There is no shortage of internal medicine content online. What is missing is curation.
The Playbook decides what is worth learning tonight: one topic a day, matched to the day you are having. It is not a reference — a reference answers a question you already have; it cannot tell you what you do not yet know to ask. Every topic curates across guidelines, podcast episodes and landmark trials, and links you back to the source.
How a topic works
Three layers, separated by when you would actually read them.
On the wards · students
TL;DR
Read it while you are seeing patients. What it is, how it presents, what you do now, when to call for help. Under five minutes, on your phone.
At home · residents
Read Around the Case
Read it afterwards, to solidify the topic. The why behind what you ordered, and the trials that changed practice. Fifteen minutes, sitting down.
End of the week
Week review
Ten questions across the whole week, some spanning more than one topic — because real patients do not arrive sorted by chapter.
The Curriculum
Read one topic a day while on your IM rotation.
Week 0Before You Start
Week 3Nephrology & Gastroenterology
Week 4Infectious Disease & Endocrinology
Week 5Hematology & Rheumatology
Week 6Neurology, Older Adults & General Medicine
MedicinePodsAbout the IM Playbook
35 posts. 7 weeks. Built on Canadian guidelines, useful for trainees everywhere. Each post integrates curated content from The Intern at Work, The Rounds Table, and Trial Files.
Topics are curated by AI from current guidelines, then co-edited before publication by a general internist and medical educator — Dr. Zahra Merali, MB BCh BAO, FRCPC, MHPE — and a subspecialty physician in the relevant field.