Post submitted by Karen Goldstein, MD, MSPH This year’s Society for General Internal Medicine (SGIM) conference provided a great opportunity for Duke trainees and faculty to share their work and steep in the activities of the larger general internal medicine community. Conference offerings focused on the major theme of “Generalists engaged in Population Health: Improving Outcomes …
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Students stellar, SGIM presentation prompts over 30 tweets!
Three Duke medical students — Jerry Lee, the presenter, Morgan Hardy, and Julie Rivo — all mentored in the Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC) including their co-authors Marigny Bratcher and Natasha Cunningham, gave a truly excellent presentation during an opening plenary session at SGIM 2016. Their topic was the “Duke Hotspotting Initiative (DHSI): Integrating Medical Education with Community-Based Care Coordination.”
SGIM 2016 news and photos
Ocean? ✔️Check. Amazing conference? ✔️Check. Where can we begin? Posters, oral presentations, gatherings? Everything was inspiring. It was a privilege, too, being around special people such as Dr. Karen DeSalvo, a general internist and Acting Assistant Secretary for Health in the US Department of Health and Human Services.The Duke med students were hot, giving an extremely well received …
Quality & Innovations Scholars Program Symposium
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement Open School @ Duke hosted its second annual quality symposium on April 20, 2016, showcasing the work of the 2015-2016 Quality & Innovation Scholars. These efforts were recognized with $3000 in scholarships to represent Duke at the 2016 IHI National Forum that takes place this December in Orlando, Florida. Multiple …
Med Students open plenary session at #SGIM16
“You are only the second medical student(s) to be offered this opportunity since 1999,” read the email from SGIM to Jerry Lee, Julie Rivo, and Morgan Hardy, three medical students from the Duke University School of Medicine. “It is indeed a wonderful and rare opportunity.”
Bae reports on recent Duke Patient Safety Conference
Posted by John Bae, MD* 11th Annual Duke Health Patient Safety and Quality Conference Duke Health ushered in a new decade of quality and safety with the 11th Annual Patient Safety and Quality Conference this past week at the convention center in downtown Durham. As a testimony to the continued growth of quality and safety at …
“The Year of the Hospitalist” – Setji reports on recent SHM Conference
The Society of Hospital Medicine held their annual conference this week in San Diego, California. The meeting had the largest attendance ever for SHM with over 4000 registered, including many from Duke. Nippon (Pooh) Setji, MD, was in attendance and was able to report back for us. Check out his full story and photo gallery from the event!
SGIM 2016 acceptances – we have more!
New Update! SGIM itinerary – Duke presentations! Click this link for the PDF: SGIM16 Itinerary for DGIM | posted 4/8/16 ********************************************** In two months many from Duke General Internal Medicine will be attending the annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine in Hollywood, Florida. Last week we posted a few of the submissions accepted for oral presentations …
SGIM 2016 Sneak Preview
The annual meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine takes place in a little over two months from now. It’s May 11-14 in Hollywood, Florida, a location on the Florida coast just north of Miami. This week we learned about our Duke acceptances. We are reporting what we’ve found so far about oral presentations plus one workshop! Next …
DoM Research Retreat 2016 “Seizing Opportunities”
This blog post submitted by: Nrupen Bhavsar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Duke General Internal Medicine. The Department of Medicine held their annual research retreat on Tuesday, February 16 and as a newly minted faculty member, I decided it was probably in my best interest to attend. The theme of the retreat was “Seizing Opportunities” and …
NIH Announcements
- Occupational Safety and Health Education and Research Centers (T42)
- Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Developing and Evaluating Evidence-Based Practice for Users of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
- Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellowship Awards to Support Training in Research Related to Down Syndrome as Part of the INCLUDE Project
