Internal Medicine Residency News, Nov. 6, 2017

Clinic Corner: DOC

Contributed by Lynn Bowlby

Hi all!

Town Hall on Thursday Noon conference! Bring your questions, concerns, suggestions..anything! 12:15-1 p.m., we will even give you all lunch! Ha!

New at the DOC-but come Thursday to hear more.

1. Valerie Keck, NP, joins us Wed, with experience at a large clinic in Greensboro! She will join HIDOC  with Laurie, for more onsite medical care for our patients!
2. Physical Therapy now 3 sessions/week, Mon PM and Tues/ Thurs AM. Misty and Marissa will see pts same day or ok to double book patients in.
3. 2 Med Psych attendings, Jake Feigal is with us a few sessions /week, and will see psych pts like Greg Brown will.
4. Late patients—we are trying to see all late patients, esp those less than 40 min late. You may not see your patient who is late, but we will figure out someone who will!
5. Remember how to find the meds we have on site at the DOC? I had forgotten my self. See the tips attached from Holly!

Thanks for all you do for our patients at the DOC!

And see you Thursday!

Lynn and team!

From the Chief Residents

 

 

Morning Report and MGR: Nov. 6-10, 2017

Date	Topic	Lecturer	Time	Location
11/6/17	LFT Abnormalities Cases	Steve Choi	7:15 a.m.	DUH 8262
11/7/17	Depression and Anxiety for the PCP	Paul Riordan	7:15 a.m.	Pickett Road Clinic
11/8/17	Case Presentation	Christopher Pumill to Kenneth Lyles	7:15 a.m.	DUH 8252
11/9/17	Pulmonary Hypertension	Talal Dahan	7:15 a.m.	DUH 8252
11/10/17	Medicine Grand Rounds: Can Financial Engineering Cure Cancer?	Roger Stein, PhD	8:00 a.m.	Great Hall, Trent Semans

 

Noon Conference: Nov. 6-10, 2017

Date	Topic	Lecturer	Time	Location	Lunch
11/6/17	Medicine Interviews		12:15 p.m.	DUH 8252	Parker and Otis
11/7/17	Tuberculosis	Jason Stout	12:15 p.m.	DUH 2002	Domino's
11/8/17	Medicine-Pediatrics Interviews		12:15 p.m.	DUH 2002	Parker and Otis
11/9/17	All Ambulatory Town Hall: DOC in DUH 2002, PRIME DUH 8252, Pickett DUH 8262		12:15 p.m.		Popeyes
11/10/17	Chair's Conference	Claire Smith with interviewees	11:30 a.m.	DUH 2002	Bull Street

 

 

Duke Gen Med Conference Schedule: Nov. 6-9, 2017

Date	Topic	Lecturer	Time
11/6/17	Resident Report - Case Report with Interviewees Signout	Megan Dupuis Joseph Rogers	1 p.m. 6:30 p.m.
11/7/17	Resident Report	Joe Govert	1:15 p.m.
11/8/17	Resident Report - Room 8262 Intern Report	Aimee Zaas Joseph Rogers	1:15 p.m. 3 p.m.
11/9/17	Resident Report Intern Report - hyponatremia management	Jon Bae Dr. Black	1:15 p.m. 3 p.m.

From the Residency Office

 

 

Survey on Coaching Program

Hello Interns! Please be on the lookout later today for a survey from RedCap about the Coaching Program. Once completed, you will be entered in a drawing to win local food/drink gift cards. Also, if you haven’t yet been able to connect with your coach, or just want to know a little more about the Coaching Program, click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ-dBV_4h1o&list=PLvJybtz5NTHvojKiwsSwMNhUN7UMiVKmi to hear from the founder of the program at Massachusetts General Hospital! As always, please send any questions to Elizabeth.Quesada@duke.edu or Karen.Steinhauser@duke.edu.

 

Check out The Scope (submitted by Jason Zhu)

The Scope is a weekly newsletter that goes out on Fridays and summarizes the best evidence-based medical research from the week in a few fun and easy-to-read sentences. You can check out this weeks email below and people can sign up, see prior issues, and learn more about it at www.medicinescope.com.

 

2018 Duke Health Annual Quality and Safety Call for Abstracts

All interested Duke Health and Duke affiliated health care professionals, including GME trainees and Duke Health professions students, are invited tosubmit projects for the poster session. 

The deadline for all abstract submissions is Mon., Nov. 27, 2017 by 5 p.m.

Abstracts may be submitted at this link: 2018qualityconferenceabstractsubmissionsite

For any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to Jonathan Bae, Cindy Gordon, or Margaret Sturdivant.

 

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

• Nov. 8 - IM Patient Safety and Quality Council

• Nov. 23 - Turkey Bowl!

• Dec. 9 - Department of Medicine Holiday Party

Opportunities

• Internal Medicine physician opportunity in Phoenix

• Tidelands Health

• https://www.phs.wakehealth.edu/public/edu.cfm

• www.FloridayPhysicianWork.com
• www.bidmc.org/CentersandDepartments/Departments/BIDHC
• http://www.careermd.com/employers/latestbulletins.aspx
• Fellowship Hall physician opportunity
• Duke Health Hospital Medicine Program

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