prednisone was enough for COPD exacerbations
💧 Balanced crystalloids reduced adverse kidney events vs saline
🫘 Canagliflozin improved renal outcomes in T2DM + CKD

🔗 https://t.co/5Lrzzmy1y6

#MedTwitter #TrialFiles

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📚 New AllergyImm Trial Files!

🎨 Upadacitinib ↑ repigmentation in vitiligo
💇 Deuruxolitinib ↑ hair regrowth in alopecia areata
🧴 Lebrikizumab was effective in atopic dermatitis regardless of atopic comorbidities

🔗 https://t.co/ljOD3ZJwY9

#Allergy #Immunology #MedTwitter