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Announcing research awards – June and July 2015
Congratulations to these general medicine faculty who are recent recipients of research funding. Corrine I. Voils, PhD, has received an award (1R34-HL125669-01A1) from the National Institutes of Health for a project entitled “Incentivizing Behavior Change Skills to Promote Weight Loss.” Total funding will be $715,500. Read more about this announcement here. Lesley H. …
Ambulatory Care Leadership Track – photo gallery
Welcome to our photo gallery of events from Spring 2015! These photos were taken during activities by participants in the Ambulatory Care Leadership Track (ACLT), a concentrated general internal medicine elective for Duke medicine residents. Our GIM clinician-educators lead the ACLT and the Director is Dr. Daniella Zipkin. The ACLT program provides a remarkable expanded clinical experience …
Staff spotlight: Harriett Ware
For this week’s spotlight we present a member of our administrative staff, Harriett Ware. While she may be fairly new to GIM, she’s not new to Duke. When you read about her you will believe this is someone you want to know, both for her responsibilities to the Division Chief and for her passions for “shopping, …
Clough authors JAMA viewpoint article
Jeffrey Clough, MD, a Health Services Researcher at Duke, is the lead author of this recent JAMA Viewpoint article, July 28, 2015. Jeffrey D. Clough, MD, MBA, Barak D. Richman, JD, PhD, Seth W. Glickman, MD, MBA. Outlook for Alternative Payment Models in Fee-for-Service Medicare. JAMA. 2015;314(4):341-342. doi:10.1001/jama.2015.8047. The viewpoint provides an overview to date of CMS’s efforts to transition fee-for-service Medicare into an alternative …
GIM Social & Poster Event September 24
Join your fellow GIM colleagues for our first Wine & Cheese Social plus Posters! Event Information Date: Thursday, September 24, 2015 Time: 5:00 – 7:00 pm Location: the Great Hall in the Trent Semans Building Poster specifics: everyone – faculty, fellows, staff – may present a poster that displays your programs, research or new initiatives …
Rubin receives 2015 Education Award
Annually the Department of Medicine names an individual from each division to receive an award for excellence in education. Accompanying this recognition is a $5000 gift! This year’s beneficiary in GIM is Dr. Sharon Rubin, a clinician-educator and Assistant Professor of Medicine. Dr. Rubin directs the ambulatory internal medicine residency program for Duke@Pickett Road. She is remarkably accomplished at several levels …
Twitter in Medicine, Part 6: Live-tweeting the medical conference
Live-tweeting requires a lot of trust. To be effective there’s much to be said about the need to loosen up, focus on the moment, and breathe. I am speaking as much to myself as to you. Live-tweeting means posting comments about the event while the affair is happening, in real time, not just one tweet, …
Twitter in Medicine Series, Part 5: “Where’s the beef?”
So, where’s the substance of tweeting? Is this worth our time? Here’s the case for creating your account. Some disappointing news In May 2012 Harvard Business Review published “What makes a good tweet?” from a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, MIT and Georgia Tech. (1) The researchers asked 1,443 users to rate the quality of …
Twitter in Medicine Series, Part 3: Who Should You Follow?
In case you missed it, last week’s blog post covered details of setting up an account on Twitter. Among many reasons to do this is the ease of Twitter for us to view news alerts, to read opinions from people we trust, to make new connections, even build community. If you already set up your …
Interested in Twitter in Medicine?
Who knew one-third of conference participants for AAHPM (the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine), 1400 of 3000+ attendees, would “live tweet” last month’s Annual Assembly? Why did they do that? What did they talk about? In real-time they posted key points, links to presentation documents, and pertinent publications. They broadcast congrats to new awardees and even …
NIH Announcements
- Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25 Independent Clinical Trial Not Allowed)
- Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25 Independent Basic Experimental Studies with Humans Required)
- Mentored Quantitative Research Development Award (Parent K25 Independent Clinical Trial Required)
