Internal Medicine Residency News, January 23, 2017

From the Director

We are on our last week of interview season! Thanks to all for your continued enthusiasm for meeting our future interns.  We close out this week with the GME-wide URM Second Look Weekend, so also thanks in advance to those who are helping out and meeting with our applicants who are coming back for a second visit.

Get ready for Fun-bruary, just around the corner! We all know that February is the shortest month, it’s still dark, and it is likely still cold - we all can use a little pick-me-up. Erin and the Residency Council are deep into planning our events for the month, so stay tuned.  And certainly mark your calendars for the GME-wide Duke-UNC game watching party on Feb. 9.

For current JARs, we will start having career planning (fellowship and job) workshops after the interview season closes, as well as a meet and greet with division chiefs and fellowship directors at Dr. Klotman’s house. Keep an eye out for dates and times! Of course, if you have any questions before the meetings, please be sure to check in with me or your advisor!

Kudos

Kudos this week to Lara Kapp from Abby Jakubec for going above and beyond to help out on neuro nights, to Ashley Spann for an awesome chair’s conference, and to Jacob Kaufman for pushing us along in the discussion. And a belated kudos to John Musgrove from Ali Saadi for exemplary work as the CCU teach resident. Also big thank you’s to our My Take speakers Lara Kapp, AJ Blood, and Jenny Van Kirk, as well as our tour guides Lauren Sharan, Sky Vanderburg, Chris Pumill, Adam Barnett, Rachel Feder, and Joe Plaksin.

PubMed from the Program

This week’s pubmed from the program goes to Peter Hu for "Efficacy and Safety of Apixaban Compared With Warfarin in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation and Peripheral Artery Disease: Insights From the ARISTOTLE Trial." Peter T. Hu, MD; Renato D. Lopes, MD, PhD, MHS; Susanna R. Stevens, MS; Lars Wallentin, MD, PhD; Laine Thomas, PhD; John H. Alexander, MD, MHS; Michael Hanna, MD; Basil S. Lewis, MD; Freek W. A. Verheugt, MD, PhD; Christopher B. Granger, MD; W. Schuyler Jones, MD. (J Am Heart Assoc . 2017;6:e004699. DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.116.004699.)

Have a great week, stay safe and stay warm!

Aimee

Clinic Corner: VA PRIME Clinic

Contributed by Sonal Patel, MD

Welcome to our new front desk MSAs, Destiny Gilchrist and Latasha Alston! Our clinics at the VA were open for our first snow storm of the season.  Thanks to everyone that came in and kept our clinic running.   

Just a few reminders:

Please continue to communicate with your PRIME team regarding any issues with following up either due to vacation or a busy rotation.

We are still trying to work on continuity so please use your team grids that show what weeks you or your team are available and “green.”

The return to clinic orders have changed to include a CID (Clinically indicated date) and a No later than date.  You are only required to place a  CID date, please use the date of the week that correlates to when you or  a team member is “green” and in clinic.  If you need to enter a No later than date please guide the staff regarding this. 

PRIME Psych referrals require a consult for a new patient visit into PRIME Psych.  A text order no longer suffices.  The patient will then be called later and scheduled for first appointment in PRIME Psych by the mental health schedulers, not at our front desk.

Trouble finding ICD-10 codes?  Use icd10data.com.  Or ask Siri, “What’s the ICD-10 code for pharyngitis?”  (This works!)

Thanks everyone.

From the Chief Residents

Morning Report and MGR: January 23-27, 2017
Date Topic Lecturer Time Location
1/23/17

ERSD

Myles Wolf, MD

 7:15 a.m. DUH 8253
1/24/17

Headache

Tim Collins, MD

 7:15 a.m.

DUH 8253
1/25/17

Chronic Pain

Larry Greenblatt, MD

 7:15 a.m. DUH 8253
1/26/17

Case Presentation

Katie Charles to Harvey Cohen

 7:15 a.m. DUH 8253
1/27/17

Medicine Grand Rounds

 Michael Felker, MD 8:00 a.m. DUH 2002

 

Noon Conference: January 23-27, 2017
Date Topic Lecturer Time Location Lunch
1/23/17

Interview

 

 12:00 p.m. DUH 8253

Bull Street
1/24/17

A Personal Journey

Tony Galanos, MD

 12:00 p.m. DUH 2002

Domino's
1/25/17 Peripheral Vascular Disease

Schuyler Jones

 12:00 p.m.

DUH 2002

 Subway
1/26/17

Bugs, Drugs and New Strategies to Improve Treatment

Chris Hostler, MD, and Christina Sarubbi

 12:00 p.m.

DUH 2001

 Mediterra
1/27/17

Chair's Conference/Research Seminar Series

Landon Brown/Robert Lefkowitz, MD

 11:30 a.m./12:00 p.m. DUH 2002 Nosh

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.

 
 
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.

 
Faculty-Resident Research Grant

We are pleased to invite you to apply for the 2017 annual “Faculty-Resident Research Grant” applications. The applications are due on April 9, 2017 for a funding start date on July 1, 2017. For JARs, the funding end date is June 30, 2018. For Interns, the funding end date is June 30, 2019

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 2017. For any questions, 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/

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

  • 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

  • ​February 23 - JAR Fellowship/Career Networking Night at Dr. Klotman's House

  • March 3 - Charity Auction at Motorco

  • March 17 - Match Party Celebration at Tyler's Taproom

  • April 9 - Deadline for Faculty-Resident Research Grant

Opportunities

Useful links

 

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