From the Director
We survived rolling out Maestro on the longest day of the year! Thank you so much to all of our residents, faculty and staff who made the 5 am rollout and the pre roll out downtime smooth! See some pictures of the early morning and the first day attached, including
Audrey Metz, Mallika Dhawan, Ashley Lane and John Greene as our night residents (thanks
Lish Clarke for helping out as our night hospitalist!).
MAESTRO CARE 2013
This is a week of transition, capped off by
Jeff Clarke's fantastic grand rounds and a chairs case by
Iris Vance. We enjoyed the "
JAR BQ" at our house, and also meeting our new interns and their families at Tobacco Road on Saturday night. They will be orienting on Mon-Thurs and shadowing on Friday! First day on the teams is Saturday!!!
So, one more huge thank you to our outgoing chiefs
Jeff, Jason, Nicole, Ryan and George. A well earned vacation is in order. Also thanks to our outgoing ACRs
Scott, Ryan and Nilesh! Welcome to Krish, Vaishali, Steve and Joel, as well as our incoming ACRs
Brian, Jenn and Carling! A final kudos of the year to
Allyson Pishko for helping a colleague and to our winners of the awards announced at Jeff's grand rounds:
- Outstanding Service Award: Amy Rosenthal, MD
- Fellow Teaching Award: Michael Durheim, MD
- Haskel Schiff Award: Nilesh Patel, MD
- Joseph McClellan Award: Jason Webb, MD
ERAS should actually open on 6/24 for all applying to fellowships this year. Please direct any questions to Bill and I.
This academic year's FINAL pubmed from the program goes to JEFF CLARKE! Clarke JM, Hurwitz HI. Targeted therapies: Ziv-aflibercept: binding to more than VEGF-A—does more matter? Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. 2013 Jan 10; 10-11.
It's a crazy and exciting time as we wind down one year and rapidly transition to the next. In all the whirlwind, it's easy to forget to stop and reflect a bit on what we've learned this year, on patients and families that have particularly impacted us, and on how much we've grown as physicians, and as people. As I watch you all take on your new roles as interns, JARs, SARs, fellows and attendings, it makes me so proud to see how you represent the very best of the Duke Medicine family and the Duke Medicine tradition. Here's to one fantastic year gone by and to another that is just beginning.
Have a great week, and a even better year
Aimee
Welcome - Chief Residents 2013-2014
A special thank you to our 2012-2013 Chiefs who have just completed an awesome year. We cannot thank you enough for all of your support, and we know you will continue to be forever part of our "family".
As we officially welcome the class of 2016, this is also the time to offically welcome the Chief Residents for this academic year (left to right: Stephen Bergin, MD - Chief Resident Durham Regional Hospital; Joel Boggan, MD - Chief Resident Quality and Patient Safety VA Hospital; Krish Patel, MD - Chief Resident Duke University Hospital; Vaishali Patel, MD - Chief Resident Durham VA Hospital. Over the coming weeks we will have a chance to get to know each member of our leadership team as they share their vision for the coming year and why they consider Duke Internal Medicine Residency to be the BEST training program in the country!
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What Did I Read This Week
(submitted by Aimee Zass, MD)
A Patient with Migrating Polyarthralgias" Casey JD, et al.
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Why Did I Read This: I was scanning the NEJM Table of Contents and it looked very interesting. I have tried to do the interactive medical cases when they are published and generally find them to be very high yield. Also, its a relatively busy week with exiting SARs and entering interns, so I figured a short distraction was ok, but not too much.
What Is It About: The interactive medical cases are multimedia online cases, probably similar to what you see in Step 3 (I am old enough to have "scan-tronned" Step 3, so what do I know?). You follow a patient through their presentation, look at the labs, the studies, etc. In this one, there is audio for heart sounds which is great.
What Did I Learn: I don't want to give away the diagnosis, but I will tell you that this a great case for teaching your students about murmurs and positioning to accentuate or decrease various murmurs.
If you haven't tried out these cases before, I'd recommend them. You can go back and search the old cases as well. The only caveat is that they don't work on an iPAD!
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From the Chief Residents
Grand Rounds
Date: June 28, 2013
The Annual "State of the Department of Medicine" Report
Mary E. Klotman, MD, Chair, Department of Medicine
Noon Conference
No regularly schedule noon conference during the week of June 24th, with the exception of the annual
TOM HOLLAND lecture, to be presented on
Thursday, June 27, in the 2002 conference room at 12:00.
Make a note to come early! This event is typically "standing room only"
Note: Lunch will be provided for residents only througout the week in Duke North. The location will be confirmed in the page that is sent out each day.
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From the Residency Office
Applications for Global Health Elective Rotations
The Hubert-Yeargan Center for Global Health (HYC) is accepting applications for Global Health Elective Rotations for July 2014 and March 2015.
Application is open to residents from the Departments of Medicine and Pediatrics: Internal Medicine (PGY 2); Med-Peds (PGY 3); Med-Psych (PGY 4); Pediatrics (PGY 2).
The application and FAQ sheet are attached and available at
http://dukeglobalhealth.org/education-and-training/global-health-elective-rotation.
Interviews will be held in late September/early October. For more information about this opportunity, contact
Tara Pemble, Program Coordinator at
tara.pemble@duke.edu or 668-8352.
Application Deadline: September 17, 2013
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Contact Information/Opportunities
Upcoming Dates and Events
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June 27: Tom Holland Annual Noon Conference
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