From the Director
Happy 2023 to all! Many thanks to everyone for your work over the holiday time and I hope you were also able to enjoy your time with family and friends.
Lots happening now that we shift into the second half of the year. Please see the emails from our stellar ambulatory crew (Drs. Zipkin and Harris) regarding the feedback inspired changes of morning report to an intern academic half day as well as the in-clinic administrative time. For other happenings, please make sure you have turned in your rising-JAR and rising-SAR schedule requests (reach out to me, APDs or chiefs with any questions) and sign up for your mid-year meeting with me or Dr Hargett if you have not done so already!
GET READY FOR THE THIRD ANNUAL DUKE IT OUT on WED JAN 11 at NOON! Come cheer on your super-SARS Harsh Patolia, Sukrit Jain, and Komal Safdar as they duke it out to see who takes home the best chalk talk prize! And a big early thank you to Kelly Flynn, Callie Lillie and Jackie Kercheval for their hard work putting this together.
Congratulations to Carter Devlin on your wedding this past weekend!
We will soon be sending out details about FUN-bruary so stay tuned for that. During February, Dr. Hargett and I will also have the “Intro to Fellowship Application Process” meetings for those applying … dates TBD.
Kudos
Kudos this week to Nicholas Perkons for getting a “High Five” award from nursing for excellent communication, to Auston Steifer from Dr. Ruchi Doshi for helping with getting patient records overnight, to Chris Luccarelli for his clinical expertise in the MICU (from Ben Berger), to Ben Redpath from Dr. Lily Huang for his fantastic intellectual curiousity and work as VA dayfloat, to Karen Young for fabulous patient care on DHP, to Anand Shah from Isabelle Byers for his amazing work on a busy gen med day, to Ethan Feiger from Katie Smith for his extra work overnight in the CICU, to Noah HEllermann from Hannah Schwennensen for his procedural excellence and compassionate care in the CICU, to Michael Ibrahim from Fuoad Chouari for being an awesome MICU call buddy, to Sachi Oshima from Carter Devlin for her life saving diagnostic skills, to Jeff Lee, Kurren Mehta and Mark Brahier for compassionate care of a patient (sent in from the family), and to Daniel Travis from Dr. Jane Gagliardi for his wonderful care of a patient overnight.
Pubmed from the Program
The first pubmed from the program of 2023 goes to the Dr. Dawn Provenzale Resident Research Award winners: Congratulations to Drs. Sriya Muralidiharan, Katie Jordan, Kate Lee, Cat Cheney, Shivy Chandramouli, Callie Lillie and Sachi Oshima!
Have a great week
Aimee
Academic Half Day: January 6, 2023
| Thread | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rheum/Renal/Endo/ID/GI/GIM |
Fatigue & Arthralgias |
Dr. David Leverenz |
9:15 a.m. |
VA Survey Conference Room- C5010 |
| Card/Heme/Pulm/Onc |
Personal Fiance |
Dr. Venu Reddy |
9:15 a.m. |
Duke North 2003 |
Medicine Grand Rounds: January 6, 2023
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/06/22 | NO MGR |
-- |
-- |
Noon Conference: January 2-6, 2023
| Date | Inpatient Topic | Lecturer | Location | Lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/02/23 |
HOLIDAY |
-- | -- | -- |
| 01/03/23 | NO LEADS |
-- |
-- | Itaewon Grill |
| 01/04/23 | Decision Making in Serious Medical Illness | Dr. Josh Briscoe | DUH 2002 & Zoom |
Chick-fil-A |
| 01/05/23 | SAR Talk: Depression |
Dr. Cameron Strong |
DUH 2002 & Zoom | Guasaca |
| 01/06/23 |
Fun Lunch! |
-- |
-- | Dominos |
Report Conference Schedule: January 2-5, 2023
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01/02/23 HOLIDAY |
VA JAR CAT DUKE SAR Report- held in 2253 MS2 Report |
-- -- |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
| 01/03/23 |
VA JAR Report DUKE SAR Report- held in 2253 VA Intern Report DUKE Intern Report- held in 2253 |
Orientation Dr. Wan w/ Dr. Govert Orientation Dr. Gray w/ Dr. Narcisse |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
| 01/04/23 |
VA JAR Report DUKE SAR Report- held in 8262 |
Dr. Oshima w/ Dr. Cooney Dr. Chen-Andrews w/ Dr. Zaas |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. |
| 01/05/23 |
VA JAR Report Duke SAR Report- held in 2253 VA Intern Report Duke Intern Report- held in 2253 |
Dr. Richman w/ Dr. Wu QI Dr. Gadi |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
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Employee Health has Expanded Hours!
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