Internal Medicine Residency Readings: Rheumatology

Web-based educational modules designed for internal medicine program residents.

Miloslavsky EM. Approach to laboratory ordering and interpretation in rheumatology [published online ahead of print, 2022 Jul 25]. Postgrad Med J. 2022;postgradmedj-2022-141864. doi:10.1136/pmj-2022-141864

Di Matteo, A., Bathon, J. M., & Emery, P. (2023). Rheumatoid arthritis. Lancet (London, England), 402(10416), 2019–2033. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01525-8

Jubber, A., & Moorthy, A. (2021). Reactive arthritis: a clinical review. The journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 51(3), 288–297. https://doi.org/10.4997/JRCPE.2021.319

Kloppenburg, M., Namane, M., & Cicuttini, F. (2025). Osteoarthritis. Lancet (London, England), 405(10472), 71–85. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02322-5

FitzGerald J. D. (2025). Gout. Annals of internal medicine, 178(3), ITC33–ITC48. https://doi.org/10.7326/ANNALS-24-03951

Cowley S, McCarthy G. Diagnosis and Treatment of Calcium Pyrophosphate Deposition (CPPD) Disease: A Review. Open Access Rheumatol. 2023;15:33-41. Published 2023 Mar 22. doi:10.2147/OARRR.S389664

Lam, N. V., Brown, J. A., & Sharma, R. (2023). Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Diagnosis and Treatment. American family physician, 107(4), 383–395.

Zhao M, Wu J, Wu H, Sawalha AH, Lu Q. Clinical Treatment Options in Scleroderma: Recommendations and Comprehensive Review. Clin Rev Allergy Immunol. 2022;62(2):273-291. doi:10.1007/s12016-020-08831-4

Brito-Zerón, P., Baldini, C., Bootsma, H., Bowman, S. J., Jonsson, R., Mariette, X., Sivils, K., Theander, E., Tzioufas, A., & Ramos-Casals, M. (2016). Sjögren syndrome. Nature reviews. Disease primers, 2, 16047. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrdp.2016.47

Pepper K. (2023). Giant cell arteritis. Postgraduate medicine, 135(sup1), 22–32. https://doi.org/10.1080/00325481.2023.2190288

Kronbichler, A., Bajema, I. M., Bruchfeld, A., Mastroianni Kirsztajn, G., & Stone, J. H. (2024). Diagnosis and management of ANCA-associated vasculitis. Lancet (London, England), 403(10427), 683–698. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)01736-1

Ralli, M., Campo, F., Angeletti, D., Minni, A., Artico, M., Greco, A., Polimeni, A., & de Vincentiis, M. (2020). Pathophysiology and therapy of systemic vasculitides. EXCLI journal, 19, 817–854. https://doi.org/10.17179/excli2020-1512

Rivera-Chavarría IJ, Brenes-Gutiérrez JD. Thromboangiitis obliterans (Buerger's disease). Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2016 Mar 29;7:79-82. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2016.03.028. eCollection 2016 May. Review. PubMed PMID: 27144003; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4840397.

Saadoun, D., Bodaghi, B., & Cacoub, P. (2024). Behçet's Syndrome. The New England journal of medicine, 390(7), 640–651. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMra2305712

Bossuyt, X., De Langhe, E., Borghi, M. O., & Meroni, P. L. (2020). Understanding and interpreting antinuclear antibody tests in systemic rheumatic diseases. Nature reviews. Rheumatology, 16(12), 715–726. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41584-020-00522-w

Nashi, R. A., & Shmerling, R. H. (2021). Antinuclear Antibody Testing for the Diagnosis of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. The Medical Clinics of North America, 105(2), 387–396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcna.2020.10.003

Gómez-Bañuelos, E., Fava, A., & Andrade, F. (2023). An update on autoantibodies in systemic lupus erythematosus. Current opinion in rheumatology, 35(2), 61–67. https://doi.org/10.1097/BOR.0000000000000922

Martin, C. L., & Browne, J. A. (2019). Intra-articular Corticosteroid Injections for Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis: What the Orthopaedic Provider Needs to Know. The Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 27(17), e758–e766. https://doi.org/10.5435/JAAOS-D-18-00106