Internal Medicine Residency News, Aug. 14, 2017
Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Aug. 14, 2017.
Keeping a promise to patients with failing kidneys
Nephrologist Susan Gurley MD, PhD, is an eyewitness to the toll diabetes-related kidney disease takes on patients. As diabetic kidney disease becomes more common worldwide, the clinician-scientist wants to solve more biological mysteries surrounding how the damage starts and progresses. New treatment targets could follow.
Shoup selected 2018-19 VA chief resident for quality improvement and patient safety
John Paul Shoup, MD, senior assistant resident in the combined Medicine-Pediatrics residency training program, has been selected to serve as the Durham VA Medical Center chief resident for quality improvement and patient safety for 2018-19.
Faculty Spotlight: Jenny Van Kirk, MD
Jenny Van Kirk, MD, finished up her internal medicine residency at Duke and joined the DGIM faculty this July as Medical Instru
8/28/17: Forum on patients, practice and policy of opioid epidemic
Faculty and trainees are invited to attend "Take Our Pain Away: Patients, Practice and Policy of Opioid Epidemic," on Mon., Aug. 28 from 12-1:15 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Trent Semans Center.
Internal Medicine Residency News, Aug. 7, 2017
Catch up with the Duke Internal Medicine Residency Program by reading the weekly newsletter for Aug. 7, 2017.
New PDC members, July 2017
The following providers in the Department of Medicine joined the Private Diagnostic Clinic (PDC) in July, as reported by the PDC Physician I
Simel co-authors JAMA Rational Clinical Exam
David Simel, MD, co-authored a Rational Clinical Examination Systematic Review in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). The publication is entitled "Does This Child Have Pneumonia?" and was published August 1.