From the Director
Happy Monday everyone. Lots of good things happening – many residents presenting at national meetings these past few weeks including the American College of Rheumatology, the AASLD Meeting, and the American Heart Association meetings. Don’t forget to send us your abstract and presentation titles (send to Tia, Dr. Mitchell and me!).
We are looking forward to a guest presentation at noon conference today all the way from Portland OR – Dr. Andre Mansoor, the author of Frameworks in Internal Medicine will be zooming in to teach us about his many physical exam pearls. Should be a great talk.
Let’s all keep up with ThanksRx’ing our colleagues for great work. No better time than THANKSGIVING month to do this.
We look forward to hosting our JARs for a mini-retreat on Tuesday afternoon – thank you to our SARs for covering the teams for them.
Kudos
Kudos this week to SeaBass Franco and Matt Abbott for outstanding SAR talks, to Neesha Nama, fellow Jose Ruiz, Nathan Hirshman, Emory Buck, Harsh Patolia, Dennis Narcisse, Nancy Yang, Brittany Chapman and Stephanie Reyes for teaching our City of Medicine class, to Brandon Durant for outstanding transfers of care at the VA (from Dr Scott Robert), to former VA CRQS Govind Krishnan from Carter Devlin for MICU fellow support, to Matt Goodwin from Nicole Dussault for excellent work taking care of a very complex patient on VA nights, to Lauren Pinion for consolidating a lot of information on a complex patient and to Hope Glowacki for her help as a SAR (from Priyanka Reddy) and to Sriya Muralidiharan from Sam Dizon for amazing care of some sick pediatric patients. Also kudos to our my takers Nandita Singh, Harrison Matthews, Harsh Patolia, Allison Taylor, Peggy Sahu and Hayley Cunningham and our pre interview dinner teams of Surya Patel, Jon Kusner, Nandita Singh, Anand Shah, Audrey Zhang, Sukrit Jain, Karina Mora Massad, Hayley Cunningham, Sunny Chung, Sachi Oshima, Nicole Dussault, Sarah Morgan, Sarah Moserowitz, Forrest Gamble, Gregg Robbins-Welty, Sunny Chung and Sean Taasan!
Pubmed from the Program
This weeks pubmed from the program goes to Jo Cavalier for her presentation at the American Heart Association Meeting with co-authors Rahul Loungani and Michael Khouri!
Cavalier, J, et al. Red Flag Comorbid Conditions That Are Easily Extracted From the Electronic Health Record Often Precede Diagnosis of Cardiac Amyloidosis by Years
Have a great week!
Aimee
Med Res Team Office Calendar
From the Chief Residents
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/15/21 |
Abdominal Pain |
Dr. Peyser | 7:15 a.m. | Zoom |
| 11/16/21 | Alcohol Use Disorder | Dr. Brown | 7:15 a.m. | Zoom |
| 11/17/21 | Case Presentation | Dr. Bader | 7:15 a.m. | Zoom |
Academic Half Day: November 19th, 2021
| Thread | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rheum/Renal/Endo/ID/GI/GIM |
Colorectal cancer screening GI Bleeding |
Dr. Wolf Dr. Vance |
9 a.m. 10:30 a.m. |
VA Surgery Conference Room C5010 |
| Card/Heme/Pulm/Onc |
Precision oncology/genetic testing Atrial Fibrillation |
Dr. Dzimitrowicz Dr. Arps |
9 a.m. 10:30 a.m. |
VA Medicine Conference Room C8016 |
| Date | Inpatient Topic on Zoom | Lecturer | Time | Location | Lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/15/21 | Physical Diagnosis | Dr. Mansoor | 12 p.m. |
Zoom/in-person |
Guasaca |
| 11/16/21 |
Medicine LEADS: Understanding Why - The Root Cause Analysis Process: An Overview and Simulation |
Noppon Setji, MD Associate Professor of Medicine Jennifer Phillips Site Director, DUHS Clincal Risk Management Vonda Capps Nurse Manager, Operation
|
12 p.m. |
Zoom |
Chubby's Tacos |
| 11/17/21 |
SAR Talk: EKG's |
Dr. Andreae | 12 p.m. | Zoom/in-person | Mediterra |
Report Conference Schedule: November 15-19, 2021
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/08/21 |
VA JAR CAT Duke SAR Report - held in 2253 MS2 Teaching - held in 8262 |
Dr. Barrett with Dr. Simel Dr. Ali with Dr. Kussin ACR |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
| 11/09/21 |
VA JAR Case Report Duke SAR Report - held in 2253 VA Intern Case Report Duke Intern Case Report |
Dr. Abdulrahim with Dr. Zaas Dr. Cabezas with Dr. Govert Dr. Franco with Dr. Kusner Dr. Townsend with Dr. McNeil |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
| 11/10/21 |
VA JAR CAT Duke SAR Report - held in 8262 |
Dr. Ramaker with Dr. Povsic Dr. Rabe with Dr. Zaas |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. |
| 11/11/21 |
JAR Case Report ACR Equity Report - held in 2253 Duke Intern Report |
Dr. Goodwin with Dr. Patel Dr. Hirshman Dr. Ramchal |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
From the Residency Office
Our Wellbeing
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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