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Acceptance to Program in Practice-Based Research Methods
Congratulations to Alex Cho, MD, MBA (GIM) and to Brian Eichner, MD (Pediatrics), who received news this week of acceptance to the Certificate Program in Practice-Based Research Methods. This training program begins now through June 2016 and seeks to develop a new generation of PBRN investigators. Participation means attendance for monthly webinars on various PBRN topics, development and presentation …
Faculty Spotlight: Corrine Voils, PhD
For this week’s faculty spotlight, we talk to Corrine Voils, PhD, a faculty member of DGIM since completing her fellowship in 2004. In this interview, Voils talks about leading faculty development efforts and about a planning grant that evaluates an IT platform for weight loss management. Did you know she’s from Texas and “grew up in the desert”? …
Peyser Co-chairs Upcoming MedEd Conference
Bruce Peyser, MD, a clinician-educator in DGIM, will co-chair, along with Robyn Latessa, MD, from UNC SOM Asheville, the upcoming “Consortium for Longitudinal Integrated Clerkships (CLIC) 2015.” This large conference takes place Oct 4-8, 2015, beginning with 2 days in Durham, then 2 days in Asheville.The CLIC is a relatively new movement in medical education that …
Recent GIM Publications
Congratulations to the authors of these papers appearing July 2015 – early October 2015. The list below provides the full citations and links to PubMed. If you want to know more about our researchers, their interests and their methodologies, you can find that information from our GIM web pages. And, it’s possible to check our Publications query …
Hot Topic – Future Directions of Implementation Science
Posted by George L. Jackson, Ph.D., MHA* VA HSR&D-DGIM Implementation Science Series: UNC’s Bryan Weiner Talks about the State of Implementation Science On Tuesday, September 8, Bryan J. Weiner, Ph.D. from the Department of Health Policy and Administration and Sheps Center for Health Services research at UNC-Chapel Hill delivered the latest in a series of …
This week in the press!
Picked up online by “Bariatric News” (Aug 2015) was a systematic review by Corrine Voils, PhD, as senior author of a paper titled: “Patient and Referring Practitioner Characteristics Associated with the Likelihood of Undergoing Bariatric Surgery: A Systematic Review”. The original publication appeared in JAMA Surgery July 29, 2015. The authors’ analysis found that primary care practitioners, those …
Have you heard of “WIP”? Think Faculty/Fellowship Development
WIP stands for “Works in Progress”, part of a weekly Faculty/Fellow Development Series directed by Drs. Corrine Voils and David Edelman. The series content often covers educational topics but a special focus is the “Works in Progress”. In these sessions mentees present preliminary research findings, grant ideas, or perhaps a review of an abstract prior to …
New Hospitalists to Benefit from Teaching Program
Beginning next week, Drs. Greenblatt (GIM) and Yanamadala (Geriatrics) will present their Teachers’ Workshop to newly hired DUH and DRH hospitalists. Participants receive a series of six 2-hour seminars based on the “Stanford Faculty Development Program in Clinical Teaching”, a curriculum designed to enhance teacher versatility. These two instructors have collectively trained more than 1000 physicians across various …
RFP for the Mandel Center for Hypertension and Atherosclerosis at Duke (due Nov 13)
OVERVIEW: The Mandel Center is pleased to announce its 2016 Request for Proposal (RFP) to provide support for innovative research into the causes and treatment of hypertension, atherosclerosis and related cardiovascular diseases. The Mandel Center for Hypertension and Atherosclerosis at Duke has been established to advance scientific understanding in the areas of hypertension, atherosclerosis, and …
Interested in primary care research?
If so, you have kindred spirits in two places: (1) in the “North American Primary Care Research Group” and (2) locally, within the “North Carolina Network Consortium”. First, the North American Primary Care Research Group (NA PCRG) comprises 100+ practice-based research networks (PBRNs), offering opportunities primarily in the form of conferences, newsletters, funding announcements and …
NIH Announcements
- Using Neuromodulation to Characterize the Continuum of Pathophysiology Between Substance Use and Mental Health Disorders (R01 Clinical Trial Required)
- NEI Notice of Participation in PA-24-185, "Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award (Parent K23 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)"
- Notice of Expiration of PAR-22-261 "Archiving and Documenting Child Health and Human Development Data Sets (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
