Internal Medicine Residency News, January 17, 2017

From the Director

Hope everyone had a good weekend (a long weekend for some!).  We are closing in on the end of recruitment - three more recruiting days this year! 

Thanks to everyone for your continued enthusiasm and participation in our recruitment events.  Once recruitment is over, it will nearly be time to be ready for the second annual FUN-bruary, as well as the amazing Charity Auction, to be held on March 3rd.  Maggie Infeld and Coco Fraiche are in charge of the auction, so please reach out to them if you are interested in helping this fantastic event benefitting Senior PharmASSIST and the DOC Patient Fund.

New Cardiology Division Chief Dr. Manesh Patel would love to meet with you. He’s hoping to discuss cardiology education at Duke during a “Town Hall” style meeting on Feb. 2 at 6 p.m. in the med res library.  This is not to discuss careers in cardiology, but to talk about cardiology education for all residents, including the opening of the new CCU in just a few weeks!

Kudos

Kudos this week to Hari Ramalingam for a fantastic recruitment afternoon report and Megan Gillum for an equally fantastic chair’s conference! Also to the night float crew of Robert Diep, Rachel Feder, Emily Kinsey, Jackie Bowell and Rebecca Ruf from your SS-NF Div Patel - he says you are doing an amazing job! More kudos to Luke Cerbin from Drs. Gehrig and Bashore for his work as the ‘teaching JAR’ on the new cardiology service, and to Madi for her idea to bring in Guasaca for lunch this week - way to switch it up! And CONGRATULATIONS to Titus Ngeno on his engagement! Also kudos from Manisha Bhattacharya to the VA GMers this month Irena Tan, Kent Feng, Ankeet Bhatt and dayfloat Taylor Bazemore for fantastic teamwork! 

Thank you to our awesome My Take residents Hannah Dzimictrowicz, Megan Dupuis, Christine Bates, Daniel Turner, Luke Cerbin, and John Musgrove and to our tour guides as well Talisha Ramchal, Jenny Van Kirk, Lindsey Shantzer, AJ Blood, Christine Bates, Joe Plaksin, Brian Wasserman, and Manisha Bhattacharya.

PubMed from the Program

This week’s pubmed from the program goes to Wynn Hunter and Ben Ranard, who both had articles mentioned in the yearly Top 10 of Health Affairs! 

Study Of Physician And Patient Communication Identifies Missed Opportunities To Help Reduce Patients’ Out-Of-Pocket Spending. Peter A. Ubel 1,*,  Cecilia J. Zhang 2,  Ashley Hesson 3,  J. Kelly Davis 4,  Christine Kirby 5,  Jamison Barnett 6 and  Wynn G. Hunter 7 and  Yelp Reviews Of Hospital Care Can Supplement And Inform Traditional Surveys Of The Patient Experience Of Care. Benjamin L. Ranard 1,  Rachel M. Werner 2,  Tadas Antanavicius 3,  H. Andrew Schwartz 4,  Robert J. Smith 5,  Zachary F. Meisel 6,  David A. Asch 7,  Lyle H. Ungar 8 and  Raina M. Merchant9,*.

Have a great week, stay safe and stay warm!

Aimee

Clinic Corner: Pickett Road Clinic

Contributed by Sharon Rubin, MD

The roads have melted from the snow for Pickett Road. We were closed Monday and Tuesday morning but able to open to take care of patients in the afternoon. We celebrated the Holidays with gift giving to each other and delicious pot luck and donated a huge box full of toys to the Durham Rescue Mission. The clinic has been busy with interviewing for new providers and CMA staff. Interns and JARs have increased their patient slots to 5 and 7 respectively. But we emphasize the need for education and blocked slots to enable our residents to go to noon conference. We are hopeful in the future to set up lunch in conjunction with GME to watch noon conference remotely. Proudly we are close to completing at least 3 mini cex for ALL of our residents these next few months.

From the Chief Residents

Morning Report and MGR: January 16-20, 2017
Date Topic Lecturer Time Location
1/16/17

Canceled

 

    
1/17/17

Case Presentation

Tara Holder to Ken Lyles

 7:15 a.m.

DUH 8253
1/18/17

Case Presentation

Amanda Boyd to Mary Klotman

 7:15 a.m. DUH 8253
1/19/17

Inflammatory Arthritis

Lisa Criscione-Schreiber

 7:15 a.m. DUH 8253
1/20/17

Bouncing Back: Physical Resilience in Older Adults

 Cathleen Colon-Emeric and Heather Whitson 8:00 a.m. DUH 2002

 

Noon Conference: January 16-20, 2017
Date Topic Lecturer Time Location Lunch
1/16/17

No conference 

 

    

 
1/17/17

SLE and Pregnancy

Megan Clowse

 12:00 p.m. DUH 2003

Domino's
1/18/17 3 Good Things

Stephanie Schwartz

 12:00 p.m.

DUH 2002

 Firehouse Subs
1/19/17

Functional GI Disorders/G Brief

Douglas Drossman

 12:00 p.m.

DUH 2001

 Chick-fil-A
1/20/17

Chair's conference

Ashley Spann

 11:30 a.m. DUH 2002 Panera

From the Residency Office

Recruitment

Keep an eye out for emails that have the recruitment graphic—these messages mean we need your help or response.

Humanism in Medicine Lecture Series

Haider Warraich, MD, cardiovascular diseases fellow, will give a presentation, "Searching for Beauty at the End of Life," based on his upcoming book, "Modern Death," on Jan. 17 at noon in Duke North 2002. From Dr. Warraich: "I think many of us are affected by death in the hospital in a very powerful way, but frequently with negative emotional consequences. In this talk, I hope to convey how we can find meaning and beauty in dying and change a narrative in which death is the enemy." Learn more.

 
House Staff Hoops Watch

Duke Medical Alumni Association invites current house staff to cheer the Blue Devils on to victory over UNC on Thur., Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m. at Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, 280 S. Mangum Street. Complimentary appetizers and one drink ticket per person will be provided. RSVP is required: bit.ly/dukemedhoops.

 
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/

Office hours for program leaders

Please feel free to stop by during these times and of course always feel free to reach out to program leaders to set up a meeting outside of these times if needed.

  • Aimee Zaas: Thursday, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Upcoming Dates and Events

  • January 17 - Humanism in Medicine Lecture: Haider Warraich, MD, "Searching for Beauty at the End of Life"

  • February 2 - Cardiology Town Hall with Manesh Patel, MD, MedRes Library, 6 p.m.

  • February 9 - House Staff Hoops, 7:30 p.m., Tobacco Road Sports Cafe, RSVP: bit.ly/dukemedhoops

  • March 3 - Charity Auction

Opportunities

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