From the Director
Hello Fam!
It is the last MED RES NEWS of 2021. Thank you to the chiefs for the final HYPE Friday of our Holiday Hype season and to our Tacos champ Emory Buck and Thanks Rx champ Shivy Chandramouli! If you are around, please consider heading over to the GME Blood Drive tomorrow. Also send a big congrats to our amazing IM and Med Peds APDs, Drs. Jenny Van Kirk and Colby Feeney who each won a Division of General Internal Medicine 2021 Award (Educational Excellence and Quality Improvement, respectively!). Also huge holiday thanks to Sandra Loriaux and the ResCo team for the IM-Med Peds Residency Holiday Food Drive and to Ashley Thrower and the Minority Housestaff Council for sponsoring women and children at the Durham Rescue Mission’s Good Samaritan Inn. Finally, the Department of Medicine is helping out the patients at the DOC through the DOC Patient Fund. SO many great opportunities to make this holiday season a little brighter.
Patagonias have arrived. Thanks so much Lynsey for organizing this!!
Kudos
Kudos as well this week to Gracie Ernstberger from Dr Eric Pollak for awesome work on Duke Gen Med, to VA CCU residents Casey Howe, Kelly Flynn, and Brittany Chapman for taking charge of the service and did an incredible job with management and disposition from Dr Sunil Rao, to Nijat Aliyev from Grace Lee for crushing DRH nights, to Mary Jo Obeid and Lauren Pinion from Nicole DUssault for being the best Gen Med team, and to Zach Lorsch from Emory Buck for above and beyond care of a patient at the VA.
Congrats to Duke Fam alum Katie Pollard and Alex Sullivan on their wedding this weekend!
And super cheesey kudos from me to ALL OF THE DUKE FAM for making these past six months the best they could possibly be – taking care of your patients as well as looking out for each other along the way.
Pubmed from the Program
This week’s pubmed from the program goes to Andrew Andreae and Ann Cameron Barr for their publication
Appearance of Meningovascular Neurosyphilis Causing an Acute Ischemic Stroke.
Andreae A, Barr AC, Fulton Z, Enterline D, Dicks K.Sex Transm Dis. 2021 Aug 1;48(8):e109-e110. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000001330.
HAVE A WONDERFUL HOLIDAY!
Aimee
Med Res Team Office Calendar
From the Chief Residents
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/21/21 |
NO MORNING REPORT |
7:15 a.m. | Zoom | |
| 12/22/21 | NO MORNING REPORT | 7:15 a.m. | Zoom | |
| 12/23/21 | NO MORNING REPORT | 7:15 a.m. | Zoom |
Academic Half Day: December 24th, 2021
| Thread | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rheum/Renal/Endo/ID/GI/GIM |
NO AHD |
|
9 a.m. 10:30 a.m. |
VA Surgery Conference Room C5010 |
| Card/Heme/Pulm/Onc |
NO AHD |
|
9 a.m. 10:30 a.m. |
VA Medicine Conference Room C8016 |
| Date | Inpatient Topic on Zoom | Lecturer | Time | Location | Lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/20/21 | NO NOON CONFERENCE | 12 p.m. |
Zoom/in-person |
Guasaca |
|
| 12/21/21 |
NO LEADS |
|
12 p.m. |
Zoom |
Chubby's |
| 12/22/21 |
NO NOON CONFERENCE |
12 p.m. |
Zoom/in-person |
Chick-Fil-A | |
| 12/23/21 |
NO NOON CONFERENCE |
|
12 p.m. |
Zoom/in-person |
Itaewon |
| 12/24/21 | NO GRAND ROUNDS |
|
12 p.m. |
Zoom/in-person |
Happy & Hale |
Report Conference Schedule: December 20-23, 2021
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/20/21 |
VA JAR CAT Duke SAR Report - held in 2253 MS2 Report - held in 8262 |
|
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
| 12/21/21 |
VA JAR Case Report Duke SAR Report - held in 2253 VA Intern Case Report Duke Intern Case Report - held in 2253 |
|
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
| 12/22/21 |
VA JAR CAT Duke SAR Report - held in 8262 |
|
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. |
| 12/23/21 |
VA JAR Case Report Duke SAR Report - held in 2253 VA Intern Case Report Duke Intern Case Report |
|
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
From the Residency Office
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 has Expanded Hours!
Based on feedback from team members who are seeking COVID testing so they can safely return to work with EOHW approval, the COVID hotline has expanded hours for employees: 5:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 7 days per week.
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. 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. https://www.hr.duke.edu/pas/
Opportunities
Useful links
- ACR Teach Blog
- GME Mistreatment Reporting Site
- Duke Health Influenza Policy
- http://duke.exitcareoncall.com/
- Main Internal Medicine Residency website
- Main Curriculum website
- Department of Medicine
- Confidential Comment Line Note (All submissions are strictly confidential unless you chose to complete the optional section requesting a response.)
- Updates from the Division of Hematology
- The Scope