Division News

Bruce Peyser, MD, a clinician-educator in DGIM, will co-chair, along with Robyn Latessa, MD, from UNC SOM Asheville, the upcoming “Consortium for Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (CLIC) 2015.” This large conference takes place Oct 4-8, 2015, beginning with 2 days in Durham, then 2 days in Asheville. The CLIC is a relatively new movement in medical education that uses continuity as an organizing principle.

Growing interest in longitudinal care

For this week’s faculty spotlight, we talk to Corrine Voils, PhD, a faculty member of DGIM since completing her fellowship in 2004. In this interview, Voils talks about leading faculty development efforts and about a planning grant that evaluates an IT platform for weight loss management. Did you know she’s from Texas and “grew up in the desert”? Dr. Voils plays cello with the Duke Medicine Orchestra. Read what she adds, too, about the value of Twitter!

Posted by George L. Jackson, Ph.D., MHA*

VA HSR&D-DGIM Implementation Science Series: UNC’s Bryan Weiner Talks about the State of Implementation Science

Beginning next week, Drs. Greenblatt (GIM) and Yanamadala (Geriatrics) will present their Teachers’ Workshop to newly hired DUH and DRH hospitalists. Participants receive a series of six 2-hour seminars based on the “Stanford Faculty Development Program in Clinical Teaching”, a curriculum designed to enhance teacher versatility.

These two instructors have collectively trained more than 1000 physicians across various settings, both in the U.S. and in several countries, the most recent in Singapore at Duke-NUS.

"WIP" stands for “Works in Progress”, part of a weekly Faculty/Fellow Development Series directed by Drs. Corrine Voils and David Edelman. The series content often covers educational topics but a special focus is the “Works in Progress”. In these sessions mentees present preliminary research findings, grant ideas, or perhaps a review of an abstract prior to submission to a meeting. They can receive feedback on presentation skills via a practice talk for a conference.

If so, you have kindred spirits in two places: (1) in the "North American Primary Care Research Group" and (2) locally, within the "North Carolina Network Consortium".

If so, you have kindred spirits in two places: (1) in the "North American Primary Care Research Group" and (2) locally, within the "North Carolina Network Consortium".

Clarissa Jonas Diamantidis, MD, MHS, assistant professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine and Nephrology), started her residency at Duke focused on cardiology.

“My father was a Black-Hispanic cardiologist with an interest in health disparities and access to care,” she says, “and I was intent on following in his footsteps.”

However, during nephrology rounds she became fascinated with kidney disease. Her first visit to a dialysis unit sealed the deal: “It was full of black patients hooked up to ominous-looking machines, with a striking deficiency of white patients. At that moment, I decided I wanted to study nephrology.”

Three times for this one. Saumil Chudgar, MD, Duke hospitalist and director of undergraduate medical education for the Department of Medicine, just received recognition from the medical students, again from the second years in the Practice Course, recognizing those who demonstrate exceptional professional behavior in the clinical setting.

Jeffrey Clough, MD, a Health Services Researcher at Duke, is the lead author of this recent JAMA viewpoint article, July 28, 2015.

Jeffrey D. Clough, MD, MBA, Barak D. Richman, JD, PhD, Seth W. Glickman, MD, MBA. Outlook for Alternative Payment Models in Fee-for-Service Medicare. JAMA. 2015;314(4):341-342. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.8047.