From the Director
Monday! Busy week for the @IMResidencyDuke – we have two SAR talks (Steve Pappas and Godefroy Chery - schedule and Zoom links below) as well as a Chair’s Conference by Vinay Choksi coming up for the “noon zooms.”
On Friday, Medicine Grand Rounds (at noon) is our IM Residency Research Day featuring Adrian Clark-Randall, Qasim Hussaini and Becca Lumsden as well as 30 virtual posters!.
Kudos
Kudos this week go to Govind Krishnan for a fantastic SAR talk and to Chester Kao for his awesome Chair’s Conference (and Sara Coles for getting the diagnosis). Also kudos to Tim Hopper from Hayley Cunningham for dedicated care to a patient with very great needs, to Felicia Cao and Casey Howe from Madhu Eluri and Saumil Chudgar (who also gives kudos to Madhu) for being outstanding patient advocates, and to Rachel Tobin from the DRH nursing crew for outstanding work and communication.
PubMed from the Program
This week’s pubmed from the program goes to our poster presenters at the upcoming very first virtual poster walk for the IM Residency! Many thanks to our outstanding DOM mentors as well.
Have a great week,
Aimee
Clinic Corner: PRIME
Contributed by Leigh Wynkoop and Sonal Patel
PRIME continues remote telemedicine visits and we appreciate also the residents who are serving as surrogate coverage for VA alerts for those on inpatient rotations at Duke and DRH. Our Veterans have expressed thanks for the phone visits. We have been able to address most needs via phone with a few face-to-face visits arranged at the Hillandale Road site for patients who screen as COVID negative. Stable patients with possible COVID symptoms are being triaged by phone to the VA tent right outside our clinic for COVID testing. We’ve been able to loop in mental health for those whose psychiatric problems are flaring due to the pandemic. We don’t yet have any anticipated timeline for reopening clinics here as there are many decisions above us to be made by the facility. It’s very quiet here and we miss seeing each of our residents.
From the Chief Residents
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/20/20 |
Osteoporosis |
Ken Lyles, MD | 9 a.m. | Zoom |
| 5/22/20 |
Medicine Grand Rounds: Resident Research Presentations and Califf Medicine Research Awards |
Becca Lumsden, MD; Qasim Hussaini, MD; |
12 p.m.
|
Zoom |
Academic Half Day: May 22, 2020 via Zoom
| Thread | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rheum/Renal/Endo |
Complications from steroids Hematuria/Proteinuria |
Jonathan Velez-Rivera and Jay Doss David Ortiz-Melo |
9:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m. |
Zoom |
| ID/GI/GIM |
Atypical Infections and Zoonoses HIV/STD
|
Micah McClain Kristen Dicks |
9:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m. |
Zoom |
| Card/Heme/Pulm/Onc |
Side Effects of Common Therapeutics EKG's |
April Salama Thomas Bashore |
9:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m.
|
Zoom |
| Date | Inpatient Topic on Zoom | Outpatient Topic | Time | Location | Lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5/18/20 |
SAR Talk: Metabolic Syndrome Pathophysiologic Principles and Treatment Paradigms by Steve Pappas |
CoreIM Podcast: 5 Pearls on Barrett's Esophagus |
12:15 p.m. |
-- |
Sazon |
| 5/19/20 |
SAR Talk: Acute Renal Failureby Godefroy Chery |
See inpatient conference |
12:15 p.m. |
-- |
Happy and Hale |
| 5/20/20 |
Chair's Conference by Vinay Choksi |
See Morning Report schedule above |
12:15 p.m. |
-- |
Chick-fil-A |
| 5/21/20 | MEN Syndromes and Insulinomas with Dr. Ali Qamar |
Curbsiders Podcast: Valvular Heart Disease, Anticoagulation, TAVR, and primary care |
12:15 p.m. |
-- |
Cosmic Cantina |
| 5/22/20 | Resident Research Day at Medicine Grand Rounds |
|
12 p.m. |
-- |
Jason's Deli |
Report Conference Schedule: May 18-21, 2020
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5/18/20 |
Joint JAR/SAR CAT (via Zoom) |
-- |
1:15 p.m. |
| 5/19/20 |
DUH SAR Report - in person, Room 8262 Intern Report with Aaditya Khatri |
-- -- |
1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
| 5/20/20 |
Joint JAR/SAR Report (via Zoom) |
-- |
1:15 p.m. |
| 5/21/20 |
Intern Report |
-- |
2:30 p.m. |
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.
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/
Opportunities
Useful links
- ACR Teach Blog
- 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