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Hospital Medicine/General Medicine Present at Two Conferences, Introduce Rising Chief Residents

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Faculty from the divisions of Hospital Medicine and General Medicine, along with residents from the Internal Medicine program, attended Academic Internal Medicine Week earlier this month in Austin, Texas. This meeting is the premier conference in the US for faculty and staff from medical schools and teaching hospitals, offering courses, workshops, poster sessions, and networking events.

Workshops

• Amy Blatt, MD, co-led a workshop on the new format for letters that departments provide when med students apply IM residencies:
  “Strategies for Implementing the IM Structured Evaluative Letter at Your Institution”
• Jennifer Pascoe, MD, co-led a workshop on addressing bias incidents during clinical education experiences:
  “I Wasn’t Trained for This: Practical Strategies to Address Bias in the Clinical Learning Environment”
• Mahala Schlagman, MD, co-led a workshop on residency programs partnering with community-based organizations:
  “Stages of Change: Incorporating Community Partnerships into Residency Training”

Posters

• Alec O’Connor, MD, MPH, presented an abstract about the switch from in-person to virtual interviews/visits for residency recruitment:
  “Internal Medicine Resident Perspectives on Virtual Recruitment: A National Survey”

Also in attendance at the conference were Christine Osborne, MD, Jennifer Readlynn, MD, Jenny Shen, MD.

One of the highlights of the conference is the Chief Residents Meeting, where the incoming chief residents can begin learning and networking before officially taking on the role in June. The DOM was excited to host rising chief residents Taylor Cox, MD, Anima Ghimire, DO, Piotr Karmilowicz, MD, and Sarah Rusnak, MD, for this meeting.

Later in April, faculty traveled to Burlington, VT, for the Northeast Group on Educational Affairs (NEGEA) Conference, where they gave two oral presentations:

• “DRAFTing in the moonlight: a novel tool for diagnostic reflection and calibration”
  Ellie Garbade, MD, Catie Glatz, MD, Mike Rothberg, MD, Valerie Lang, MD, MHPE, Jennifer Readlynn, MD, and Christopher Mooney, MD.
• “Examining generalizability of faculty written comments in clerkship assessments”
  Christopher Mooney, MD, Amy Blatt, MD, Jennifer Pascoe, MD, and Valerie Lang, MD, MHPE