Advanced Internal Medicine (AIM)


AIM Specialty Board

Requirements
  • Pass Joint HKCPIE/MRCP(UK) examination
  • At least 36-month Basic Physician Training at accredited centres
  • A member of HKCP

Training Checklist
  1. Submit the  Higher Physician Training (HPT) Trainee Registry
  2. Fill in  AIM Training Record Sheet (stick it in the log book)
  3. Complete Self-Learning Tool (SLT) 2 times per year (6-month cycle with deadline in Mar and Sep every year)
  4. Write 2 Case Reports
  5. Attend interim assessment ( fill the  Interim and Exit Assessment forms [updated October 2019] )
  6. Attend exit assessment ( fill the  Interim and Exit Assessment forms [updated October 2019] )

Sample questions for AIM Exit Assessment

Others

Changing Training Specialty

Suspension of training

Guidelines for case report

Examples of well written case reports

Should a hole in the heart be closed?

Anti-TIF1 gamma associated dermatomyositis

A case of Cushing’s syndrome with hepatitis B reactivation

Stiff-person syndrome associated with thymoma

Purulent pneumococcal pericarditis: an uncommon but severe form of invasive pneumococcal disease

Pneumocystis pneumonia while on steroid and rituximab for pemphigus vulgaris

An elderly woman with fever and poor skin condition – a case of complicated MRSA bacteraemia

A typical case of carbamazepine related Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis

A patient with vertebral artery dissection

What to do if the patient continued to be big?

Neurosyphilis

A case of normal pressure hydrocephalus presenting with frequent falls

A case of thyoid storm

An Elderly Woman with Generalized Numbness

A case of statin associated immune mediated necrotising myopathy

Resistant thyrotoxicosis

Just another case of GE?

A middle aged lady with haemoptysis

A case of encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis

A case of piperacillin-tazobactam anaphylaxis

A neglected disease entity in Hong Kong

Autonomic Neuropathy Complicating A Patient With Acute Decompensated Heart Failure

A case of mercury-associated nephrotic syndrome in a young lady

A case of post-tuberculosis recurrent haemoptysis

Just a simple headache?

A case of ectopic Cushing’s Syndrome

A patient with bilateral pulmonary embolism presented as loss of consciousness

A Case of Debilitating Paradoxical Reaction in Tuberculosis

A Case of Idiopathic Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus with the Classical Triad of Symptoms

A case of immune mediated necrotizing myopathy

A case of Rickettsial infection and its diagnostic challenges

Just Dementia? A case of central nervous system lymphoma.

Two Sides of the Same Coin: A Paradox of Bleeding and Clotting

A case of immune thrombocytopenia with relapse

Uncontrollable seizures, hyponatremia, and cognitive decline - A case of anti-LGI-1 antibody autoimmune encephalitis

An unusual stroke patient with a temperature

Metformin associated lactic acidosis. To fear or not to fear

A rare cause of thyrotoxicosis

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