Internal Medicine Residency News, March 14th, 2022

From the Director

Chief Takeover of Residency News - Round 2

The boss is away for vacation this week, so the Chiefs get the opportunity to pass out the kudos and hype to the program yet again. We can’t believe it’s March already, and believe it or not we will have a new intern class THIS FRIDAY FOR MATCH DAY!! Current interns get hype because you are only a few months away from handing the baton (aka pager) over to the new group. How will you celebrate?? Be sure to tune in to Dr. Zaas’ special Match Day Medicine Grand Rounds this week at 8 am on 3/18!

Some other exciting events this week. Today is Pi Day and while we are not having another pie eating contest, you can still enjoy endless amounts of pi(e) on your own! (*dad joke alert*)

We have our annual IM Residency March Madness Bracket Challenge starting this week. This year we are raising money to donate to local charity with the challenge. Sign up here: Duke IM Bracket Challenge

DUKE IT OUT  - This Thursday 3/17 @ 12pm - The 2nd annual DUKE IT OUT teaching competition. Hosted by the one and only, current DUH ACR and future DRH/Ambulatory Chief Resident Dr. Ann Cameron Barr! Please tune in to support Ann Cameron, the competitors (Drs. Hannah Florian, Sith Sekar and Sean Taasan) and their coaches (Drs. Laura Caputo, John Roberts and Jenny Van Kirk) and fill out this brief survey in advance: https://duke.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6hwKaRZIx7YKtFk  

Here is a photo to prove we love working together:

Kudos

Rohit Nair from neuro team for stepping up and covering the service when not assigned, Emily Romanoff, Hannah Schwennesen, and Shivy Chandramouli for excellent leadership and teamwork at a long patient code on the floor. To Hannah Florian for arranging DOC’s mobile lab visits while on a busy VA CCU service and bringing high energy on call. Kudos to Maxine Chan for crushing cost effectiveness and teaching us all at JAR CAT from Mike Cosiano. To Sunny Chung and Felicia Cao for catching a posterior STEMI at the VA and getting them the appropriate care from future chief Lonnie Sullivan. To Matt Townsend for receiving a Gold Star award and for recent abstract selection for oral presentation. To Matt Abbott from Nijat Aliyev and Felicia Cao for excellent CCU consults and care. To Carolyn Ahlers from Shivy Chandramouli for crushing 9300. To Sarah Morgan from Ann Cameron Barr for helping out at the DOC. To Nandita Singh from Aman Kansal for round the clock consideration of care for veterans. To Courtney Dominguez & Sidney Barrau from Emory Buck for always updating their veteran’s families! To Apurva Khedagi from Aubrie Carroll for dominating VA GM. To Shannon Herndon from Emilio Guzman Cisneros for VA GM care. To Apurva Khedagi, Daniel Travis and Erin Hercules from Nijat Aliyev for having their VA teams well tucked-in! To Priyanka Reddy from Bari Rosenburg for stepping in to cover MICU call. Additional kudos from Bari Rosenburg to Sarah Moserowitz and Lynette Staplefoote-Boynton for being awesome MICU co-JARs. To Forrest Gamble from Nijat Aliyev for staying late to help a sick veteran. To Matt Labs from Fouad Chouairi, Sara Barlow and Sachi Oshima for sending the interns home early and helping with admissions. Can’t believe Labs didn’t step in to point out Fouad gave these tacos in the general slack thread! Also kudos to Fouad for expanding our vocabulary to consider using the word panache more often  - please see both definitions below.

 

Pubmed from the Program

Hot off the press paper by Chief Jess Regan and Jawan Abdulrahim

Regan JA, Abdulrahim JW, Bihlmeyer NA, Haynes C, Kwee LC, Patel MR, Shah SH. Phenome-Wide Association Study of Severe COVID-19 Genetic Risk Variants. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022;11(5):e024004. PM: 35179038.

 

 

Med Res Team Office Calendar

From the Chief Residents

 
 
Morning Report: March 15-17, 2022 via Zoom
Date Topic Lecturer Time Location
03/15/22

Case Report

Sean Taasan 7:15AM Zoom
03/16/22 Fatigue Bruce Peyser 7:15AM Zoom
03/17/22 Perioperative Medicine Faye Farber 7:15AM Zoom

 

Academic Half Day: March 18, 2022
 
Thread Topic Lecturer Time Location
Rheum/Renal/Endo/ID/GI/GIM

Visual Thinking Strategies

Jenny Van Kirk

9 AM

10:30AM

VA Surgery Conference Room C5010
Card/Heme/Pulm/Onc

Visual Thinking Strategies

Jenny Van Kirk

9 AM

10:30AM

VA Medicine Conference Room C8016

 

Noon Conference: March 14-18, 2022
Date Inpatient Topic on Zoom Lecturer Time Location Lunch
03/14/22 SAR Talk: Pancreatitis Dr. Erin Song 12 PM

Zoom

Piper's In the Park
03/15/22 LEADS: A Mysterious Case of Recurrent Muscle Cramping

Tyler Couch, MD
PGY-3, Internal Medicine Residency Program 
 
John Roberts, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Nephrology
 

12 PM

Zoom

Mediterra

03/16/22

SAR Talk: ABGs

Dr. Zach Lorsch

12 PM

Zoom

Chick-fil-A
03/17/22

Duke It Out

Dr. Hannah Florian
Dr. Sean Taasan
Dr. Sith Sekar

12 PM

Zoom

Chubby's Tacos
03/18/22 Grand Rounds:From Match Day Forward: Reflections, Lessons and Career Defining Moments (at 8AM)

Lia Logio, MD, MACP, FRCP
John L. Caughey Jr. MD Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Medical Education
Vice Dean for Medical Education at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Member, Duke Internal Medicine Residency Alumni Council

Chris Cabell, MD, MHS
Senior Vice President, Head of Clinical Development at Emergent BioSolutions
Founder of HD Consulting Services
Member, Duke Internal Medicine Residency Alumni Council

8 AM

Zoom

Itaewon Grill
 
 
 
Report Conference Schedule: March 14-17, 2022
Date Topic Lecturer Time
03/14/22

VA JAR CAT

Duke SAR Report - held in 2253

MS2 Report - held in 8262

Dr. Craig w/ Dr. Simel

Dr. Stavig w/ Dr. Van Kirk

Student Teaching w/ ACR

11 AM
 

1:15 PM
 

2:30 PM

03/15/22

VA JAR Case Report
 

Duke SAR Report - held in 2253 

VA Intern Case Report


Duke Intern Case Report - held in 2253

Dr. Taylor w/ Dr. Boggan

Dr. Nama w/ Dr. Govert

Dr. Schneider & Dr. Acevedo

Intern G-Brief w/ Dr. Galanos

11 AM
 

1:15 PM
 

1:30 PM
 

2:30 PM

03/16/22

VA JAR CAT 

Duke SAR Report - held in 8262

Dr. Gamble w/ Dr. Shah

Dr. Howe w/ Dr. Zaas

11 AM
 

1:15 PM

03/17/22

Med Surge Conference


Duke SAR Report - held in 2253


VA Intern Case Report


Duke Intern Case Report



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Burt & Boggan
 

Student teaching w/ Faculty 
 

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7:30 AM

 

1:15 PM

 

1:30 PM



2:30 PM

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/

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