From the Director
OUCH! Daylight savings time hurts, unless you were working overnight on the shortest night of the year. This week also brings us MATCH WEEK – very much looking forward to learning who our awesome new interns are and celebrating with everyone on Friday. Be on the look out for the March Madness brackets as well!
This week should open our ACGME survey – you will receive an email from Lynsey that gives you instructions on how to access your link to the survey. While the link is personal, the results are 100% anonymous. Thanks in advance for your participation.
Kudos
Kudos this week go to Leah Machen for her excellent SAR talk as well as Mike Grant for an fantastic chair’s conference with faculty discussants Jennifer Perkins and Murat Arcasoy. Other kudos come from Amy Lee to Shannon Niedermeyer, Petra Brayo, Katie Wood and Anmol Singh for hard work and care of very complex patients during the day and overnight on VA Gen Med, to Matt Tucker and Filley Howe from Matt Labriola for their support of patients, families and the teams in the face of a very, very sick MICU, and to Bryan Golubski, Melodi Whitley, Juan Magana and Manisha Bhattacharya from Kara Wegermann for their care of multiple patients with very complicated liver disease, as well as from Kara to Kyle Guerink, Claudia Leung, Martin Weiss and Tanya Aylward for excellent care of more patients on the hepatology service. Also kudos to Kyle Geurink for being a great partner, Manisha Bhattacharya for adding insightful questions to our patient's overall care plan, as well as a belated kudos to Juan Magana, Landon Brown, and Kelly Ground for running at tight ship in the VA MICU – from Bryan Golubski.
PubMed from the Program
This week’s pubmed from the program goes to Wynn Hunter for his interview in a round table discussion on price transparency and it’s impact on healthcare costs in “Leadership,” a publication of the Healthcare Financial Management Association http://www.hfma.org/Templates/leadership/Content.aspx?Pageid=28003&id=59517.
Have a great (MATCH) week!
Aimee
Clinic Corner: Pickett Road
Contributed by Sharon Rubin
Pickett Road is sad to see Dr. Audrey Metz leave for Executive Health this week. She has done great work as a resident here and as an attending. Her patients will miss her the most. She was a wonder teacher for the resident clinic. We wish her the best of luck with her new position!
We have had fun events these past few months. February was Heart Disease awareness month, and staff had opportunities to dress in red. Yoga has been going strong and our next event is Friday, March 30, which is open to anyone interested. Just bring your yoga mat for the 5:30 class taught by our DPC Depression care manager Zia Ward. Friday, March 9, was Cereal Day and we celebrated with a flashback to childhood breakfast. On March 12, we will be celebrating national Pie Day with assortment of pies at our all-staff meeting. We have almost completed the 22 photos and video interviews for all the residents here to be seen on the Duke Health website. Many of the residents are completing this on their LEAD week, in addition to learning population health and strategies for depression from our care managers. We are looking forward to spring and planting vegetables and plants in our Pickett Road Gardens.
From the Chief Residents
Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
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3/12/18 |
Anticoagulation |
Murat Arcasoy |
7:15 a.m. | DUH 8252 |
3/13/18 | HIV/PrEP | Mehri McKellar | 7:15 a.m. |
Pickett Road |
3/14/18 |
Anxiety/Substance Use Disorder |
Jake Feigal | 7:15 a.m. | DUH 8252 |
3/15/18 |
Case Presentation |
John David Ike and Ken Lyles | 7:15 a.m. | DUH 8252 |
3/16/18 |
Medicine Grand Rounds: Chronic Myeloid Leukemia in the Era of Targeted Therapies: Can We Cure Disease? |
Lindsay Rein, MD |
8 a.m. | DUH 2002 |
Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location | Lunch |
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3/12/18 |
Medicine Jeopardy |
IM Chiefs |
12:10 p.m. |
DUH 2002 | Domino's |
3/13/18 |
Dialysis |
Michael Berkoben |
12:10 p.m. | DUH 2002 |
Firehouse Subs |
3/14/18 |
Approach to Rheumatology Labs |
Ankoor Shah |
12:10 p.m. |
DUH 2002 |
Jason's Deli |
3/15/18 |
Vasculitis for the Internist |
Nancy Allen |
12:10 p.m. |
DUH 2002 |
Chick-fil-A |
3/16/18 |
Chair's Conference |
Todd Brophy |
12:10 p.m. |
DUH 2002 |
Bullock's |
Duke Gen Med Conference Schedule: March 12-16, 2018
Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time |
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3/12/18 |
SAR Report Chair's Sign outs |
Courtney Lamberton to Bill Hargett |
1:15 p.m. 6 p.m. |
3/13/18 |
SAR Report |
Megan Gillum to Joe Govert |
1:15 p.m. |
3/14/18 |
SAR Report Intern Report |
Kevin Smith to Aimee Zaas Joe Lerman to Dr. Holland |
1:15 p.m. 3 p.m. |
3/15/18 |
SAR Report/QI Conference Intern Hospitalist Series - Syncope |
Manisha Bhattacharya to Dr. Setji Dr. Feeney |
1:15 p.m. 3 p.m. |
From the Residency Office
Program for Women in Internal Medicine Social Event
The Program for Women in Internal Medicine (PWIM) will host a social even on Thursday, March 29, from 4-7 p.m., at the University Club (3100 Tower Blvd, 17th floor). Join us for food and drinks to welcome the new Chair and Housestaff Liaison for PWIM! RSVP by March 15 to kimberly.dorman@duke.edu.
Resident Wellness Initiative Grants
Resident Wellness Initiative Grants for resident-led, innovative projects are dedicated to promote the well-being of our residents, which is of utmost importance to our Program.
The proposed initiatives may be designed to promote resident physician wellness by building skills to handle the challenges and the pace of the current healthcare environment, while continuing to provide quality care to patients.
- Two awards each $2,500/project will be funded
- Funding start date is July 1, 2018
- Each proposal must be led by one or more SARs (current JARs) during the 2018-2019 academic year. Extension of funding may be requested next year beyond June 30, 2019
- Teamwork is encouraged to include rising JARs and incoming interns. Multiple SARs may lead one project
- Faculty sponsor/advisor may be recruited but not required
- Additional funding for a larger award may be available depending on the level of interest and budgets of the project(s). The award committee will review and make a decision on each proposal.
- The 2-page proposals are due on June 1, 2018 for review by an award selection committee
- Applications forms are attached.
For any questions, please contact murat.arcasoy@duke.edu.
Califf Medicine Resident Research Award
The annual Califf Medicine Resident Research Award competition abstracts are due on April 30, 2018.Awards presentation will take place on May 18, 2018 between 7-9 a.m. in Searle Center Lecture Hall.
Abstracts (300 word) and supporting mentor's letter are due on April 30, 2018. All abstracts submitted for competition will also be presented as posters. The top 3 abstracts will be selected by a faculty committee for the Califf Research Awards and these research projects will be presented as 15 minute talks 8-9 a.m.
Two best poster awards will be selected (Research poster and QI poster) by the Chief Residents during the poster viewing session prior to Grand Rounds.
We invite all of you to present your scholarly activities as posters (we can send you poster templates):
- Basic, clinical, medical education, and translational research projects
- Case studies / vignettes including ACP posters from 2018
- QI projects
- Please plan on presenting your posters posters that you have presented previously at a national scientific meeting
To discuss any issues related to the application process or once you have decided to submit an abstract, please e-mail murat.arcasoy@duke.edu to declare your intention to submit, your research mentor's name and the title of your poster. Please contact the MedRes office staff (Ms. Tia Williams) for assistance with the poster preparation process.
GIM Resident Research Award
The Division of General Internal Medicine is pleased to announce the first annual GIM Resident Research Award! Please see details below. Applications will be accepted through March 30, 2018.
Eligibility:
Internal Medicine residents (categorical, medicine-pediatrics, medicine-psychiatry)
Research that was initiated during tenure as a resident
Submission Categories:
One award will be given annually. Submissions can be either:
Clinical Research
Quality Improvement
Submissions should be relevant to primary care, general internal medicine, or hospital medicine. Areas of focus can include patient-centered interventions, disparity populations, population management, systems evaluation or re-design, or health care policy.
Submissions should be under 800 words and should include:
- Name of primary investigator and co-investigators
- Name of other faculty mentors involved in the project
- Description of project including objectives, population, methods/intervention, and outcomes if available.
- Discussion of lessons learned, one paragraph
- Attach copies or links to any published abstracts or manuscripts related to the work
Please submit your materials to Robin Byrd, robin.byrd@duke.edu, via email attachment by March 30, 2018. Blinded committee review will take place in April.
The top selected projects will be invited to present their work at a DGIM research meeting in May 2018, to be announced. The winner of the top rated project will receive a $500 honorarium. We look forward to seeing your submissions!
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
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March 16 - Match Day!
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April 20 - Charity Auction at Motorco
Opportunities
- www.bidmc.org/CentersandDepartments/Departments/BIDHC
- http://www.careermd.com/employers/latestbulletins.aspx
- Fellowship Hall physician opportunity
- Duke Health Hospital Medicine Program
- Doctors Making House Calls
- FirstHealth Physician Group
- CompHealth
- Stanford University Clinical Excellence Research Center Design Fellowship
- Finity Group, LLC: Financial Planning Dinner Seminar for New Physicians, Feb. 28
Useful links
- 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