From the Director
Happy thanksgiving week to all! Many thanks to ResCo for bringing the #DukeFam spirit to all, to the SARs for covering for our JARs so we could have a great “JAR Time Out” mini-retreat on Tuesday and to our chiefs and team for bringing the HYPE with the holiday season HYPE calendar. In our unpacking, I found both the Hanukkah sweater that Dr Van Kirk bought me a few years ago AND the Cleveland Browns ugly sweater that is really Dave’s but has made a few appearances during IM Res holidy sweater week … so if you need a holiday sweater for holiday sweater day…well, look no further than your chance to rep the sad sad Cleveland Browns.
Please keep up with the THANKS-RX-athon! No better month than November to THANKS Rx your colleagues for the great work they do.
Kudos
Kudos this week to both Matt Pisarcik and Drew Vista from Kim Holzmacher (neuro NP) for amazing work caring for patients on the neuro service, to our my takers Hannah Schwennesen, Forrest Gamble, Sith Sekar, Daniel Travis, Emory Buck, and Ann Cameron Barr and our evening zoom teams of Mae Hamilton, Kaela Miller, Nicole Dussault, Anand Shah, Audrey Zhang, Sukrit Jain, Geargin Wilson, Aman Kansal, AD Khatri, Sarah Morgan, Dan Weinberg, Jackie Kercheval, Emory Buck, Priyanka Reddy, and Aubrie Carroll. Also many thanks to Emory Buck, Lauren Pinion and Courtney Dominguez and their partners for participating in the November “Sig Others” zoom! Other kudos to Andrew Andreae for a fantastic SAR talk, to (add slack here). Also kudos to our COM team for planning a great set of talks for our students: Brandon Durant, Omar Martinez-Uribe, Megan Barrett, Jon Kusner, Emmanuella Egbonim, Harsh Patolia and Lauren Pinion. And kudos to Kathryn Clary from Grace Lee for awesome work at DRH, Sam Dizon from Sriya Muralidiharan for teaching on a busy morning,, to Erin Hercules from Monroe Wolf for making an important diagnosis for a patient at the VA, to Pooja Patel from Emory Buck for helping get a patient seen at the DOC and to Emily Romanoff from Nandita Singh for helping her through her first week of VA GM (and cookies!).
Pubmed from the Program
This week’s pubmed from the program goes to Amber Meservey for her award winning abstract presentation at the CHEST annual meeting. Amber won the Alfred Soffer Research Awards for her abstract OUTCOMES OF PATIENTS ACROSS THE SPECTRUM OF PULMONARY HYPERTENSION GROUPS PRESCRIBED INHALED TREPROSTINIL with mentor Sudarshan Rajagopal.
HAPPY HAPPY THANKSGIVING. Go Marines! Go Jets! Go DukeFam!
Aimee
Med Res Team Office Calendar
From the Chief Residents
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/23/21 |
Pregnancy |
Dr. Bowlby | 7:15 a.m. | Zoom |
| 11/24/21 | Amb Town Hall - DOC | Dr. Yang | 7:15 a.m. | Zoom |
| 11/25/21 | No Morning Report |
Academic Half Day: November 26th, 2021
| Thread | Topic | Lecturer | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rheum/Renal/Endo/ID/GI/GIM |
No AHD |
|
9 a.m. 10:30 a.m. |
VA Surgery Conference Room C5010 |
| Card/Heme/Pulm/Onc |
No AHD |
|
9 a.m. 10:30 a.m. |
VA Medicine Conference Room C8016 |
| Date | Inpatient Topic on Zoom | Lecturer | Time | Location | Lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11/22/21 | SAR Talk: Acute Renal Failure | Dr. Hopper | 12 p.m. |
Zoom/in-person |
Piper's in the Park |
| 11/23/21 |
Medicine LEADS: Amyloidosis Updates |
Cristiana Costa Chase, MD |
12 p.m. |
Zoom |
Chick Fil A |
| 11/24/21 |
QI Conference |
Dr. Burt and Dr. Boggan | 12 p.m. |
Zoom/in-person |
Secrets |
| 11/25/21 |
THANKSGIVING |
|
12 p.m. |
Zoom/in-person |
Thanksgiving Meal |
| 11/26/21 | No Grand Rounds |
|
12 p.m. |
Zoom/in-person |
No lunch |
Report Conference Schedule: November 21-26, 2021
| Date | Topic | Lecturer | Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11/22/21 |
VA JAR CAT Duke SAR Report - held in 2253 MS2 Report - held in 8262 |
Dr. Romanoff with Dr. Simel Dr. Hirshman with Dr. McNeill ACR / Chief Resident |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
| 11/23/21 |
VA JAR Case Report Duke SAR Report - held in 2253 VA Intern Case Report Duke Intern Case Report - held in 2253 |
Dr. Herndon with Dr. Zaas Dr. Meservey with Dr. Govert Dr. Charles Dr. Chandramouli with Dr. Cohen |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 1:30 p.m. 2:30 p.m. |
| 11/24/21 |
VA JAR CAT Duke SAR Report - held in 8262 |
Dr. Mehta with Dr. McClain Dr. Chung with Dr. Zaas |
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. |
| 11/25/21 |
Thanksgiving |
|
11 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 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.
Employee Health has Expanded Hours!
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Feeling down? Need to talk to someone? Opportunities for Wellness
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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