MAY HOUSESTAFF MEETINGMay 4th, 2011

Dr. Ridgway (Interim Chair)

Dr. Suzanne Brandenburg Annual ACGME survey coming up this

month Questions? Institutional site visit June 2011

Fellowship match timeline changed for next year No fellowship interviews next year Pushed back to fall of 2012

Thank you for all of your hard work!

Program Requirements 2010-2011 Residency Requirements

CEX 4 this academic year 2 in primary clinic 1 in OBMT, 1 on inpatient service CEX forms on the residency website

To be completed by both resident and preceptor Due May 1st, 2011

Hopkins Modules Back Pain, Immunizations, Professionalism:

Challenging Conversations and Encounters Due May 1st, 2011

Housestaff Association Updates from Noelle

Meal allowances will be allocated based on this year’s meal tickets as opposed to new shift calculations in order to avoid a decrease

ACP Associates Conference! Combined UCD/St. Joe’s Resident

meeting Presentation of Oral Clinical Unknown

Vignettes (guess the diagnosis!) Poster Presentations Judging, cash prizes for presenters Free Dinner and time to hang, socialize! Held at St. Joes, Tuesday June 7, 2010, 4-

9:30 PM

ACP Associates Conference! Congrats to UCD Presenters:

Steph Seiki Carrie Brown Rudy Kimmerling Erin Marcum Shabi Showell Ben Scheier Tracey Hansel Andrew Sweatt Alison Landrey Kirsten Regalia

Please RSVP to cochapteracp@msn.com Stay tuned for additional info by email…

Congratulations! Noelle Northcutt and Chi Zheng

Selected to receive the Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Award

Nominated by third year medical students Also nominated from our program:

Eric Young, Maria Astiz, Christopher King, Brian Keogh, Zachary Reese,  Jennifer Fraser, Mark Learned, and Rachael Dirksen

Email Accounts For residents leaving this year

Email accounts will terminate on 6/23/11 or 6/30/11 (Last day of employment)

No exceptions! Activate “Out of Office Assistant” a few

days before you leave Will be active for approximately 45 days

Contact Jennifer Weber if you have other questions!

Housekeeping Educational Funds

All receipts for any educational funds you plan to use must be turned into Jennifer Weber no later than May 20, 2011

For Continuing R1 and R2 residents VA paperwork and Mandatory Modules Training

need to be completed ASAP! If you took the mandatory training modules

after March 2010, you only need to take the Refresher Course  

All forms/paperwork must be given to Kristy Zanao by May 13, 2011

Badging/Fingerprinting cannot be done unless the VA HR office has all the completed paperwork

Housekeeping Annual PPDs

Exiting residents can have PPD placed also

Pager Forwarding How is Pager Forwarding Going?

Planning for the Future Five Areas of Focus

Fellowship Interviews and Coverage No fellowship interviews 2011-2012

Interviews in Sept/Oct 2012 Resident task force to develop solutions?

Contact Nick Weber Categorical Resident Mentoring and

Curriculum Pathways will start next year New APD for research Dr. Schwartz

Recruiting faculty member for mentoring future physician scientists

See Tibor with other thoughts, suggestions

Planning for the Future Improved Program-Wide Communication

Housestaff meeting will be presented monthly at each site next year

Continued monthly emails from Dr. Brandenburg

See Tanner/Taylor with thought/suggestions Personal/Family Emergencies

Call CMR on call, your APD or Dr. Brandenburg We want to help!

Resident Appreciation and Feedback See Lindsey with thoughts/suggestions

Upcoming Events CMRs planning Rockies Outing!

Details will be coming soon… Residency Continuation Ceremony (AKA

Trivia Bowl) June 2nd 6:30 PM at the Wynkoop We are still looking for good stories, pictures,

etc! R1 to R2 Transition Day

June 3rd

Interns will be excused from clinical responsibilites

Upcoming Events R3 Graduation Ceremony

June 5th 6:00 PM at Maggiano’s Downtown Please RSVP to Kristy Zanao by May 27th

Intern Welcome Dinner June 22nd at Wash Park All residents invited!

Intern Orientation Interns will join teams at the site where they

will be starting

Duty Hours: April 30 hour rule:

Total of 11 University Ward, University Cardiology (1 at PSL!!)

80 hour rule: NONE!

10 hour rule: Much improved at University Cards 7 vs 21!

Days-off: 2 violations

Jeop-o-meter April: 5 shifts called

3 for capping (DG ICU, floor) 2 for family emergency

Thanks to those who served! Paul Allyn Kate Jennings Aaron Scott x2 days Matt Moles

REMINDERS: Call starts at 7! (thus pager and cell must be

on by that time…!) If called in, you are responsible to stay till 12pm

the next day, present pts

Jeop-o-meter “Percentage of Jeopardy Used”

3.3 % of total jeopardy coverage 10 % of R3 Short jeopardy coverage

“Percent of Teams that called jeopardy for cap” 5 services every day that could cap… “150 jeopardizeable days” 3 days, 3 teams

DH Wards 1 DH ICU 2

”our services exceeded cap 2 % of the time”

Shout-Outs For those who went above and beyond in

April… Dan Wells

Agreed to schedule change with call on June 22nd!

Matt Moles Kindly agreed to cover second jeopardy on

Easter weekend Jared Davis

Will cover a night shift in the DH MICU for R3 Graduation

Joe Sweigart Admitted for the DH MICU team after they

capped to prevent a jeopardy call Let us know about others who deserve

kudos!

Journal Club Classics

Intern Classics at Dr. Albert’s (5/11) COURAGE and CARP Dr. Hattler will be discussant

R2/R3 Block B Classics (5/18) PneumoVax & FluVax

News from UH April cardiology schedule will be continued

Four teams of one resident, one intern Teams are long call q3 during days, 6 days of

nights Parking Trial of PCDs on ward services Improvements to cross cover

Please let Taylor or Dr. Aagaard know how it is going!

MICU, Floor, New ACE service to start June 23rd

Oncology service to start July 1st

UCH Numbers

Floors: Sleesman/Sprague/Foley: 70s-80s? Schwartz/Hou/Webb: 92 Medina/Nordstrom/Pendyal: 84 Brown/Bartlett/McCormick: 81

Cards: Dalton/Burke Miles/Kahr Hodges/Huang Spence/Dunn

More UCH Numbers ICU:

Desai/Wells: ? Reichelt/Regalia: 42 Cunningham/Peter: ? Harrington/Ewert: ?

ACE: Inman et al: 55

Onc: Rosen/Stratton - ?

Challenging Cases… Cerebral Air Embolism

IJ pulled out 32 year old female with Hantavirus!

Required ECMO Aseptic Meningitis

Serology showed EBV New diagnosis of HIV on the ACE service

P/SL

Updates from P/SL New call-system to comply w/ ACGME

rules: “staggered-start” for interns, “split-call

system”… Continuing to refine Appreciate everyone’s patience, hardwork,

especially the residents!

Admission Numbers (4/1-4/30) Most admissions, record for capping at

4:20pm, and won a free dinner! Vasquez/Jennifer Jung/Stotts/Burke/Dawn

Yang: 52 Working hard to test-drive new duty hours:

Silverberg/Cash Horn/Paula Pecen/Newton Neidert/Foley: 48+

Solid Teaching, Keeping Spirits High! McWilliams/Tompkins/Tyler Chernin/

McCaffrey/Claudia Bartolini: 48+ Plenty of admissions, excact number…?”

(but solid winners of the Quiz, and a free dinner!) Sakai/Hemmat/Ricardo Pollitt/Julie Weintraub/

Keogh: 25 + 4 calls…?

Unusual & Challenging Cases Acute Rheumatic Fever in a young man Lymphocytic Interstitial Pneumonia in a

40 yo woman, with new dx of HIV RPGN due to pauci-immune vasculitis in

a mid-age woman

SE Asia:

Greetings from the Veteran’s Hospital!

April Admissions Only slightly cooled off…

Team Hernia – carried the heaviest load of vets Borne/Colbert/Nathan (87)

In like a lion, out like a lamb (started strong but finished light) Montford/Mohler/Furlong (82)

The Intensivists Reese/Ari/Bagley (77)

Team enigma Kirkland/Goodson/Czwornog (?)

A few of the many great cases:

Cold + warm hemolytic anemia Myasthenic crisis 2L acute hemorrhagic pleural effusion Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Neurosyphilis

Other news… OBMT vs. WARD Jeopardy Battle (10th

edition) Lopsided victory for OBMT Officials are looking into foul play…

Reports that Sumey knew the questions in advance

Epic Montford vs. Keys battle for Renal dominance ending in fisticuffs

New pizza truck outside the VA on Fridays for lunch

Denver Health

When Lunch is 5 Minutes Late at Denver Health… Two residents choose to eat this

abandoned pizza of unknown source and age Scott Davis

Post-call from the MICU Joe Sweigart

Just hungry Quiznos arrives minutes later

Denver Health Admissions

April Floor Admissions Longs : 95 (Mertz/Smolkin and

Coffey/Williams) Evans : 92 (Sweigart/Navarro) Pikes : 88 (FM:

Meeuwsen/Knierim/Ringwood) Spruce : 88 (Hansel/Miller) Aspen : 87

(Virostko/Chapman/Siriphatnaboon) Juniper : 79 (Zipse/Collins and

Heinzen/Czernik)

Denver Health Admissions

April MICU Admissions Davis/King/Colbert : 73 Puls/Taecker/Cobb : 64 Hartman/Griffith/Czernik : 43 Schneider/Keogh/Johnston : Lots

Cool cases 62 y/o F with intravascular large B-

cell lymphoma presenting with intranasal mass

NMS in a patient with bipolar disorder who received antipsychotic agents after being tazed by police for erratic behavior

18 y/o M with murmur since childhood, diagnosed with membranous VSD that expanded to involve the aortic root

Two patients transferred to the MICU for TTP/HUS in one week!

Birthdays and Announcements!

Alex Mohler 5/3Chris King 5/4

Jeremy Warner 5/6Larissa Pisney 5/7Lauren Puls 5/7

Anthony Kahr 5/9Ken Tompkins 5/10

Elma Kreso 5/11Jay Liu 5/13

John Kim 5/14Jaclyn Aguayo 5/14Carrie Brown 5/30

Outside the Hospital…

Congratulations!!