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News Around the Residency
"Must Know Info of the WFMR"
Block 10 (2017-18 academic year)
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WFMR Announcements
Match Day 2018!
We couldn't be happier with the 12 amazing new interns who will join our WFMR family in July. Dr. Stacy Potts and Michael Smith want to extend a HUGE thank you to every one of the many faculty members and residents who interviewed and hosted 116 candidates over our three-month interview season.
In particular, we would like to thank the following individuals for their special contributions in making our annual interview season an enormous success each year: Janice Craig, Tamara Cullen, Joni Pulnik, Brenda Rivard, Stacy Mosley, Lacey Melanson, Kathy Alexander and Nicole Pagin. You are the best!
Our new residents are listed below. (If you missed their bios and photos when they were emailed to the Department last week, you can find them again here.)
Hahnemann
Jie (Jenny) Chan, MD, BU School of Medicine
Chelsea Evans, MD, Temple University School of Medicine
Michael Flynn, MD, UMass Medical School
Tammer Masoud, MD, Ross University School of Medicine
Barre
Elizabeth Bobersky, MD, Albany Medical College
Stephanie Russell, MD, St. Georges University
Beshoy Sidhom, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Suhas Sreeharshan, DO, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicin
Family Health Center
Anna Bui, MD, BU School of Medicine
Giana Dalben, MD, Ross University School of Medicine
Jordan Howard-Young, MD, Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine
Kara Kimball, MD, University of Limerick, Ireland
Resident Open Enrollment for Benefits
Click here for important information and to sign up for the open enrollment period.
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Hospital Medicine Announcements
The resident conference room and the resident call rooms will be moving to the second floor hallway between west 2 and SICU. The move is tentatively planned for 3/28/18. All current operations that occur in the resident conference room will be held in the new room. The new room is badge access and will tentatively be accessible by all the Family Medicine Department. The call rooms will be located adjacent to the conference room and will also be badge access. All current workstations and appliances are being moved. Phone numbers should remain the same.
Central Residency Leadership Role Transitions
 THANK YOU, DR. EARLS!
ephen Earls, MD has served as medical and education director at the Barre Family Health Center for decades. His commitment to education in an ever - changing clinical system has been unending. Generations of family physician graduates of the Barre Family Health Center have benefited from his unique ability to balance the educational needs with the clinical needs of the health center and community. He has incorporated the service into the education in a way that maintains the true joy of family medicine for our faculty and learners.
We are thrilled that Dr. Earls will remain medical director at the health center and continue to lead the clinical commitment that makes Barre so unique. However, he has generously passed on the education director role to a new leader, Dr. Allison Hargreaves. Thank you Dr. Earls for all you do for the Barre Family Health Center and our Department. Thank you for your many years of service as Education Director. Your ongoing support and leadership in the residency are greatly appreciated.
 THANK YOU, DR. HARGREAVES!
Allison Hargreaves has served a critical role in the central residency for many years. In that role, she was the director of FMIS as well as overseeing the adult medicine curriculum. We are greatly appreciative of her commitment to the bigger picture of the residency and her support of the residency staff through those many years. Her many accomplishments include developing a milestone based evaluation system, a focus on individualized learning plans, faculty development around coaching, mentoring junior faculty, and shepherding a smooth transition to a Hospitalist supervised FMIS rotation, to list just a few.
She has been a wonderful support to me as program director as well, knowing that I can always count on her to be available to step in. As Dr. Hargreaves makes the transition to Education Director at Barre, she will be stepping back from her Central Residency Role and her continued role as an Associate Residency Director will focus more on the opportunities in Barre. I am so thrilled to have her in that role, but also would be remiss to not celebrate the important role that she has played in the central residency. Thank you Dr. Hargreaves for your years of work in the Central Residency. Your commitment and dedication have been a huge benefit to the central residency and your contributions are greatly appreciated!
WELCOME, DR. VAN DUYNE!
I am excited to announce that Ginny Van Duyne will be taking on a greater role in the Central Residency. Dr. Van Duyne will continue in her FHCW Education Director role, and will also have one day a week within the Central Residency. In the expanded role, Dr. Van Duyne will have multiple responsibilities including taking on oversight of the workshop curriculum, and a leadership role in Foundations.
As you see her more around the Memorial campus, please welcome her. I am sure she will be a great support to the Central Residency staff and will continue to be a "go -to" person for the residents. It is an exciting time to bring her aboard and I look forward to the contributions she will undoubtedly make to the continuous improvement of our residency. Thank you Ginny, and welcome!
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Chiefs' Corner
Sandra Augusto, MD (Barre); Carolyn Murphy, MD (FHCW); Liz Gagnier, MD (HFHC)
Welcome to Block #10! Can you believe we are in the home stretch of our academic year?
J Time really does speed along when you are having this much fun!!
Below you will find some updates and reminders for the upcoming months...
but first we would like to send a warm CONGRATULATIONS to Dr. Ginny Van Duyne (Massachusetts Physician of the Year) and Dr. David Gilchrist (Massachusetts Medical Society President), we are proud and very happy for you both!
GOOD LUCK PGY3s as you take your boards in the upcoming weeks!!
As always, wishing all of you tons of happiness, laughter and peace.
Yours,
SCL
Outpatient curriculum task force: Residency drive (WFMR_ED_Resources) is now up and running with resources and folders for our ongoing didactics. If you do not have access, please contact Tamara Cullen.
PGY3's - please ensure that you complete your end of year surveys and send your certificate information to Tamara Cullen as soon as possible.
If you need retraining for PALS, please click on this link (
cost center 100.0.20.6610.8439.00).
Reminder M&M conferences: April 17th, May 15th and June 19th from 7:30-8:30 am in the UMass Memorial Amphitheater.
Next Resident Meeting: 1:00 pm on Tuesday, April 17h, 2018.
Curriculum Retreat now T
uesday April 24th from 5-8pm (with Moe's for dinner), residents and faculty are invited to participate in an engaging look at the big picture of our residency curriculum and help develop next steps.
Please rsvp to Janice Craig.
STFM Annual Spring Conference is coming up May 5-9, 2018 in Washington, DC. Click here for more
info
WFMR Graduation - June 15th at 6pm at the Wachusett Country Club, please be sure to rsvp to Janice Craig.
PGY3 Poster Session: June 13 at University Campus, time and place will be announced soon.
Do you have pictures of fond moments in residency that you just can't wait to share with your colleagues-faculty-staff, well here is your chance. This year's PGY3s are putting together a graduation slide show and hope you will contribute. Please drop any pictures you would like to share in the residency folder labeled "graduation pp pics".
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Worcester Family Medicine
Resident of Block 9
M
ichael Maddaleni, MD, PGY-1
Barre Family Health Center
Michael Maddaleni, MD is a 2017 graduate of UMass Medical School and a 2011 graduate of Boston College where he studied Chemistry. Michael worked as a research assistant prior to medical school and would like to pursue a sports medicine fellowship after residency. His interests outside of medicine include baseball and volleyball.
From our residents: "I would like to nominate intern Mike. He was a delight to work with and get to know on FMIS last block. We had really sick patients who required a lot of coordination and attention to detail. He handled that with ease. He was so good with the patients and could put anyone at ease. He sure did love to chat with them! We also had so much fun with our walking dead slumber
parties ;) "
Dr. Earls: "Mike is a great choice. He is off to a great start in the health center. Most notable is how at ease Mike can be in the exam room with his patients. He presents himself professionally and with a confidence that places patients at ease. His energy and positive attitude are a great addition to our health center."
Dr. Gracey: "If you are looking for Mike Maddaleni at the Barre Family Health Center, you'll probably have to search for him. He might be in his office, teaching a medical student about evidence-based approaches to asthma management. He could be in a patient room, listening patiently to an elderly woman tell him critical details about her health. Or he might be searching for his preceptor (stopping along the way to ask the staff how they are doing), with a plan in place to ask well-crafted questions. Wherever you find him, he'll be working hard and devoting himself fully to patient care and education."
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Wellness Corner: Empathy is Good
By Tina Runyan, Ph.D
Empathy is Good, Compassion is Even Better.
I was recently team precepting a resident who was seeing a patient fairly well known to her, albeit but with frequent no-shows, and one of those patients where it feels like you are having the same conversation over and over again in every visit. The visit started with the patient expressing extreme distress and stating that she "needed to be admitted to the hospital and have extensive testing done to correctly diagnose her chronic abdominal pain." By the end of the visit, the patient was cautiously accepting the possibility of an outpatient diagnostic test, stating that she would "first try a few other things as she did not want to have unnecessary tests done. " In between those two statements is where the magic happened.
The magic I am referring to is deep, active, and empathetic listening. It might feel like it requires "extra" time. It might also feel as though you are not doing much. But this encounter was an excellent example of how empathy and compassion can shift someone's experience - the climate of their mind - where their joy can then expand or their sorrow can shrink. In contrast, sympathy, rational re-direction, or even diplomatic objection to a patient's stated need will yield little. Most of you have learned this already and, despite temptation, can often resist the desire to lecture patients or zealously explain why their internet-based diagnosis and treatment suggestions are wrong. However, what do you do instead?
According to Sinclair and colleagues, patients often experience expressing sympathy as
an unwanted, pity-based response to a distressing situation, characterized by a lack of understanding and self-preservation of the observer. Empathy was experienced as an affective response that acknowledges and attempts to understand individual's suffering through emotional resonance. While helpful to the patient, empathy carries some risk of depletion to the clinician when a day is filled with patients experiencing substantial distress. In contrast, compassion enhances empathy by adding distinct features of being motivated by love, the altruistic role of the responder, action, and small, supererogatory acts of kindness.
These components provide both the most beneficial impact to patients while also safeguarding the clinician by boosting the sense of helpfulness and accomplishment. Without empathy, however, others can experience compassionate gestures as acts of sympathy. Empathetic listening is one of the most compassionate acts - and sometimes the only - intervention one can offer.
Enjoy this 3 minute animated
clip
on the difference between empathy and sympathy.
Reference: Sinclair S, Beamer K, Hack TF, et al. Sympathy, empathy, and compassion: A grounded theory study of palliative care patients' understandings, experiences, and preferences. Palliative Medicine. 2017;31(5):437-447. doi:10.1177/0269216316663499.
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Workshop Schedule
PGY-1
4/17 BUP Course
Dr. Baxter
PGY-2
3/27 HC Based
HC Faculty
4/3 Motivational Interviewing
Drs. Mullin and Boucher
4/10 Life Long Learning
Drs. Baldor and Domino
4/17 Alcohol Abuse 3:30
T. Runyan
4/24 HC Based
HC Faculty
PGY-3
3/27 HC-Based and iCels training
HC Faculty
4/3 Medical Managing: Finding Unnecessary Healthcare Costs
Matt Collins, MD
4/10 Life Long Learning
Drs. Baldor and Domino
4/17 Independent Project Time
4/24 HC Based
HC Faculty
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Celebrations and Congratulations!
WFMR wishes a congratulations and Harry Retirement to Alan Chuman, MPH, MA.who is stepping down this week after 20 years as the Department's Academic Administrator. A wonderful reception was held for Alan on March 27 with his family members (and new grandchild!) in attendance. We will miss you, Alan and we look forward to staying in touch with you in your well--earned retirement!
3/26 Stefan Goupil, PGY-3
3/29 Julie Powers. PGY-1
4/4 Lisetta Shah, PGY-3
4/15 Michael Murphy, PGY-2
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Useful On-line Resources
This list will be updated on an ongoing basis and will appear in each future edition of this newsletter: Please contact Dr. Potts if you would like to add a resource to this list.
Physician Opportunities at UMass Memorial. Check out the link to see what physician job opportunities are currently being advertised throughout UMass Memorial.
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