Internal Medicine Residency News- February 24th, 2025

IM Residency

HAPPY LAST WEEK of FUN-BRUARY! The snow slowed us down a little last week but we will be right back at ya with GME Appreciation Week (cue the amazing GME t-shirts, GME Office trivia and Grub Hub, thanks Duke GME) as well as ACR’s leading the LEADs conference on Tuesday and our rescheduled pancakes and waffles on Wednesday and Trivia Bowl on Friday!

Please also remember to fill out your ACGME survey! Your personal link comes in an email from DONOTREPLY_ACGME.  Let’s hit our very first year of 100% participation!

Kudos this week to Julia Couto from Dr. Schneider for going above and beyond to help out on VA GM, to Garrett Bethel and Sam Collins for superior SAR talks, to Eli Cehelyk from Victor Ayeni for his awesome gen med skills, to Lexi Greene and Stephen Landy for creating the best VA Gen Med vibes (from David Stevens) and to Tommy Hamner and Oyin Adidepe from Alison Smith for great work overnight at the VA.  Also, huge kudos to everyone who cleaned and decorated the workrooms at Duke, the VA and DRH for the decorating/cleaning contest with Dr Cooney and to our winners: Michael Dagher/Clare Anderson (VA), Krunal Amin, Bryce Hendren, Jennifer Evans and Frank Estrella (Duke).  Finally the HUGEST KUDOS and thanks to all who made our Locked List Second Look event the most amazing!!!!  Our ACRs and Dr. Evans leaders Karen Young, Zach Dailey, John Demis, Alejandro de la Torre and Rachel Obimah for leading some sessions with the applicants and to all of our amazing tour guides (see pic below!) and folks who were able to make it to the social events!  Way to go FAM!!!!

This week’s pubmed from the program goes to Alex Gunn (special shout out in Grand Rounds too!)

JACC CardioOncol. 2024 May 28;6(4):612-616.

 doi: 10.1016/j.jaccao.2024.04.002.eCollection 2024 Aug.

Light-Chain Pericardial Amyloidosis Emerging Alongside Variant Transthyretin Cardiac Amyloidosis

Alexander H Gunn 1, Johana Fajardo 1 2, Louis Dibernardo 3, Carolyn Glass 3, Fawaz Alenezi 1 2, Ravi Karra 1 2 3, Ellen D McPhail 4, Cristiana Costa Chase 1 5, Michel G Khouri 1 2

Have a great week

Aimee

Medicine Grand Rounds: February 28, 2025

Date Topic Lecturer Location
02/28/2025

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Housestaff/Faculty Trivia Bowl

 

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Noon Conference: February 24-28, 2025

Date Inpatient Topic Lecturer Location Lunch
02/24/25

Cohen Conference

Dr. Siven Chinniah

 DUH 2002 & Zoom

Chick-fil-A
02/25/25

LEADS: "Vascu-like-is": Diagnostic Reasoning

Drs. John Demis, Karen Young, Zack Dailey

 DUH 2002 & Zoom Wheat
02/26/25

SAR Talk: Pulmonary Hypertension

Dr. Arvind Konkimalla

 DUH 2002 & Zoom

Enzo's
02/27/25

Curbsider Conference: Orthopedics

Dr. Christine Wu

 DUH 2002 & Zoom Piper's in the Park
02/28/25

8 am Chiefs MGR

Fun Lunch!

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DUH 2002 & Zoom

Domino's

Report Conference Schedule: February 24-27, 2025

Date Topic Lecturer Time
02/24/25

VA MS2 Report

DUKE SAR Report

VA JAR Report

Student teaching with faculty

Dr. Alex Gunn w/ Dr. Parsa Ghasem

Dr. Cooney w/ Dr. Alexandra Novelli

11 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

1:15 p.m.
02/25/25

DUKE SAR Report

VA JAR/Intern Report

DUKE Intern Report

Dr. Joseph Goddu w/ Dr. Govert

Dr. Horne w/ Dr. Leela Aekambarapu

Dr. Galanos

1:15 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m.
02/26/25

VA MS2 Report

DUKE SAR  Report

VA JAR Report 

Student teaching with ACR

Dr. Galanos

Dr. Zaas w/ Dr. Sarah Huffman

11 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

1:15 p.m.
02/27/25

VA JAR Report 

DUKE SAR Report

VA Intern Case Report

DUKE Intern Report 

JAR Leadership Series

Dr. Sanjay Gadi w/ Dr. Zaas

Dr. Schneider w/ Dr. Bronwen Foreman

Dr. Collin Darwish w/ Dr. Emory Buck or Dr. Amanda Broderick

1:15 p.m.

1:15 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

2:30 p.m.

Our Wellbeing
The Department of Medicine is keeping an updated list of wellbeing resources during this extraordinary time. Click here for more information.

Employee Health Hours!

  • My COVID Link - Report new or worsening COVID-19 symptoms or new exposures.
  • Employee Occupational Health & Wellness (EOHW) COVID Hotline, (919) 385-0429, option 1 (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday - Friday, and 8 a.m. - noon on weekends), After hours call the Duke emergency operator for the exposure nurse on call at (919) 684-8115.

Feeling down? Need to talk to someone? Opportunities for Wellness
All trainees at Duke have FREE access to Personal Assistance Services (PAS), which is the faculty/employee assistance program of Duke University. The staff of licensed professionals offer confidential assessment, short-term counseling, and referrals to help resolve a range of personal, work, and family problems. PAS services are available free of charge to Duke faculty and staff, and their immediate family members. An appointment to meet with a PAS counselor may be arranged by calling the PAS office at 919-416-1PAS (919-416-1727), Monday through Friday between 8:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. Prioritized GME appts are now available also at 6 pm and 7 pm! For assistance after hours, residents and fellows can call the Blood and Body Fluid Hotline (115 inside DUH, 919-684-1115 outside) for referral to behavioral health resources. Another resource is Duke Outpatient Psychiatry Referrals at (919) 684-0100 or 1-888-ASK-DUKE. Home | Personal Assistance Service (duke.edu)

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