The first of GME's 2023-24 Academic Boot Camps will be held on Tues, Oct. 17 from noon to 1 pm via MSTeams on the topic Effective Healthcare Teaming. Dr. Stansfield has added a data analysis hour, scheduled for the last Friday of each month from 4-5 pm via Zoom, to which residents and faculty can bring research design, data organization, and data analysis problems for consultation. The next will be held on Oct. 27. Contact Dr. Stansfield for more info.

GME is sponsoring Healthy Boundaries for Improved Self-Care: A Wellness Seminar for Medical Residents, on Monday, Nov. 13, from 6-8 pm via Zoom. This confidential, residents-only seminar will be conducted by Marvin, a national behavioral health practice that helps ensure the social wellbeing and psychological health of healthcare providers, including medical residents. Participants will learn how boundaries can be used to successfully engage in self-care, take meaningful and rejuvenating time off, and set the stage for healthier interactions at work and in their personal lives. The seminar will be led by Heidi Schrumpf, PhD, JD, a clinical psychologist and Behavioral Health Manager at Kaiser Permanente. RSVP here!

For 2022-23, GME awarded a Seed Grant to Family Medicine faculty Kathryn Cox and resident Olivia Schimmel for their QI project Hocus POCUS: Introducing the Magic of Point of Care Ultrasound to Family Medicine Residents. Congratulations! GME is currently accepting applications for the 2023-24 funding cycle for both research and QI projects. Contact GME Research Coordinator Dr. Heidi Kenaga for more details.

RC meetings are held every second Tuesday of the month from 6:30-7:30 pm as virtual events: Oct. 10, Nov. 14, and Dec. 12. They are moderated by the RC President Tripti Nagar. GME Administrative Director Martha Jordan sends out invites in advance of the RC meetings to residents in all our programs. Everyone welcome!

The Resident Council would like to remind residents and faculty that GME hosts a page for confidential concern reporting.

Internal Medicine residents Dhairya Salvi, Zarghoona Wajid, and Javaria Asif are authors of an abstract on "Adrenal insufficiency and septic shock: Real friends or imposter," to be presented at the ACP-Michigan Scientific Meeting later this month. Their faculty advisor is Sarwan Kumar. Residents Tamara Al-Taweel, Mousa Hammoud, Wadid Sirry, and Nour Aldaoud are co-authors of "Adrenal insufficiency secondary to long-term opioids use," accepted for the same conference. Their advisor is Zain Kulairi. Congratulations!      

IM resident Mohamed Mansour authored an abstract “A rare case of multi-organ dysfunction including bilateral sensorineural hearing loss after cocaine use,” accepted for the 2023 ACP-Michigan and the Society for Hospital Medicine-Michigan Scientific Meetings in October. Co-authors include Zainab Muslehuddin, Syed Bukhari, Sarah Merten, Johan Harris, Hafeez Wasif, and Ahmed J Chaudhary. Kudos!

Internal Medicine Program Director Sarwan Kumar co-authored two more KevinMD blog posts (with Deepak Gupta) on "Ensuring compensation during absences" and on "Equitable health care guidelines for minority populations." Well done!

Three Anesthesiology residents will be presenting at the American Society of Anesthesiology's Annual Meeting in San Francisco later this month: Andrew Tudosie on "Single lung ventilation in a patient with partially decannulated tracheostomy," co-authored by faculty mentor Krassimir Denchev; Will Hrebec on "Approach to submental intubation for LeFort Type I and II fractures," co-authored by Andrew Tudosie and faculty mentor Jennifer Henderson; and Vidhi Patel on "Tension pneumocephalus after evacuation of subdural hematoma causing anoxic brain injury," with co-authors Hannah Roop and faculty mentor Krassimir Denchev. Congratulations!  

Derm faculty Meena Moossavi was senior author of "Eczematous eruption associated with two beta-3 adrenergic agonists for overactive bladder," published in the International Journal of Dermatology last spring. Madison Meyer (WSUSOM student) was the first author, current Derm resident Hailey Olds the second, and Kayla St. Claire (WSUSOM Dermatology program alumna) the third. Kudos!  

Marvin is a mental health resource developed specifically for medical residents. Marvin works with residents' insurance so there is minimal cost. It is also confidential and can be accessed at any time so it is convenient for residents to use.  Please see this video about the program, and here's a sign-up link. In addition, programs may schedule Marvin workshops for residents and faculty free of charge. Details will be found on this flyer. Marvin staff can design workshops tailored to meet the needs of programs. Marvin is hosting a wellness event, "Health," designed just for our residents, which will be held on the evening of Nov. 13 from 6-8 pm via Zoom. Contact Martha Jordan for more information.

The Employee Assistance Program provided by Ulliance is available to all residents, faculty, and staff at no cost. EAP is confidential and available to you, your partner, and your dependents. To reach an advisor immediately, call 1-800-448-8326. Click here for the Life Advisor Resource Center website log-in page. To log in, enter "Wayne State University" as the name of your employer and "Detroit" as the City of Employment. The website provides information about EAP services and how to access them. 

ACGME has developed a suite of on-demand well-being resources called AWARE, designed to promote well-being among residents and faculty. AWARE primarily focuses on individual strategies for cognitive skill-building and includes a video workshop, podcasts, and the ACGME AWARE app. Programs, institutions, and individuals can download these resources for integration into existing curricula or use in tandem with other efforts to mitigate the effects of stress and burnout, and foster well-being among members of the GME community.

FM Program Director Eleanor King hosted the WSUSOM's Family Medicine Medical Specialty Luncheon in late August. Together with residents Saboria Thomas and Donald Johnson, Dr. King shared insights with SOM students interested in the  breadth of training, educational experience, lifestyle, and other questions pertaining to the life and learnings of a family physician. Photo here!

Family Medicine faculty members Heidi Hilton, Andrea Milne, and Kathryn Cox have been refining their point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) skills in preparation for expanding the POCUS curriculum in their residency program. Drs. Hilton and Milne attended the SEMCME training in September while Dr. Cox and Program Director Eleanor King traveled to the epicenter of GME POCUS —University of South Carolina—for additional training. Photos here!  

The Family Medicine program has a strong commitment to community outreach. Recent activities include the provision of free back-to-school exams for children at Neighborhood House, a nonprofit in Rochester whose goal is to help families and parents in need of social services, food, education, jobs, transportation and many other services. With the help of our Family Medicine residency, they're also able to provide a bit of healthcare!  At the Orion Community Center in Lake Orion, residents provide diabetes, blood pressure, BMI and memory screenings, free of charge, for seniors in our community. Photos here!  

Steve Daveluy is the recipient of WSUSOM's College Teaching Award, given to faculty who demonstrate their commitment to excellence in medical education. Chief Resident Starling Tolliver was recently featured in a story in Crain's Detroit Business, widely excerpted in other online venues. This fall, Dr. Tolliver was also selected as a Rising Derm Star by the National Society of Cutaneous Medicine. She will be recognized for this award at the 43rd Annual Fall Clinical Dermatology Conference in Las Vegas. Congratulations! 

The Center for Health Equity and Community Knowledge in Urban Populations (CHECK-UP) promotes relationships between WSU faculty and community organizations to advance health equity in Detroit. The Center focuses on building research networks in four areas: Black Health and Racial Equity; LGBTQ Health; Middle Easterns and North African [MENA], Refugee, and Immigrant Health; and the Community Health Scholars Program. Director Hayley S. Thompson, PhD, is a clinical psychologist whose research addresses racial and ethnic disparities in cancer care and outcomes. She is a professor in the WSU Dept. of Oncology and the Associate Center Director for Community Outreach and Engagement at Karmanos.

Launched in 2020 by medical and graduate students in the Joint Medical Program at the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine and the UC-Berkeley School of Public Health, the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine is an interdisciplinary organization that publishes community-based scholarship about emerging medical and public health practices addressing social justice. The institute has engaged more than 3,000 individuals from hundreds of institutions around the world in their activities, which include research working group initiatives, a peer-reviewed publication, a justice resource hub, and community healing gatherings.