Internal Medicine Clerkship
Internal Medicine
Clerkship
The Learning Objectives and Curricular Elements for Prevention & Screening in Internal Medicine
Click below to access each section of the curriculum.
Internal Medicine
Curricular Elements:
Objectives
Case I
Case II
Case III
Adult Vaccination
Cancer Screening
Diabetes Screening
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Clerkship Self Assessment Test
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Below you may access and review the screening
recommendations
of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for the
conditions as listed alphabetically.
Click here for student work page
and personal pocket guide to screening recommendations
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U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendations
A
Abdominal Aortic
Aneurysm:
Screening
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B
Bacterial
Vaginosis in Pregnancy:
Screening (2001)
Bacteriuria:
Screening (2004)
Bladder Cancer:
Screening (2004)
Blood Pressure:
Screening (2003)
Breast Cancer:
Screening (2002) /
Preventive Medication (2002)
Breastfeeding:
Counseling (2003)
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C
Carotid Artery
Stenosis:
Screening (1996)
Cervical Cancer:
Screening (2003)
Chlamydial Infection:
Screening (2001)
Colorectal Cancer:
Screening (2002)
Coronary Heart Disease:
Screening (2004)
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D
Dementia:
Screening (2003)
Dental Caries in Preschool Children:
Screening (2004)
Depression:
Screening (2002)
Diabetes Mellitus:
Screening (2003)
Diet:
Counseling (2003)
Down Syndrome:
Screening (1996)
Drug Abuse:
Screening (1996)
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F
Family Violence:
Screening (2004)
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G
Gestational
Diabetes:
Screening (2003)
Glaucoma:
Screening (2005)
Gonorrhea:
Screening (2005)
Gynecologic Cancers:
Counseling (1996)
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H
Hearing
Impairment:
Screening (1996)
Hearing, Newborn:
Screening (2001)
Hemoglobinopathies:
Screening (1996)
Hepatitis B Virus Infection:
Screening (2004)
Hepatitis C Virus Infection:
Screening (2004)
Herpes Simplex, Genital:
Screening (2005)
Home Uterine Activity Monitoring:
Screening (1996)
Hormone Replacement Therapy:
Preventive Medication (2005)
Household and Recreational Injuries:
Counseling (1996)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection:
Screening (2005) /
Counseling (1996)
Hypothyroidism, Congenital:
Screening(1996)
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I
Idiopathic
Scoliosis in Adolescents:
Screening (2004)
Immunizations, Adult:
Immunizations (1996)
Immunizations, Childhood:
Immunizations (1996)
Intrapartum Electronic Fetal Monitoring:
Screening (1996)
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L
Lead Levels in
Childhood and Pregnancy:
Screening (1996)
Lipid Disorders:
Screening (2001)
Lung Cancer:
Screening (2004)
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M
Motor Vehicle
Injuries:
Counseling (1996)
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N
Neural Tube
Defects:
Screening (1996)
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O
Obesity in
Adults:
Screening (2003) / Counseling (1996)
Oral Cancer:
Screening (2004)
Osteoporosis:
Screening (2002)
Overweight in Children and Adolescents:
Screening (2005)
Ovarian Cancer:
Screening (2004)
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P
Pancreatic
Cancer:
Screening (2004)
Peripheral Arterial Disease:
Screening (2005)
Phenylketonuria:
Screening (1996)
Physical Activity:
Counseling (2002)
Postexposure Prophylaxis for Selected Infectious Diseases:
Preventive Medication (1996)
Preeclampsia:
Screening (1996)
Prostate Cancer:
Screening (2002)
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R
Rh
Incompatibility:
Screening (2004)
Rubella:
Screening (1996)
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S
Skin Cancer:
Screening (2001) /
Counseling (2003)
Suicide Risk:
Screening (2004) / Counseling (1996)
Syphilis:
Screening (2004)
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T
Testicular
Cancer:
Screening (2004)
Thyroid Disease:
Screening (2004)
Thyroid Cancer:
Screening (1996)
Tobacco Use:
Counseling (2003)
Tuberculous Infection:
Screening (1996)
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U
Ultrasonography
in Pregnancy:
Screening (1996)
Unintended Pregnancy:
Counseling (1996)
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V
Visual
Impairment:
Screening (1996)
Visual Impairment in Children Ages 0-5:
Screening (2004)
Vitamin Supplementation to Prevent Cancer and Coronary Heart
Disease:
Counseling (2003)
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Y
Youth Violence:
Counseling (1996)
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USPSTF Recommendation Levels:
A.— The USPSTF strongly recommends that clinicians provide [the service] to eligible patients. The USPSTF found good evidence that [the service] improves important health outcomes and concludes that benefits substantially outweigh harms.
B.— The USPSTF recommends that clinicians provide [this service] to eligible patients. The USPSTF found at least fair evidence that [the service] improves important health outcomes and concludes that benefits outweigh harms.
C.— The USPSTF makes no recommendation for or against routine provision of [the service]. The USPSTF found at least fair evidence that [the service] can improve health outcomes but concludes that the balance of benefits and harms is too close to justify a general recommendation.
D.— The USPSTF recommends against routinely providing [the service] to asymptomatic patients. The USPSTF found at least fair evidence that [the service] is ineffective or that harms outweigh benefits.
I.— The USPSTF concludes that the evidence is insufficient to recommend for or against routinely providing [the service]. Evidence that the [service] is effective is lacking, of poor quality, or conflicting and the balance of benefits and harms cannot be determined.