Internal Medicine Residency News, October 17, 2016

From the Director

A great weekend for Turkey Bowl practice! Glad to see Ani Kumar kicking off the trash talk (even if he was making fun of Med Res News). Hope everyone had a chance to be outdoors at least for a little bit. 

Survey says!

We started our first round of coach training for the Faculty Resident Coaching Program on Friday with guest Kerri Palamara McGrath from MGH, with two more sessions happening this afternoon! For those of you who were able to make it to her noon conference, she gave an overview of the program for residents. Today, you should be receiving your Coach Preference Form. Please take the time to fill this out—we can do a much better job matching you with your coach if you give us some information. This does coincide with the 2016 Engagement Survey as well. We hate to crowd your inbox but both of these are really important and take just a few minutes to fill out.  Thanks to those who have already completed the Engagement Survey, and in advance for those who plan to fill it out ASAP.

Noon Conference

I am almost done compiling the Noon Conference attendance data from September, and I will be sending out the reports this week to you all and to the rotation directors so that they can see how well they are doing at encouraging and supporting attendance from the various rotations. Don’t forget to sign in with Tia so that the data is accurate.

Get your running shoes ready for the Stead Tread 5K (rain date!) this weekend! It’s not too late to sign up.

Kudos

Kudos this week to Chris Henderson from a patient and his family for outstanding care, and to Liz Gunnar Hoffman and Lauren Sharan from Lakshmi Krishnan for great work on 9100, as well as to Maggie Infeld for a fantastic SAR talk.

PubMed from the Program

This week’s Pubmed from the Program goes to our Stead Grant recipients and their mentors: Helen Zhang (Mehri McKellar), Stephen Kimani (Peter Kussin), Zach Il’Giovine (Zainab Samad), Megan Dupuis (Yubin Kang), Landon Brown (Julia Scialla), AJ Blood (Richard Krasuski), Ankeet Bhatt (Rob Mentz), and Anubha Agarwal (Nathan Thielman). Thank you to the Stead Scholarship Fund for their generous support and also our reviewers, as well as Murat Arcasoy for coordinating the submissions, review and mentorship!

Have a great week,

Aimee

Clinic Corner: Pickett Road

September and October have brought a lot of change. We said good bye to our Pediatrics colleagues and our lab. Our nursing staff has stepped up and taken over the phlebotomy and lab processing. Residents will be improving our microscopy skills to the lab to look at our own wet preps, urines and skin samples. We welcomed Dr. Cecily Pederson to the outpatient world as well; we look forward to having her precept in January 2017. We celebrated Purple for Platelets September 30th. A team went to the PNC arena for the Triangle heart walk. We are wearing pink pins and using pink pens for October Breast Cancer Awareness and will celebrate Mammogram Day October 21.

From the Chief Residents

Morning Report and MGR: October 17-21, 2016
Date Topic Lecturer Time Location
10/17/16

Smoking Cessation

James Davis

 7:15 a.m. DUH 8253
10/18/16

Case Report

Harvey Jay Cohen

 7:15 a.m.

DUH 8253
10/19/16

Case report

Ken Lyles

 7:15 a.m. DUH 8253
10/20/16

Depression

Greg Brown

 7:15 a.m. DUH 8253
10/21/16

Medicine Grand Rounds: Virtual environment for chronic disease management – Diabetes as an exemplar

Allison Vorderstrasse, D.N.Sc.

 8:00 a.m. DUH 2002

 

Noon Conference: October 17-21, 2016
Date Topic Lecturer Time Location Lunch
10/17/16

MKSAP: H/O

Louis Diehl & Aparna Swaminathan

 12:00 p.m. DUH 2002 Dominos
10/18/16

SAR Lecture Series: Approach to the Anemic Patient

Rachel Hu

 12:00 p.m. DUH 2002

Picnic Basket
10/19/16

Life as a physician: Experiences from a panel

Peter Kussin, Dani Zipkin

 12:00 p.m.

DUH 2002

 Chick-Fil-A
10/20/16

Outpatient management of sickle cell disease

JJ Strouse

 12:00 p.m.

DUH 2001

 Rudino's
10/21/16

Chair's Conference

David Beavers

 12:00 p.m. DUH 2002 Firehouse Subs

From the Residency Office

Call for Abstracts: 2017 Duke Health Patient Safety & Quality Conference

The 12th Annual Duke Health Patient Safety and Quality Conference will be held on March 23, 2017 at the Durham Convention Center, Durham, NC. All interested Duke Health and Duke affiliated health care professionals including GME trainees and Duke health professions students are invited to submit applications in the form of an abstract submission for the conference poster session highlighting their safety and quality-related projects. All projects must be submitted in the traditional abstract format to be eligible for the poster session and abstract contest. Select posters may be invited to present from the podium during a concurrent session. Use this link to submit your abstract: PSQconferenceabstractsubmission

 
ACP National Abstract Competitions

The American College of Physicians will be holding a National Abstract Competition as part of the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting 2017. The meeting will take place March 30 - April 1, 2017 in San Diego, California.

Abstracts are divided into five categories:

  • Basic Research
  • Clinical Research
  • Quality Improvement-Patient Safety
  • High Value Care
  • Clinical Vignette

Both Medical Student Members and Resident/Fellow Members are encouraged to submit. A first author may submit two abstracts to the Clinical Vignette category, and one abstract to each of the Research categories.

Login to the ACP Abstracts Portal using your ACP user name and password.

 
Opportunities for Wellness

Feeling down? Need to talk to someone? 

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/

Office hours for program leaders

Please feel free to stop by during these times and of course always feel free to reach out to program leaders to set up a meeting outside of these times if needed.

  • Aimee Zaas: Thursday, 10-11 a.m.

Upcoming Dates and Events

  • October 20 - Recruitment Kickoff Party, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at Gonza Tacos y Tequila
  • October 22 - Stead Tread 5K Fun Run (Kempner Society)

  • November 24 - Turkey Bowl

  • December 7 - Fellowship Match

Opportunities

Useful links

 

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