The session was held in conjunction with clinician educators from University of Chicago and the novel model presented addressed the activity of handing patients off (from graduating senior residents to incoming interns) in the resident outpatient practice.
A federal employee with the NIH, Dr. Tara Palmore was instrumental in stopping the spread of a deadly hospital-acquired infection leading to a groundbreaking model for the health care industry. The achievement was the result of a "first-ever" genome sequencing used to identify the source and trace the transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
APDIM is a nationally and internationally recognized organization that is influential in educational reform and public policy, particularly in the United States and Canada, and has more than 2,115 members representing 368 U.S. and international internal medicine residency programs. As a newly-elected councilor, Dr. Logio will be honored at an APDIM awards luncheon to be held in Atlanta in the spring.
On June 7, 2012, the Internal Medicine Residency program celebrated the 2012 class of graduating residents at its annual banquet. Dr. Lia Logio, Vice Chair for Education and Residency Director, announced several awards for faculty and housestaff. Honored at the event were Dr. James Horowitz, outgoing Chief Resident, and Dr. Laura Fanucchi, outgoing Quality Improvement Chief Resident.
Established in 1995, the David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award encourages medical residents to continue their investigative research in internal medicine. Each year, senior medical residents submit research abstracts, and four finalists are chosen to present their work during medical grand rounds. Finalists listed below.
The Fellows Research Award is presented annually to fellows within the Department of Medicine who have presented outstanding research. This year's winners were announced at the May 29th Medicine Grand Rounds and marked the 10-year anniversary for the award.
Faculty and residents-in-training enjoyed a visit from Dr. Skorton, the President of Cornell University (Ithaca), who was being honored as The O. Wayne Isom Visiting Professor. As guest speaker, Dr. Skorton posed the question: Does a Career in Academic Medicine Still Make Sense?
The partnership program gives WCMC medical students the opportunity to conduct a six-week primary care clerkship in Ithaca in which they shadow local physicians. WCMC students are afforded clinical experience that would be atypical at Manhattan hospitals such as managing mononucleosis on a university campus, or conducting family medicine in rural villages and farms.
Dr. Mohamad F. Jamiluddin, a former fellow in the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, obtained a patent and produced several research papers in the field of HIV-AIDS within his first two years of training. His journey – emigrating from India to America – is featured in a documentary premiering on HBO, July 4, 2011.
Dr. Jennifer Downs was one of the "first" of four to graduate from a novel Global Health Track of the Master's of Science Degree in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research. This program is a proactive collaboration between the Department of Medicine's Division of Clinical Epidemiology and Evaluative Sciences Research and the Center for Global Health in the Division of Infectious Diseases.
