Welcome to the FMCH Tuesday Talk. Please continue to send us your announcements, celebrations, and accomplishments to FMCHtuesdaytalk@umassmed.edu.
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Table of Contents
Upcoming Events
Focus of the Week - Education
Announcements
Frankly Speaking Podcast
Faculty Presentations/Publications
Department Member Recognition
Clinical Services Spotlight
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Upcoming Events
FMCH Town Hall
Tuesday, January 11th, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Meeting ID: 191 986 273 Passcode: FMCH
Department of Medicine Grand rounds
Thursday, January 13th, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Ronit Elk, PhD, FAAPM, presents: The Critical role of Understand and Respecting Culture and Lived Experience of Racism in Palliative Care: Caring for our African American Patients and Their Families
Streamed Remotely via Zoom. Register in advance for this webinar:
FMCH Grand Rounds
Tuesday, January 18th, 12:00 - 1:00 pm, Anne Gifford, MD, presents: Dementia
Meeting ID: 191 986 273 Passcode: FMCH
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Focus of the Week - Education
Undergraduate Medical Education
VISTA Curriculum Revolution
The school continues to build the new curriculum and the resources to support this innovative design. A call for faculty leadership will be coming out soon. There is additional information on the leadership roles at the following website. Vista Leadership Roles (umassmed.edu)
The Match
Best wishes to our many fourth year medical students choosing Family Medicine. Rank deadlines are coming quick and we hope all the seniors find the perfect match for the residency of their dreams. Thank you to the many faculty who have supported students throughout their years at UMass Chan. Your role modeling and mentorship is critical to sharing the joys of Family Medicine and encouraging others to find their passion in the field.
Graduate Medical Education
Fellowship Match
Congratulations to our fellowships as they have had quite successful matches.
The Hospice and Palliative Care Fellowship welcomes Shaun Toomey, MD. He will be the new HPM fellow for 2022-23. He was an internal medicine resident here at UMass and is currently a pulmonary critical-care fellow who will finish in June 2022 before starting with us this summer. Dr. Reidy shares he is an incredible human being and skilled yet humble clinician, and we are very lucky to have him join our team.
Sports Medicine also enthusiastically welcomes their matched fellows. Emily Eshelman, DO, is well known to many of us as a PGY-3 Family Medicine and Chief Resident at Fitchburg. She went to Holyoke for undergrad and then got her MPH from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She went to PCOM for Medical School and is a DO. Adam Ridley, MD, is currently a PGY-3 at the Medical University of South Carolina Family Medicine Residency Program. He is originally from Westborough, MA. He went to BC for undergraduate studies and then onto South Carolina for Medical School.
Preventive Medicine Fellowship welcomes WFMR own: Pratiksha Yalakkishettar, MD, a third year resident at the HFHC, and Brittany Reid, MD, third year resident at the BFHC. Congratulations to all!
FHCW HIV and Viral Hepatitis Fellowship welcomes WFMR own as well: Laurel Banach, MD, third year resident at the FHCW. Congratulations!
Our department and community are fortunate to have such outstanding physicians staying in our midst. With much gratitude to the faculty and program directors, as well as our learners, for all the work that goes into recruitment – soon we will have our residency match and behavioral health fellow announcements as well! Best wishes all around.
ACGME FM Residency Requirement Revisions
The requirement revisions proposal is open for public comment until 1/28. Make sure your voice is heard. Find the new requirements and the form for comments at: Review and Comment (acgme.org)
Faculty Development
The Annual Professional Reviews will occur again this Spring with meetings likely to occur in May. As we continue to face the current COVID surge, we will hold off the mentorship meeting planned for later this month. The mentorship program will begin again following the faculty APR with a kick off late in the summer or in the early Fall. Consider your mentorship needs and make sure to include them in your APR form and discuss with your supervisor.
Listening sessions for Vision 2030 are wrapping up with a few more through the beginning of February. Thank you to everyone who has participated. We have gathered important information about perspectives from across the department. Feel free to add further comment by emailing to stacy.potts@umassmemorial.org or Philip.day@umassmed.edu
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Announcements
Mick Huppert Community Health Scholar Awards
If you are working on a community engaged initiative with a second year medical or nursing student, please reinforce for them this opportunity: For the fourth year, the annual Mick Huppert Community Health Scholar awards will be given to second year medical and graduate school of nursing students who have demonstrated a commitment to community engaged service and scholarship. Students should also have an interest in a career as a family physician or family nurse practitioner. Between two and four awards, each up to $2,500 will support awardees’ proposed community health initiatives. Medical and nursing student pairs will be considered and are encouraged. A pair would split one award. Click the link to get to the full announcement and application form. https://umassmed.edu/fmch/communityhealth/sep/mick-huppert-community-health-scholar-awards/ Applications due to Suzanne.Cashman@umassmed.edu by January 17, 2022.
White Belt Training Opportunity - Upcoming LEAN Training
UMassMemorial Health is committed to disseminate LEAN management tools to all physicians and clinicians and offer leadership development to our providers. Practicing LEAN principles enables team building and promotes respect to our fellow caregivers. It’s a platform that fosters innovation and improves the care we provide to our patients — as well as to advance our own work environment. LEAN is practiced by many caregivers in our health care system. Physicians and clinicians should be educated and have the tools needed to implement successful huddles, idea board systems and process improvement efforts. Our department will offer LEAN white belt training through two upcoming grand rounds. The first session will be a great refresher for those trained many years ago and the second session will include important updates including how to use Innovation Station. For individuals who have not done LEAN training in the past, this is an opportunity to meet the institution's requirement for white belt certification.
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January 25th, 12-1pm: LEAN White Belt: Part 2 - Innovation Station
If you are unable to make these trainings and are in need of certification, additional
Lean White Belt training registration is available through E-learning 4U.
Volunteers needed for WFCC
Worcester Free Care Collaborative is always in need of volunteer family physicians and family nurse practitioners to support its mission to address needs of the uninsured and underinsured of our community. We also need help with pediatric vaccine program management. You fill find it fulfilling to address needs for vulnerable patients and work with highly motivated student volunteers. Contact student leader Tyler Healy (tyler.healy@umassmed.edu) for needs across the 6 programs or Danielle Heims-Waldron (danielle.heimswaldron@umassmed.edu) for Monday night’s Epworth program.
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Frankly Speaking Podcast
A weekly Podcast series covering newsworthy topics in primary care medicine.
Please join us for an overview: Chronic pain affects 20% of people in the United States, and chronic low back pain is the most common cause of chronic pain. Although some treatments can reduce the severity of the pain, the persistence of chronic low back pain is a source of frustration for both patients and clinicians. Join us to discuss how behavioral and psychological therapy should be part of the treatment for chronic low back pain and how new approaches may be much more effective than existing therapies. Guest: Alan Ehrlich, MD, FAAFP, presents: "A Brainy Approach to Treating Chronic Low Back Pain". - Frankly Speaking Ep 258.
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Faculty Presentations/Publications
Sara Shields, MD, gave a Zoom session with MS4 students doing Frank Domino’s professionalism elective, about “Life Skills: Looking at Art” on Tuesday, January 4, 2022
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Department Member Recognition
Pablo Hernandez, CMO at Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center authored an opinion letter, Trust Science, not unfounded beliefs, assumptions or worse in the January 5th issue of the Worcester T&G.
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Clinical Services Spotlight: |
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COVID-19 UPDATES
COVID Global
There are more than 307 million cases of COVID around the world. People with Omicron often develop a scratchy or sore throat along with nasal congestion, a dry cough and muscle pain, especially low back pain. Symptoms are similar to the common cold and to the Delta Variant.
Our team is taking precautions and has elected to see patients with symptoms by telehealth if needed. After consultation, patients may be directed to the testing site for testing and given directives to maintain social distancing, wear a mask, and begin isolation or quarantine while awaiting results.
COVID Pre-procedure Home Testing
Beginning shortly, the system will begin at home testing for patients scheduled for procedures. The goal is that the information is available for all groups and the testing instructions will be available for patients in multiple languages. All pre-procedure testing must be completed within 72 hours of the scheduled procedure. The testing is PCR testing and results must be visible in EPIC.
COVID Update MA
- The total confirmed MA COVID cases are 1,186,137.
- The 7-day average of percent positivity is 23.02%.
- There are 2,637 patients hospitalized with 421 in the ICU with 245 intubated.
- The 7-day hospital rate is 2,287.
- There are 20,106 confirmed deaths.
- There are 42,029 breakthrough cases in MA.
UMMMC COVID Update
- Confirmed COVID cases in house at UMMHC is 254 with 185 in UMMMC.
- This includes 109 in acute care and 37 in ICU.
- Of the 185 COVID positive patients, 87 are fully vaccinated, 47%.
- The 7-day positivity average is 35.6%.
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Wellness Resources
The Caring for the Caregiver Program provides resources such as the Caregiver Support Line (508-334-HELP) and The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which offers a variety of services and supports (including virtual peer support and wellness tips. EAP can be accessed at 866-263-3525, or www.LiveandWorkWell.com, [company code UmassMemorial]. More information is available on the Caring for the Caregiver page.
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Yoga Classes with Dr. Liz Erban
New Yoga Link!
Our Yoga class hit the 1 year anniversary - which in zoomland means we need a new link. Happy anniversary yogis and much gratitude to our fearless leader, Liz!
Also, a great time to join, new members always welcome. Start your mid week with some relaxing yoga!
Please join department members for early morning gentle yoga, Wednesday mornings 6:30am via Zoom.
Join Zoom Meeting ID: 923 9393 3653 Passcode: 764113
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Zumba with Dr. Anna Zheng
Zumba Monday 6am is on hold.
On hold until the new year in 2022.
Thursdays 6:15pm: In-person or ZOOM
Please join department members Thursday evenings at 6:15pm**(30 Anna Street: tall & spacious indoor location) and get moving with Zumba. Please note details and any changes via webpage: http://annazheng.zumba.com/. ZOOM still possible for all classes.
Much appreciation to Dr. Anna Zheng for hosting these outstanding classes. New to the class? Please email Dr. Zheng at ZumbawithAnnaZheng@gmail.com to register, complete brief health screen if it's your first class and the ZOOM link.
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