Medicine Grand Rounds feature weekly topic and case-based presentations designed to provide faculty and trainees with up-to-date knowledge about timely issues in internal medicine.

Title: Rash or Red Flag? When Drug Reactions Can’t Wait

Speaker: Dr. Leonardo Tjahjono

Format: Virtual

Learning objectives:

1. Recognize common and life-threatening cutaneous drug reactions and distinguish urgent presentations requiring immediate intervention from benign, self-limited eruptions.

2. Apply a systematic clinical approach to evaluating suspected drug eruptions, integrating morphology, timing, systemic symptoms, and medication exposure to guide management and referral.

3. Identify how drug reactions may present differently across skin tones, including in patients with skin of color, and incorporate health-equity principles to reduce diagnostic delay and disparities in recognition and treatment.