UMass FMCH Tuesday Talk - June 10, 2025/EDUCATION

Welcome to the FMCH Tuesday Talk. Please continue to send us your announcements, celebrations, and accomplishments to FMCHtuesdaytalk@umassmed.edu. 

Table of Contents

Upcoming Events

Focus of the Week - Education

Announcements

Presentations and Publications

Frankly Speaking Podcast

Resources

Upcoming Events

FMCH Grand Rounds

Tuesday, June 10th, 12:00 - 1:00pm, "Social Media and Youth Mental Health", 

presented by Jon Warczak, MD.

Meeting ID: 191 986 273 Passcode: FMCH

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/191986273?pwd=NEtlZmNkdWlSUGwyeTJQU3dCeUs1QT09

Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

Tuesday, June 17th, 8:00 - 5:00pm, "Early Childhood Mental Health: a Primer for Pediatric Primary Care Clinicians".

Registration Ticket Price by June 3rd $100, late registration or on site $115.

Link to register Early Childhood Mental Health below. https://umassmed.ungerboeck.com/prod/emc00/PublicSignIn.aspx?&aat=6d7637774c6f7967462f4a4e6d693431483859376a43514e32384a573455357633426855627055475071453d. For more information see flyer.

We are excited to report that both of our palliative care fellows will join our division after they graduate on June 30th!

• Philip Hewes, MD, will practice outpatient and inpatient palliative care.
• Marie King, MD, will practice inpatient palliative care with a focus on care of patients in the University Emergency Department.

Our palliative care faculty (including Carolyn Murphy and Jennifer Reidy) taught the 3rd year medical school class in required simulation training in goals-of-care conversations with patient actors during their medicine clerkships over AY24-25.

Jennifer Reidy and Liz Dykehouse served as faculty in the Clinical Pathway for 1st year medical students on the topics of communication skills and therapeutic relationships with skills practice.

STFM has released 5 modules (each approximately 15 minutes long) to support meaningful, effective mentorship in academic medicine. Whether you're mentoring faculty or learners, these modules offer practical, evidence-based tips to enhance mentoring across roles and settings.

Module topics include:

1. Mentorship Basics-developing the relationship
2. Navigating the Complexities of Mentoring--going beyond the basic; addressing deeper topics
3. Addressing Unique Needs of Historically Marginalized Groups-approaching mentees with sensitivity and understanding
4. Advancing in Academic Medicine-actionable steps to help mentees get to the next professional level
5. Difficult Conversations in Mentoring-giving corrective feedback; helping mentees deal with extreme pressures

We encourage you to take advantage of this valuable, free educational resource.

Access the modules here: Mentoring in Medicine Online Modules | STFM

On behalf of Ginny Van Duyne, Missy Gleckel, Liz Dykhouse, Eric Rosenthal, Susan Hogan, Trish Seymour, and Mary Lindholm:

As leaders of our 3 DFMCH residencies (Worcester FMR, Fitchburg FMR and Preventive Med) and at the medical school, we collaboratively facilitated an interactive workshop on written feedback, with the goal of identifying both expectations for completion of written evaluations of learners and strategies for improving our completion rates and quality of written feedback. 

DFMCH Expectations for Completion of Written Evaluations of Residents and Medical Students:

• Complete 1 written evaluation every session/shift you supervise a resident 60% of the time.
• Complete 60% of WBAs the student sends.
• Communicate feedback about students to main preceptor for summative evaluation.

Strategies for Improving Written Feedback:

• Use AI: Use voice to text in ChatGPT to transcribe your verbal feedback then copy/paste this written feedback into the evaluation system.
• WFMR & FFMR: Download the MedHUB app and save your log in to your phone so you don’t have to remember your password each time. Email Cassindra.wamester@umassmemorial.org (WFMR) or 

angelique.ranno@umassmemorial.org (FFMR) if you need your password reset.

• UMass Chan: Remind the medical student to initiate a WBA and provide a QR code for you to use right then and there (instead of having them send it after they leave your session).
• Use the open-faced sandwich strategy to decrease stereotype threat:
• Framing statement: “I’m giving you these comments because I have high expectations and I'm confident you can reach them.”
• Give a specific affirmation of their skill/strength in this area.
• Give a piece of specific feedback about a behavior.(not personality/character)
• Use the BOSS mnemonic:
• Brief Observation: “I saw/noticed…”
• Significance: “That’s important because…”
• Suggestion: “I recommend that you look at/try to/use…”

 Check out the slides with more resources here.

Announcements

Summer Scholarship Writing Circles

Mondays in June & July, 12:00-1:00pm

Have you been putting off that scholarly project? Have you had difficulty making time to write? Summer Scholarship Writing Circles provide the space and time for you to make progress on that paper, presentation or curriculum. The hybrid (in-person and virtual) sessions will consist mostly of quiet writing time, with an opportunity to get support from your faculty peers. In-person (Lamar Soutter Library Conference Room at UMass Chan Medical School) & virtual options for participation.

REGISTER

MedMoth is happening THIS Wednesday June 11th at 5:30pm in the ASC Multipurpose room. Med Moth is an event based on The Moth Story Hour where 6-8 members of the UMass Community (SOM, GSN, GSBS, Baystate, and Lahey) share stories for 5-10 minutes each. Each talk is about the speaker's journey into medicine, meaningful patient encounters, or other experiences that have shaped their personal or professional identity in health care. At this installment of MedMoth, we will also be having several patients share their stories with us. We seek to highlight a diverse collection of voices and capture the richness of experiences of the members of our UMass-Chan community. You can also join the event virtually via Zoom at the following link:

https://umassmed.zoom.us/j/94029352275?pwd=OmsZlIVwuHqgGTIMBBad0DGaTs5NRh.1 

Film Premiere of VITAL SIGNS and Panel - Advocating for Deaf Health Access

Tuesday, June 17th, 4-6pm

Hosted by UMass Chan Medical School, Center for Living and Working, and DEAF YE - Center for Deaf Empowerment and Recovery. 18 Chestnut Street, Worcester, MA.

RSVP melissa.anderson@umassmed.edu.

UMass Chan has announced the timeline for application for this year’s Remillard Family Community Service Fund. The Fund is dedicated solely to providing ongoing support for a variety of community outreach programs provided by faculty, clinical staff, residents and students of UMass Chan Medical School. As such, the chancellor of the Medical School or his assignees will use the annual distributions of this endowed fund to support community service programs designed and executed by these groups for the benefit of the community. Proposals are due no later than June 23rd, 2025 and the budget cannot exceed $20,000 for one year of duration. More information is available here.

The Road to Care Mobile Clinic will be hosting the final cohort of Transforming Care ECHO: Harm Reduction, Overdose Prevention, and Management of Opioid Use Disorder. This is a unique remote learning opportunity that will cover the basics of caring for patients with OUD as well as offer feedback and expert guidance on patient cases. Sessions will run remotely on Thursdays from 12-1pm every other week now through June 26th. This ECHO is made possible through the generous support of the RIZE foundation. Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/X8z25aNFsH

The 2025-2026 BRC Fellowship Call for Applications Is Open

The Building Research Capacity (BRC) Fellowship has 3 aims:

• Coaching: Provide coaching support to build research and scholarship capacity within a program or institution
• Support: Develop a peer support network among other individuals or teams trying to build research capacity
• Strategic Planning: Create a strategic plan for research and scholarship within their home program/institution

Applications are due July 30, 2025. Learn more and apply here!

Private Funding Opportunities

The Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) team distributes via email a bi-weekly digest summarizing upcoming private funding opportunities to the UMass Chan Medical School community. Sign up today by emailing DevelopmentFundingDigest@umassmed.edu. The CFR team is here to help members of the UMass Chan community generate curated lists of foundation and institutional philanthropy opportunities. Contact us to learn about tools and foundations that support faculty, postdocs, predocs, graduate students and medical school students. Please contact the CFR team before approaching any foundation or private philanthropic funder.

Another funding resource is: https://www.rwjf.org/en/grants/active-funding-opportunities/2025/exploring-equitable-futures.html?rid=003VN00000FHgqEYAT&et_cid=2199758

Due October 15th, 2025.

Presentations and Publications

Jill Grimes is pleased to share her new book, The ULTIMATE College Student Health Handbook: Your Guide for Everything from Hangovers to Homesickness, was selected for OPRAH’s: “The 50 Best Gifts for Graduates They’ll Actually Use!”

50th Anniversary Video!

Check out this video about our Department’s 50 years: 

https://vimeo.com/1067353936/5af9ebbea9?share=copy

Frankly Speaking Podcast

Please join us for a weekly Podcast series for an overview: Many Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are improperly treated with inhaled corticosteroids (ICS), increasing their risk of harm. This episode explores the latest evidence on long-term ICS risks and provides practical guidance to help you align COPD care with current guidelines-improving outcomes while minimizing adverse effects like pneumonia, cataracts, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and osteoporosis. Guest: Jillian Joseph, PA-C, 

presents, "Rethinking ICS in COPD: Reducing Harm with Guideline-Based Strategies". Frankly Speaking Ep 436. Listen on Apple Podcasts:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frankly-speaking-about-family-medicine/id1194659367

Resources

Resources to promote Family Medicine Proud and celebrate our 50th Anniversary: 

a PowerPoint template, Zoom backgrounds, logo etc:  

https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/faculty-resources/department-logos/

Past editions of the Tuesday Talk are available at 

https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/ under Resources.

The UMass Memorial Caring for Caregivers Program is available at 508-334-HELP,

EAP at 866-263-3525, and the UMass Chan EAP at 800-322-5327.

www.LiveandWorkWell.com 

Yoga Classes with Dr. Liz Erban.

New members always welcome. 

Please join us on Wednesday(s), 6:30-7:30am, for a gentle awakening yoga session led by the talented Liz Erban.

https://umassmed.zoom.us/j/91343267992?pwd=ZHF3NHVrVlR1MVdMV09HSE5lTzdsQT09