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MAY HOUSESTAFF MEETINGMay 4th, 2011
Dr. Ridgway (Interim Chair)
Dr. Suzanne Brandenburg Annual ACGME survey coming up this
month Questions? Institutional site visit June 2011
Fellowship match timeline changed for next year No fellowship interviews next year Pushed back to fall of 2012
Thank you for all of your hard work!
Program Requirements 2010-2011 Residency Requirements
CEX 4 this academic year 2 in primary clinic 1 in OBMT, 1 on inpatient service CEX forms on the residency website
To be completed by both resident and preceptor Due May 1st, 2011
Hopkins Modules Back Pain, Immunizations, Professionalism:
Challenging Conversations and Encounters Due May 1st, 2011
Housestaff Association Updates from Noelle
Meal allowances will be allocated based on this year’s meal tickets as opposed to new shift calculations in order to avoid a decrease
ACP Associates Conference! Combined UCD/St. Joe’s Resident
meeting Presentation of Oral Clinical Unknown
Vignettes (guess the diagnosis!) Poster Presentations Judging, cash prizes for presenters Free Dinner and time to hang, socialize! Held at St. Joes, Tuesday June 7, 2010, 4-
9:30 PM
ACP Associates Conference! Congrats to UCD Presenters:
Steph Seiki Carrie Brown Rudy Kimmerling Erin Marcum Shabi Showell Ben Scheier Tracey Hansel Andrew Sweatt Alison Landrey Kirsten Regalia
Please RSVP to [email protected] Stay tuned for additional info by email…
Congratulations! Noelle Northcutt and Chi Zheng
Selected to receive the Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award
Nominated by third year medical students Also nominated from our program:
Eric Young, Maria Astiz, Christopher King, Brian Keogh, Zachary Reese, Jennifer Fraser, Mark Learned, and Rachael Dirksen
Email Accounts For residents leaving this year
Email accounts will terminate on 6/23/11 or 6/30/11 (Last day of employment)
No exceptions! Activate “Out of Office Assistant” a few
days before you leave Will be active for approximately 45 days
Contact Jennifer Weber if you have other questions!
Housekeeping Educational Funds
All receipts for any educational funds you plan to use must be turned into Jennifer Weber no later than May 20, 2011
For Continuing R1 and R2 residents VA paperwork and Mandatory Modules Training
need to be completed ASAP! If you took the mandatory training modules
after March 2010, you only need to take the Refresher Course
All forms/paperwork must be given to Kristy Zanao by May 13, 2011
Badging/Fingerprinting cannot be done unless the VA HR office has all the completed paperwork
Housekeeping Annual PPDs
Exiting residents can have PPD placed also
Pager Forwarding How is Pager Forwarding Going?
Planning for the Future Five Areas of Focus
Fellowship Interviews and Coverage No fellowship interviews 2011-2012
Interviews in Sept/Oct 2012 Resident task force to develop solutions?
Contact Nick Weber Categorical Resident Mentoring and
Curriculum Pathways will start next year New APD for research Dr. Schwartz
Recruiting faculty member for mentoring future physician scientists
See Tibor with other thoughts, suggestions
Planning for the Future Improved Program-Wide Communication
Housestaff meeting will be presented monthly at each site next year
Continued monthly emails from Dr. Brandenburg
See Tanner/Taylor with thought/suggestions Personal/Family Emergencies
Call CMR on call, your APD or Dr. Brandenburg We want to help!
Resident Appreciation and Feedback See Lindsey with thoughts/suggestions
Upcoming Events CMRs planning Rockies Outing!
Details will be coming soon… Residency Continuation Ceremony (AKA
Trivia Bowl) June 2nd 6:30 PM at the Wynkoop We are still looking for good stories, pictures,
etc! R1 to R2 Transition Day
June 3rd
Interns will be excused from clinical responsibilites
Upcoming Events R3 Graduation Ceremony
June 5th 6:00 PM at Maggiano’s Downtown Please RSVP to Kristy Zanao by May 27th
Intern Welcome Dinner June 22nd at Wash Park All residents invited!
Intern Orientation Interns will join teams at the site where they
will be starting
Duty Hours: April 30 hour rule:
Total of 11 University Ward, University Cardiology (1 at PSL!!)
80 hour rule: NONE!
10 hour rule: Much improved at University Cards 7 vs 21!
Days-off: 2 violations
Jeop-o-meter April: 5 shifts called
3 for capping (DG ICU, floor) 2 for family emergency
Thanks to those who served! Paul Allyn Kate Jennings Aaron Scott x2 days Matt Moles
REMINDERS: Call starts at 7! (thus pager and cell must be
on by that time…!) If called in, you are responsible to stay till 12pm
the next day, present pts
Jeop-o-meter “Percentage of Jeopardy Used”
3.3 % of total jeopardy coverage 10 % of R3 Short jeopardy coverage
“Percent of Teams that called jeopardy for cap” 5 services every day that could cap… “150 jeopardizeable days” 3 days, 3 teams
DH Wards 1 DH ICU 2
”our services exceeded cap 2 % of the time”
Shout-Outs For those who went above and beyond in
April… Dan Wells
Agreed to schedule change with call on June 22nd!
Matt Moles Kindly agreed to cover second jeopardy on
Easter weekend Jared Davis
Will cover a night shift in the DH MICU for R3 Graduation
Joe Sweigart Admitted for the DH MICU team after they
capped to prevent a jeopardy call Let us know about others who deserve
kudos!
Journal Club Classics
Intern Classics at Dr. Albert’s (5/11) COURAGE and CARP Dr. Hattler will be discussant
R2/R3 Block B Classics (5/18) PneumoVax & FluVax
News from UH April cardiology schedule will be continued
Four teams of one resident, one intern Teams are long call q3 during days, 6 days of
nights Parking Trial of PCDs on ward services Improvements to cross cover
Please let Taylor or Dr. Aagaard know how it is going!
MICU, Floor, New ACE service to start June 23rd
Oncology service to start July 1st
UCH Numbers
Floors: Sleesman/Sprague/Foley: 70s-80s? Schwartz/Hou/Webb: 92 Medina/Nordstrom/Pendyal: 84 Brown/Bartlett/McCormick: 81
Cards: Dalton/Burke Miles/Kahr Hodges/Huang Spence/Dunn
More UCH Numbers ICU:
Desai/Wells: ? Reichelt/Regalia: 42 Cunningham/Peter: ? Harrington/Ewert: ?
ACE: Inman et al: 55
Onc: Rosen/Stratton - ?
Challenging Cases… Cerebral Air Embolism
IJ pulled out 32 year old female with Hantavirus!
Required ECMO Aseptic Meningitis
Serology showed EBV New diagnosis of HIV on the ACE service
P/SL
Updates from P/SL New call-system to comply w/ ACGME
rules: “staggered-start” for interns, “split-call
system”… Continuing to refine Appreciate everyone’s patience, hardwork,
especially the residents!
Admission Numbers (4/1-4/30) Most admissions, record for capping at
4:20pm, and won a free dinner! Vasquez/Jennifer Jung/Stotts/Burke/Dawn
Yang: 52 Working hard to test-drive new duty hours:
Silverberg/Cash Horn/Paula Pecen/Newton Neidert/Foley: 48+
Solid Teaching, Keeping Spirits High! McWilliams/Tompkins/Tyler Chernin/
McCaffrey/Claudia Bartolini: 48+ Plenty of admissions, excact number…?”
(but solid winners of the Quiz, and a free dinner!) Sakai/Hemmat/Ricardo Pollitt/Julie Weintraub/
Keogh: 25 + 4 calls…?
Unusual & Challenging Cases Acute Rheumatic Fever in a young man Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonia in a
40 yo woman, with new dx of HIV RPGN due to pauci-immune vasculitis in
a mid-age woman
SE Asia:
Greetings from the Veteran’s Hospital!
April Admissions Only slightly cooled off…
Team Hernia – carried the heaviest load of vets Borne/Colbert/Nathan (87)
In like a lion, out like a lamb (started strong but finished light) Montford/Mohler/Furlong (82)
The Intensivists Reese/Ari/Bagley (77)
Team enigma Kirkland/Goodson/Czwornog (?)
A few of the many great cases:
Cold + warm hemolytic anemia Myasthenic crisis 2L acute hemorrhagic pleural effusion Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Neurosyphilis
Other news… OBMT vs. WARD Jeopardy Battle (10th
edition) Lopsided victory for OBMT Officials are looking into foul play…
Reports that Sumey knew the questions in advance
Epic Montford vs. Keys battle for Renal dominance ending in fisticuffs
New pizza truck outside the VA on Fridays for lunch
Denver Health
When Lunch is 5 Minutes Late at Denver Health… Two residents choose to eat this
abandoned pizza of unknown source and age Scott Davis
Post-call from the MICU Joe Sweigart
Just hungry Quiznos arrives minutes later
Denver Health Admissions
April Floor Admissions Longs : 95 (Mertz/Smolkin and
Coffey/Williams) Evans : 92 (Sweigart/Navarro) Pikes : 88 (FM:
Meeuwsen/Knierim/Ringwood) Spruce : 88 (Hansel/Miller) Aspen : 87
(Virostko/Chapman/Siriphatnaboon) Juniper : 79 (Zipse/Collins and
Heinzen/Czernik)
Denver Health Admissions
April MICU Admissions Davis/King/Colbert : 73 Puls/Taecker/Cobb : 64 Hartman/Griffith/Czernik : 43 Schneider/Keogh/Johnston : Lots
Cool cases 62 y/o F with intravascular large B-
cell lymphoma presenting with intranasal mass
NMS in a patient with bipolar disorder who received antipsychotic agents after being tazed by police for erratic behavior
18 y/o M with murmur since childhood, diagnosed with membranous VSD that expanded to involve the aortic root
Two patients transferred to the MICU for TTP/HUS in one week!
Birthdays and Announcements!
Alex Mohler 5/3Chris King 5/4
Jeremy Warner 5/6Larissa Pisney 5/7Lauren Puls 5/7
Anthony Kahr 5/9Ken Tompkins 5/10
Elma Kreso 5/11Jay Liu 5/13
John Kim 5/14Jaclyn Aguayo 5/14Carrie Brown 5/30
Outside the Hospital…
Congratulations!!