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News Around the Residency
"Must Know Info of the WFMR"
Block 6 (2017-18 academic year)
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C
hiefs' Corner
Sandra Augusto, MD (Barre); Liz Kardas, MD (HFHC); Carolyn Murphy, MD (HFHC)
Thank you all for the feedback you provided on last month's edition of
Chiefs' Corner. Our intention is to increase your awareness and to hopefully peak your interest in some of the happenings in and out of the residency.
Why are we wearing sunglasses and pink scarfs, you ask? Well, clearly we have impeccable taste in clothing...ok, ok fine, the truth is the theme at this year's
Family Medicine Education Consortium, Inc.
(FMEC) annual meeting was Rock n' Roll, so your chiefs and your fierce leader (Dr. Potts) decided to bring a little of the pink lady flavor to Ohio. (movie reference: Grease).
At FMEC, Liz and Carolyn attended a session on Digital Story Telling, which is a short (typically 2-3 min) collection of pictures set to
music or ba
ckgro
und voice-over which allows you to communicate a story and/or emotion. If you are interested check out this
video
. Other resources include storycenter.org, s
hotcut.org, and storyboardthat.com.
Outpatient Curriculum Task Force
: met on Tuesday, November 21 to discuss, develop and organize a standard list of core topics, shared lectures and a shared drive. Next meeting Jan 2018.
ABFM Board Examination Registration opens on December 1 for PGY-3s. To schedule an exam location and date, you must have met the 50 minimum required Family Medicine Certification Activity points no later than February 23, 2018. See this
link.
WFMR Holiday Party: December 26 in Levine, 2-5pm: get ready for some good food, music, laughs and an old fashioned Yankee Swap. All residents, faculty and staff are invited and encouraged to attend.
WFMR Residency Retreat: January 23 at the Ski Ward in Worcester: the educational component will include disaster and sports medicine followed by some safe wintery fun.
Calling all PGY-2s: Chief elections for the 2018-2019 academic year will take place at the residency retreat on January 23. If you are a PGY-2 and are interested in running for chief, please prepare a brief statement on why you want to be chief, what you will contribute as chief and why you are the right person for the job. Please e-mail these statements to Tamara by January 5, so that she can then
e-mail them to the rest of the group.
"Pott's Luck" (where your presence matters more than the food): next meeting in January, date TBD.
AAFP Advocacy: If you are interested in advocacy or just want to learn more about what is going on in family medicine, consider joining/browsing the Massachusetts
AAFP chapter.
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) Annual Spring Conference: May 5-9, 2018 in Washington, D.C. "The nation's most energized networking forum for family medicine educators, with nearly 400 educational and interactive seminars, lecture-discussions, papers, and poster presentations." Check it out
here.
Please feel free to contact us about any of the above or with any new ideas or updates.
Wishing you all a Happy Holiday Season!
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Wellness Moment from Tina Runyan, Ph.D
I
I'm reading
Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being
by Martin Seligman, who is the founder and arguably the nation's leading expert on positive psychology.
The central tenet of the book is that well-being has five elements: positive emotions, engagement, meaning, positive relationships, and accomplishment (PERMA). It seems pretty obvious that the more PERMA one has in his/her life, a greater sense of well-being will follow. What is not so obvious, however, is that some pretty simple and specific exercises can and do measurably increase these elements in your life and thus your well-being. Seligman cautions against trying to identify and fortify your gaps, but rather embraces an entirely strength based approach.
Try this brief signature strengths survey and then commit to spending a little bit of time using your strengths more frequently and in new ways, either at work or home. For example, if one of your signature strengths is love of learning, you could set aside a couple hours a month to take a class or explore a new topic. If, however, kindness and generosity are among your top strengths, setting aside time each month to volunteer in some capacity might help you flourish. The idea is to first discover and then play to your strengths.
Another simple (but not necessarily easy) technique is a gratitude exercise called "three good things." For a week, every evening before bed, write down three things that went well and why they went well. Or try this at work ... for example, start the morning huddle asking the group to identify three things that went well yesterday and why they went well. See how it feels after a week. Gratitude, like kindness, is contagious. True, none of these exercises will help with PESD (Post-EPIC Stress Disorder), but where we place our attention matters. Time is a precious, non-renewable resource; spend it wisely and intentionally.
For those of you who enjoy meditation, here is an audio only 6-minute
meditation
.
If meditation is not your thing, perhaps you will enjoy this offering:
"The Winter of Listening" by David Whyte
What is precious
inside us does not
care to be known
by the mind
in ways that diminish
its presence.
What we strive for
in perfection
is not what turns us
into the lit angel
we desire,
what disturbs
and then nourishes
has everything
we need.
What we hate
in ourselves
is what we cannot know
in ourselves but
what is true to the pattern
does not need
to be explained.
Inside everyone
is a great shout of joy
waiting to be born.
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Resident of the Block
"I worked with Thu during her FMIS block 4. She owned her team and knew her patients inside and out. She was diligent and incredibly organized. She could anticipate well and gave great signout. Was so efficient with notes, even with EPIC transition. What an asset to our team! Great work!"
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Block 5
Scott Goldberg, MD, PGY-3
Hahnemann Family Health Center
Scott Goldberg, MD is a 2015 graduate of Tulane University School of Medicine and earned his BS in Biology from University of Michigan in 2009. As a medical student, Scott was a teaching assistant and an anatomy tutor and volunteered at several student-run clinics. A Virginia native, Scott is interested in sports medicine. He also enjoys playing volleyball and cooking.
From our residents:
"I would like to nominate Scott for Resident of the Block! From day one Scott has been a colleague you can always count on to provide support, pass on words of wisdom whether it be a cool new medical app or constructive criticism (eg casually throwing in that your notes are essays, which they were), willing to go out of his way when a fellow resident is in need and most importantly, never failing to put a smile on your face!"
"He is a fantastic physician who his patients love (apparently there are several lovely elderly ladies who adore Dr. Goldberg), but also a great team player who does not shy away from the curb-side consults and weekend texts on how to survive being a senior. Thank you for the endless positive energy that you spread anywhere you go, being an inspirational colleague and doing an awesome job as scheduler! You are the best!"
Dr. Carter-Henry:
"Scott is an excellent physician and teacher. Everyone at the health center enjoys working with him. He has a great sense of humor. Scott has embraced his role as a senior and leader at the health center. He is working to improve the scheduling process and has great ideas! This is a much-deserved recognition. Congrats!"
Dr.Gracey: "Scott is a physician who not only takes excellent care of his patients but also invests time in systems-based improvements for his colleagues."
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Workshop Schedule/Additional WFMR News
PGY-1
12/26 Holiday Party
PGY-2
12/5 HC-Based
HC Faculty
12/12 End of Life/Palliative Care
Drs. Reidy/Mullin
12/19 Life Long Learning
Drs. Melnitsky, Baldor and Domino
12/26 Holiday Party
PGY-3
12/5 HC-Based
HC Faculty
12/12 Professional Liability Insurance
Thomas Bryant, PIAM
12/19 Life Long Learning (MCH topic, Melnitsky)
Drs. Baldor and Domino
12/26 Holiday Party
Residents/Fellows Changing Their Names
Any resident or fellow with a limited license who wishes to change their name must follow the attached
procedures,
per GME.
Recruitment Update
We are in the swing of another very full recruitment season, as we prepare to take a week off from interviews over the Thanksgiving holiday. We were pleased to meet some of our applicants at the
FMEC Annual Meeting
from
Nov. 10-12
in
Cleveland.
And as you can see from the below pic, WFMR was ready to party at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday night!
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Celebrations and Congratulations
Congratulations to
Michael Murphy, PGY-2
(Barre) and
Cara Scardino
on their beautiful October 14 wedding.
And congratulations too to their little ones Gavin (age 8) and Roman (11 months.)
Congratulations also to Ben Slocum, PGY-1, who got engaged to Katie Yanagisawa while hiking in the White Mountains at the end of September. Katie
is a Pediatrics resident at UMass and the two couples-matched to residency together.
Congratulations to 2017 WFMR graduate (and former Barre chief resident)
Ivonne McLean, MD who was just published in the Fall 2017 issue of
Family Doctor magazine. Her
article, co-written with
Martha Simmons, MD, is called "
Reproductive Coercion and Contraceptive Counseling:
The Role of the Family Physician."
Congratulations to our Family Medicine residents who are part of the newly-created
I
nterprofessional Trainee Quality Council (ITQC). UMass Memorial Medical Center and UMass Medical School have jointly created this trainee-led council, which brings together trainees across a variety of levels/ disciplines/ specialties to collaborate on various QI projects that align with departmental and institutional priorities. It's off to a great start and we are excited that our Family Medicine residents,
Anne Gifford, An-Hoa Giang, Efstathia Choros (vice-chair) and Fellow, Susan Boisvert-Hogan, are contributing to the ongoing work! We are looking forward to see the projects grow throughout the year.
11/16, Anne Gifford, PGY-1
11/29, Dr. Stacy Potts
12/5, Tamara Cullen
12/14, Olga Kuzina, PGY-3
12/19, Shannon Roche, PGY-2
12/19, Shameen Wijesundara, PGY-3
12/31, Thu Ngo, PGY-1
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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.
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