Division News


Landmark PICO study tops 1k citations

Celebrate! Kudos to the team, especially this set of Duke GIM authors. This week, according to Google Scholar, their paper about a structured PubMed search strategy has exceeded 1000 citations, an achievement by very very few publications!

New Faculty: November 2020

A warm welcome to new Department of Medicine faculty members who started in November 2020!

Dr. Sata gives high-value presentation

Dr. Suchita Shah Sata gave an invited presentation for the High-Value Care STARS program as part of their speaker series on fundamentals of high-value care.

Dr. Jane Kim leads national VA vaccine project

Jane Kim, MD, associate professor of medicine (General Internal Medicine) and chief consultant for Preventive Medicine at the National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, VA Patient Care Services, is leading VA vaccine planning.

A COVID-19 outbreak at a homeless shelter

For most in health care this would be a major stress – an outbreak of COVID-19 at a homeless shelter. This is the story of just such an event in Durham, NC, an outbreak that called for a major multidisciplinary response.

DUH Hospitalist becomes co-editor of Annals blog

DUH hospitalist Dr. Sonya Patel-Nguyen will be joining our own Dr.Fatima Syed as co-editor of Annals Fresh Look, a blog sponsored by the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. The published content of this blog features reflections and relevance of Annals content to our professional lives.

Peyser directs faculty development sessions for primary care

Recently clinicians in Duke Primary Care (DPC) were given opportunity to attend faculty development sessions designed specifically to strengthen clinician-educator skill sets for learners in the primary care office or urgent care setting. These were directed by Dr. Bruce Peyser, professor of medicine in the division of general internal medicine.