Internal Medicine Residency News, Jan. 15, 2018

From the Director

Thank you to everyone for your hard work as the hospitals and clinics are extremely busy.  We are settling in to our last few recruitment days, finishing up the semi-annual meetings and gearing up for making next year’s schedules. Today is also Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day – if you were unable to see Grand Rounds on Friday from Dr. Kimberly Johnson, please take time to watch it – her talk is outstanding. Click here to watch it.

 

Kudos

Kudos this week go to Sipa Yankey for a great SAR talk, and belated kudos to Dan Maselli for his SAR talk a few weeks ago that I forgot to give kudos to! Also kudos to Becca Lumsden for an awesome chair’s conference and to our My Take residents Meg Steiner, Dan Turner and Lauren Donnangelo. Also kudos this week to Mark Robertshaw from Matt Labriola for great work on VA Gen Med, to the VA GM Blue 2 team of Danielle Howard, Amanda Boyd, Jonathon Himes, and Matthew Hansen from Filley Howe for phenomenal work on a busy post call day, to Hysem Eldik from DRH ACR Kevin Smith for the many compliments Hysem has gotten for his patient care, to Dan Turner and Sky Vanderburg for their gold stars earned at the DOC, for wonderful communication and patient care, and to Paul Riordan from DInushika (and all of us!) for his vision and enthusiasm for enhancing our ambulatory education/ by incorporating mental/behavioral health topics into the existing curriculum.

PubMed from the Program

This weeks pubmed from the program goes to Michael Noujiam for his recent publication in Gastronenterology Research! "Carcinoids and Capsules: A Case Series Highlighting the Utility of Capsule Endoscopy in Patients With Small Bowel Carcinoids." Michael G. Noujaima, e, f, Jonathan Greenb, e, May Minc, Christopher R. Schlieveb, Krunal Patelc, d, Mitchell Cahanb, David Cave

Have a great week!

Aimee

 

Clinic Corner: Pickett Road

Contributed by Sharon Rubin

We have started the new year with many positive changes. We are reassigning part of the clinic and moving staff into our open spaces. One space that is being created will be a space for staff on the first floor. To celebrate this change we are planning our first YOGA class for the clinic this month. We are getting a team started to be fit for 2018 and walk more at lunch. More of our residents will be on our Duke Primary Care Website and will be scheduled for their video interview this spring. Lastly we have a clinic bonding dinner planned for the end of the month.

From the Chief Residents

 
 
Morning Report and MGR: Jan. 15-19, 2018
Date Topic Lecturer Time Location
1/15/18

No Conference - Holiday

 

    
1/16/18 Case Presentation Corey Bradley and Harvey Cohen 7:15 a.m.

DUH 8252
1/17/18

Ambulatory Management of Alcohol/substance use disorder

 Paul Riordan 7:15 a.m. DUH 8252
1/18/18

Medical Problems of Pregnancy

 Lynn Bowlby 7:15 a.m. DUH 8252
1/19/18

Medicine Grand Rounds: Innovating for Value: How to Improve Quality, Lower Costs, and Save Ourselves

Ziad Gellad

 8 a.m. DUH 2002

 

Noon Conference: Jan. 15-19, 2018
Date Topic Lecturer Time Location Lunch
1/15/18

No Conference - Holiday

 

 

    
1/16/18

Rheumatoid arthritis/Osteoarthritis

William St. Clair

 12:10 p.m. DUH 2002

Bullocks
1/17/18

Jeopardy with Chiefs

IM Chiefs

12:10 p.m.

DUH 2002

 Cosmic Cantina
1/18/18

Financial Planning

Molly Stanifer, CFP

 12:10 p.m.

DUH 2002

 Domino's
1/19/18

Chair's Conference with Internal Medicine Applicants

Corey Bradley

 11:30 a.m.

DUH 2002

 Bull Street
 
 
Duke Gen Med Conference Schedule: Jan. 15-19, 2018
Date Topic Lecturer Time
1/15/18

Case Presentation with applicants

Chair's Sign outs

Caroline Sloan

​Gen Med 2 to Eileen Maziarz

1 p.m.

6:30 p.m.
1/16/18

SAR Report

 Jeremy Cypen to Joe Govert

1:15 p.m.
1/17/18

SAR Report

Intern Report

Zach Il'Giovine to Aimee Zaas

Divya Natesan to Eileen Maziarz

1:15 p.m.

3 p.m.
1/11/18

SAR Report/QI Conference

Intern Hospitalist Series

Jackie Bolwell to George Cheely

Dr. Shah

1:15 p.m.

3 p.m.

From the Residency Office

 
Narrative Medicine

It is time to get pumped for our next Narrative Medicine meeting coming up on Jan. 19! Our first few sessions with Dr. Pisetsky have been incredible, and we are so excited to have Dinushika to precept our next meeting! The prompt will be to write a story from the perspective of one of your patients. This will be a great time to flex our creativity and reflect on the experiences that our patients have. If you are interested in joining us, please send Matthew Labriola an e-mail so we know how many to expect and can plan out  how many narratives can be discussed. We usually meet around 6:30 p.m. and wrap up by 8:30-9 p.m. depending on the numbers. We are limited to 10 participants.

 
 
Check out The Scope

The Scope is a weekly newsletter that goes out on Fridays and summarizes the best evidence-based medical research from the week in a few fun and easy-to-read sentences. You can check out this weeks email below and people can sign up, see prior issues, and learn more about it at www.medicinescope.com.

 
Faculty-Resident Research Grant

The applications are due on April 8, 2018 for a funding start date on July 1, 2018.

For JARs, the funding end date is June 30, 2019. For Interns, the funding end date is June 30, 2020.

Attached please find the application forms, instructions, and sample NIH format biosketch (the old NIH Bioskecth format forms are acceptable for your CV)

Please submit your application as a single word or pdf file that includes your mentor’s NIH Biosketch (the new versus old NIH Biosketch format is optional for your mentor).

Please email a pdf file of the signed mentor's support letter with your application by April 9, either as part of the entire application or separately.

Each proposal must have a Human subjects section that describes the protections of the patients and patient data, describe the consent procedure if applicable, status of IRB protocol (to be submitted, already submitted or already approved, as appropriate) etc. This section is required whether to not your project is a retrospective or prospective study, whether patient identifiers are exposed (or not) during data collection/analysis, whether consent is to be obtained or there is a waiver for consent. Please see attached example language that you can adapt to your own specific protocol after discussing with your research mentor.

The next opportunity to apply for a research grant will be in September 2018. Please also find attached scholarship opportunity calendar for this academic year 2017-2018

For any questions, or to discuss mentorship and research project opportunities please contact murat.arcasoy@duke.edu

 
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/

Upcoming Dates and Events

  • Jan. 19 - Narrative Medicine meeting

  • April 20 - Charity Auction at Motorco

Opportunities

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