Internal Medicine Residency News - May 27th, 2025

IM Residency

We are powering quickly towards the end of the academic year! There are a lot of events and deadlines to be aware of, so please be sure to be checking emails from us and from the GME office.

Reminders regarding TSMA (moonlighting):

  • If you are graduating and leaving Duke, please do not moonlight after May 31 as GME will not have a way to pay you for your work. 
  • If you are a rising SAR, you will need to update your TSMA approvals to include July 2025 and beyond to be eligible for moonlighting in the upcoming academic year. 

This week, we have the RESIDENCY PHOTO at noon on MAY 29th (THURSDAY) on the steps outside of Trent Siemens. The entire process should take about 15-20 minutes so please be there. White coats are encouraged. 

Congratulations to Peter and Kayli Albares on the birth of their son! Welcome to the Duke Fam! 

Friday's noon conference is our Annual Residency Awards.  Please join us to recognize our teaching attendings and your peers for the resident selected awards! 

Lots of kudos this week for our amazing resident research day platform presenters Auston Stiefer, Lily Suarez, and Cat Cheney and to our poster presenters Sarah Yosief, Ashley Jowell, Othmane Jadi, Kate Lee, Alexandra Danyluk, Peter Albares, Reeti Gulati, Ashley Diaz, Josh Mercer, Luderve Rosier, Maggie Oliver, Theodore Moore, Oyi Adidepe, Daniel Bujnowski, Jordan Franklin, Kaushik Puranam, Julian Guetta-Weiss, Amber Feng, and Tara Seibert. Additional kudos to our LHSTP residents for their amazing presentations on Friday - Reeti Gulati, Ankit Kayastha, Lily Suarez, Maggie Oliver, and Best Uchehara.  

This week's pubmed from the program goes to Madeline Watson for her presentation at the ATS Conference in San Francisco: "Clearing the Air: Addressing Internal Medicine Residents' Knowledge of Racial, Socioeconomic and Gender Disparities in Chronic Obstructive Airway Diseases"  Watson M, Smith K and Joshi S. 

Have a great week!

Aimee 

Medicine Grand Rounds: 8am on Friday, May 30th, 2025

*Missed Resident Research Day last week? Watch the Presentations

*Find out more about weekly MGR or watch previous sessions here.

Date Topic Lecturer Location
05/30/2025

Medical Grand Rounds: Red Cell Exchange and Effect on Neutrophil Activation in Sickle Cell Disease

Grace Lee, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Hematology

 

DUH 2002 & Zoom

 

Noon Conference: May 26th - May 30th, 2025

Date Inpatient Topic Lecturer Location Lunch
05/26/25

 

 

Memorial Day - No Conference

 

 

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05/27/25

LEADS: Glomerulonephritis

Dr. Matthew Sparks

 DUH 2002 & Zoom Dominos
05/28/25

TBD

TBD

DUH 2002 & Zoom

Chick-fil-A
05/29/25

IM RESIDENCY PHOTO DAY in Trent Semens Building (lower level back stairs)

*wear your white coat

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 Trent Semens Pipers in the Park
05/30/25

Medical Grand Rounds: Red Cell Exchange and Effect on Neutrophil Activation in Sickle Cell Disease

Grace Lee, MD

DUH 2002 & Zoom

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Report Conference Schedule: May 26th - May 29th, 2025

Date Topic Lecturer Time
05/26/25

Memorial Day - No Reports

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05/27/25

DUKE SAR Report

DUKE Intern Report

Dr. Arivnd Konkimalla & Dr. Govert

Dr. Bryce Hendren-Santiago & Dr. Sam Hofacker

1:15 p.m.

2:30 p.m.
05/28/25

VA MS2 Report

DUKE SAR Report

VA JAR Report

Student teaching w/ ACR

Dr. Krunal Amin & Dr. Ghasem

Dr. Wu & Dr. Fassas

11 a.m.

1:15 p.m.

1:15 p.m.
05/29/25

VA JAR Leadership Series

Duke SAR Report

VA Intern Report

DUKE Intern Report

VA JAR Leadership Series

Dr. Yajaira Jimenez & Dr. Zaas

Dr. Robert & Dr. Bujnowski

Dr. Maria Paz & Dr. Ghasem

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)

Hi there, Neighbors!

Many thanks to everyone who came out in May to volunteer and engage with our community! Special shout-out to those who came and danced with the kiddos of Bull City Fit. As a reminder, the goal of these events is to help people know and love the Durham community for as long as we're here, and hopefully create a lot of fun activities that let residents bond with each other too!

Check out these exciting community engagement opportunities for the month of June: 

  • 🚚🍇 Root Causes: Fresh Produce Program 🍎📦

  •  🌎✈️ Durham Refugee Day 🗽🌍

    • Come and celebrate Durham’s refugee and immigrant communities at Durham Refugee Day 2025!

    • Time: Saturday, June 21 from 3pm-6pm

    • Location: Durham Central Park

    • Sign-Up: You can just drop by and celebrate, but they’re also in need of volunteers and you can sign up for that here!

    • Contact: None but tell me (Victor Ayeni- 678-894-5948, victor.ayeni@duke.edu) if you plan to come so we can get a group together!
       

  • 🚚🥫Duke Memorial Mobile Market 🥦🍎

    • This opportunity courtesy of Dr. Jenny Van Kirk's husband! Join one of many local groups fighting food insecurity in Durham as you load and organize food to then distribute to your neighbors in Durham. 

    • Time: Saturday, June 20 from 9am-11am (but happens every third Saturday)

    • Location: Duke Memorial (504 W Chapel Hill St)

    • Sign-Up: https://signup.com/go/pLjRwWm (there are multiple sign-up times with different tasks that you can choose from)

    • Contact: Matt Wood (Jenny Van Kirk’s husband) at 828-301-9703

If you can’t attend the upcoming events but still want to make a difference, consider supporting CWS Durham, our featured organization for donations this month! In honor of Durham’s vibrant refugee and immigrant communities, CWS plays a vital role in helping refugee families resettle. They assist with everything from securing housing and employment to providing legal aid. Check out the “Get Involved” section on their website for practical ways to advocate for refugee populations. It’s a great starting point for anyone eager to help but unsure where to begin.

As always, these events are suggested or led by members of our IM residency. If you have any ideas for community volunteering opportunities or local happenings that could help others connect with Durham and get to know our city and/or neighbors better, feel free to reach out to victor.ayeni@duke.edu to have it included in the next update.

Yours in neighbor-ing and on behalf of ResCo,

Victor

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