The third of GME's 2023-24 Academic Boot Camps will be held on Wednesday, March 13, from 9-11 am on the topic "Positive Psychology and Wellbeing." This session will be hosted by Marvin. GME Director of Education Dr. Brent Stansfield is continuing to hold a data analysis hour on 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. Contact Dr. Stansfield for more info.

GME has awarded a 2023-24 Seed Grant to Dermatology resident Hailey Olds and faculty mentor Darius Mehregan for their project Next Generation Sequencing for Diagnosis and Treatment of Cutaneous Follicular Lymphoma. Funds are still available for the 2023-24 grant cycle, in support of both research and QI projects. Contact GME Research Coordinator Dr. Heidi Kenaga for details.

The 9th Annual SEMCME Michigan Summit on Quality Improvement & Patient Safety will be held on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, as a combined daylong event together with the Research Forum, in Lovett Hall at The Henry Ford. For details, contact your Program Director or GME Research Coordinator Dr. Heidi Kenaga.

RC meetings are held every second Tuesday of the month from 6:30-7:30 pm as virtual events. Upcoming dates are Feb. 13 and March 12. GME Administrative Director Martha Jordan sends out invites in advance of the RC meetings to all residents. RC meetings are moderated by the RC President Tripti Nagar. The annual Professional Development Symposium will be held on Tuesday, April 16, as a virtual event. Everyone welcome!

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

Internal Medicine resident Jai Kumar and Program Director Sarwan Kumar are coauthors of an article entitled "Cardiovascular outcomes post bariatric surgery in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease - A systematic review and meta-analysis," which recently appeared in Clinics and Research in Hepatology and Gastroenterology. They also are co-authors of a Letter to the Editor on heart failure in the March issue of Current Problems in Cardiology, and Jai Kumar is co-author of two more Letters to the Editor on Pregnancy and fetal outcomes in patients with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome and cardiovascular risk prediction, published in the same journal. Kudos!  

Internal Medicine APD Vesna Tegeltija has been named a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She has also been asked to join the SEMCME QI Committee and will participate on a SEMCME panel entitled "QI 101: Preparing for Your Institutional QI Competition," to be held via Zoom on Feb. 29. Congratulations!  

Marvin is a confidential mental health resource that can be accessed 24/7. Please see this video about the program, and here's a sign-up link. The second GME/Marvin wellness webinar on "Positive Psychology and Wellbeing" will be held on March 13. For details, contact Dr. Brent Stansfield.

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, 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.

Warriors Strong Together is a program offered by the Dept. of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences providing free assistance for all members of the WSU community who may be experiencing mental health challenges. The services are available by telephone or videoconferencing.

ACGME offers a suite of on-demand wellbeing resources called AWARE, 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.

The second annual Lawrence Lackey Jr., M.D. African American History Symposium began on January 31. Presented by the WSUSOM's Black Medical Association/Student National Medical Association and Black Men In White Coats, the weekly Zoom lectures focus on facets of Black Americans in medicine. Presentations can be accessed from noon to 1 p.m. each Wednesday through May 4. 

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 focuses on building research networks in four areas: Black Health and Racial Equity; LGBTQ Health; Middle Eastern and North African [MENA], Refugee, and Immigrant Health; and the Community Health Scholars Program. 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.