From the GME staff

We would like to offer all best wishes for a happy and safe holiday season to the entire GME community. Many thanks again for all your great work and commitment to excellence in medical education! Associate Dean and DIO Anne Messman, Administrative Director Martha Jordan, Director of Education Molly Hepke, and Research Manager Heidi Kenaga  

GME has awarded the first 2024-25 Seed Grant to a Dermatology resident and faculty. Please see our page on the Seed Grant for details on the program, which supports both research and QI projects, or contact GME Research Manager Dr. Heidi Kenaga.

To encourage program awareness of and engagement in practices that focus on retaining a diverse and inclusive workforce, GME recommends this WSU resource from the Office of Inclusive Excellence on religious holidays and observances. For more information, please contact the Director of Education Molly Hepke or Administrative Director Martha Jordan.

RC meetings are held every second Tuesday of the month from 6:30-7:30 pm as virtual events. Martha Jordan sends an invite to all residents in advance of each meeting. The RC President is Allene Fonseca Katz, and the RC Vice President is Candis Jarbo.  All are welcome!

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

At the American Society of Anesthesiologists' Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Joshua Long presented on “Unexpected development of late-onset subcutaneous emphysema in the PACU following infra-temporal abscess surgery,” co-authored by fellow resident Aileen Haque, Program Director Sandeep Krishnan, and  faculty Nazia Siddiqui; and Laurence Roberts on “Transesophageal echocardiogram for AmuletTM device placement and retrieval: Dislodged AmuletTM entangled in MitraClipTM,” co-authored by Ryan McBride, Sandeep Krishnan, and Nazia Siddiqui.  Congratulations!

Med students Parnia Behinaein, Katherine Gavagan, and Jacob Waitzman co-authored an article with Dermatology APD Geoff Potts and resident Aunna Pourang, "A review of the etiologies and key clinical features of secondary hyperhidrosis," recently accepted by the American Journal of Clinical Dermatology. In addition, Derm resident Reem Kashlan and Geoff Potts co-authored an article with Kristin Slater (Howard University IM resident), "Hypopigmented burn scar successfully repigmented with noninvasive topical Bimatoprost treatment," just accepted by Cureus. Well done!  

As in past years, our Internal Medicine residents have been active presenting posters at local conferences and national meetings around the country, such as the ACP-Michigan Chapter Annual Scientific Meeting and the American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting. Here's a list. Kudos!

Sarwan Kumar co-authored a Short Communication in the fall issue of Medical Hypotheses entitled "COVID-19 era and GLP-1 RA era," with Deepak Gupta, Berhane Seyoum, and Shushovan Chakrabortty. Well done!  

FM Program Director Eleanor King spoke on "Integrating community agencies in residency education (ICARE) through the development of a community outreach curriculum in a Family Medicine residency," a poster co-authored by Associate Dean/DIO Anne Messman, Research Manager Heidi Kenaga, FM faculty Kathryn Cox, and WSU DFMPHS faculty Ralph Williams. Dr. Kenaga presented a poster on "Introducing a narrative medicine component into a Family Medicine residency program: Preliminary thematic analysis of resident reflection documents," with co-authors Eleanor King, Anne Messman, Henry Ford Rochester Hospital CMO Sheryl Wissman, and WSU Dept. of English faculty Nicole Varty. Urology resident Michael Wang spoke on "A rescoping investigation of burnout versus moral injury in urology," co-authored with Urology resident Emma Ross and faculty Aron Liaw. Congratulations to all!

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. Please see this video about the program, and here's a sign-up link. (See also "From your DIO" in this issue.)

The Employee Assistance Program 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, call 1-800-448-8326 or see the Life Advisor Resource Center website log-in page. Enter "Wayne State University" as the name of your employer and "Detroit" as the City of Employment.

AWARE is designed to promote wellbeing 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. These resources may be downloaded for integration into existing curricula or used with other efforts to mitigate the effects of stress and foster wellbeing.

In October, Internal Medicine residents and faculty enjoyed a pleasant night of golf and a meal at Top Golf, and later in November, everyone gathered at IM APD Vesna Tegeltija's home for Thanksgiving dinner.    

The Center for Health Equity and Community Knowledge in Urban Populations (CHECK-UP) promotes collaborations between WSU faculty and community organizations to advance health equity in Detroit. The Center Director is Hayley S. Thompson, PhD, 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.