Division News

SGIM 2025

DGIM at SGIM 2025 -- Presentations & Posters

The Society for General Internal Medicine’s (SGIM) annual meeting will be held in Hollywood, FL, May 14-17, 2025.  This year’s meeting theme is “From Ideas to Action: Catalyzing Change in Academic Internal Medicine.”  The meeting will feature more than 200 educational sessions and events including Workshops, Clinical Updates, Special Symposia Sessions, Poster Sessions, Distinguished Professor Talks, Pre-course Sessions, and Mentoring Panels.  Check out the many faculty and trainees from DGIM scheduled to present at the meeting!

Lynch Lecture Series

Dr. Johanna Lynch at Duke.
Dr. Johanna Lynch at Duke.

The Division hosted Australian family doctor Johanna Lynch, PhD MBBS, Grad Cert (Health Sciences), FRACGP FASPM, for a series of five presentations on November 17th-Nov 19th.

Lori Orlando

Orlando Leading Clinical Trial on Enhancing Family Health History Collection in Under-Served Populations

Lori Orlando, MD is spearheading an NIH-funded research initiative aimed at improving the use of Family Health History (FHH) in genomic medicine. The study, called the Genomic Medicine Risk Assessment Care for Everyone (GRACE), focuses on developing a scalable solution for integrating FHH-based risk assessments in clinical settings, with particular emphasis on low-resource and low-literacy populations.

 

Next Educator Cafe - Oct 31!

Please join us for the next quarterly Educator Cafe on Oct 31!  All GIM educators, whether inpatient/outpatient, new to Duke or a seasoned veteran, are welcome.  Faculty are invited to bring projects and topics to this community for discussion and feedback.  We will discuss educator needs related to:

SGIM 2024

DGIM Presenters at SGIM’s Annual Meeting

The Society for General Internal Medicine’s (SGIM) annual meeting was held in Boston, MA,  May 15-18, 2024.  The meeting featured more than 200 educational sessions and events including Workshops, Clinical Updates, Special Symposia Sessions, Plenary Sessions, Distinguished Professor Talks, Pre-conference Intensive Sessions, and Mentoring Panels. Several faculty and trainees from DGIM presented at the meeting (list


PCORI

Duke Awarded Funding to Raise Standard of Care for Pain Management

Chronic pain is one of the most burdensome conditions in the United States, with lower back pain comprising the largest subset of those conditions, and veterans bearing a disproportionate amount of this societal burden. Two Duke researchers plan to change that reality and raise the standard of pain care management.
Kamran Mahmood

Landmark Study Gives Lung Cancer Patients Better Biopsy Options

Duke lung cancer patients and their doctors now have better diagnoses options thanks to a new landmark study that fills a critical gap in clinical decision about which of two main biopsy modalities is better for the diagnosis of lung nodules in patients at moderate to high risk for cancer. 
Blue Ridge Rankings

PIONEER: Aligning Internal Medical Education and Realities of Clinical Care Delivery

To better prepare second-year Duke medical students for residency — and the real world — the internal medicine component of the School of Medicine’s outPatient Integrated lONgitudinal ExpERience (PIONEER) curriculum integrates early exposure to the outpatient setting — where much of medicine happens —  with robust ambulatory training and faculty mentorship. The 16-week experience fosters high-quality mentoring opportunities for students while opening doors for workforce development and research collaboration with faculty preceptors.