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Reminder: ALL April 2025 M4 GRADES ARE DUE NOW!

ICYMI: Student Needlestick/Injury Protocol

Though we hope you never have to encounter a student having a needlestick or injury, we know these things can occasionally happen. We want you to be prepared, so we've created a protocol for residents, faculty, and students to follow. This information is readily available to the students but often can be forgotten in the moment after a needlestick or injury occurs. It's for this reason that we ask residents and faculty to be aware of the protocol so you can assist students in these rare occurrences. For more information, visit the Injury and Needlestick Protocol website.

1. Have the student seek medical care
2. Send your student to the nearest emergency room or site-specified location. Do not delay!
3. Remind the student to report the injury
4. Students need to make senior residents, attending physicians, or supervising faculty aware of the needlestick or injury right away.
5. Students must also email MDHealthRecords@wayne.edu to report the needlestick or injury right away.
6. Remind students to complete the necessary forms
7. Students must complete site-specific forms.
8. Students must also complete the Report of Injury Form (to be submitted to the WSU Office of Risk Management). 
9. Encourage the student to follow up
10. Remind students to reach out to the Office of Student Affairs for support. 
11. Remind students to remain in contact with the WSU Health Officer. 
12. Remind students to schedule follow-up testing and care with their PCP.

Click to download this helpful one-pager and QR code to print and hang in your student spaces!

Looking for Teaching Support? Check out the OLT Learning Library!

The OLT Learning Library is a dynamic resource designed to empower clinician educators with cutting-edge knowledge and skills in medical education. Featuring over 30 comprehensive modules, enriched with teaching resources and an engaging micro-video series, the library offers flexible, asynchronous learning experiences to help you enhance your expertise at your own pace.

To access our learning library, visit the Canvas Innovations in Teaching site and self-enroll, or use the QR code below. To sign in, you will need to use your Wayne State University access ID (ab1234) and password.

We recommend exploring the following modules first:

Introduction to Teaching

Creating a Respectful Learning Environment

Feedback

M4 Grades Get a Much-Needed Revamp

Due to your amazing success in getting M3 grades promptly available to students (and financial aid awardees), we're implementing a new grading process this year requiring just two weeks to turn in grades. This is incredibly important to our students' continued success and growth in their senior year before they head out to residencies around the country.

We need your help to make these efforts as much of a success as our M3 grading efforts in previous years, so here are some steps to this new process:

1. Students will request evaluations early to be sure they have matched with appropriate preceptors and those preceptors are on New Innovations (NI) and can access their portal. (Email records@med.wayne.edu for assistance with NI.)
2. Grades will be due on the last day of the students' rotation (typically the last day of the month).
3. Preceptors and students will discuss how the student did during the rotation and what they can do to improve.
4. The SOM will check how many grades have been submitted at our CQI point at mid-month. Tardy grades will be escalated to Department Chairs and UGME Directors as necessary.
5. By changing the timeline and culture of the grading process, we ensure timely feedback so that students can work on graduation competencies throughout the whole year, and end up better prepared for residency. They will also be able to get their financial aid on time!

Congratulations to Our 305 Graduates!

Congratulations to our Class of 2025 students! This incredibly smart bunch walked across the Fox stage on Thursday, May 8 to join our distinguished alumni as Medical Doctors! We're so proud of their success and can't wait to see them in EDs, clinics, and operating rooms across the country in just a few weeks. Thank you to all of our resident and faculty educators who helped them reach this exciting day.

Now on to the next class!

Catch Some Friendly OLT Faces at This AAMC AI Webinar Series

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, but do you have the skills to use it effectively as a medical educator? The AAMC has put together a great new resident and faculty development opportunity all about AI and this new age of medicine that we hope you'll take advantage of.

Catch some friendly WSU SOM OLT faces as they join the AAMC's team of educators to discuss AI and how you can best use it in your medical education. This 10-session webinar series will be great for building your AI fluency and making sure you're confident in your AI abilities so you can be the best educator you can be.

Click here to register today!

Coming on June 1: Resident/Faculty Teaching Awards!

It seems like only yesterday that we were honoring our unbelievable residents and faculty for their role in educating our students, but here we are again itching to award our educators for all that they do. We're already hard at work reading evaluations and calculating who our students have decided is the best of the best, so keep an eye out for your teaching awards coming soon!

Have You Checked Out Our New Resident and Faculty Handbook Yet?

We've made some important updates to our Resident & Faculty Handbook. Now you can access the handbook online to see live updates. Plus, you'll have all of the most important information right at your fingertips with search capability! We recommend all residents and faculty to review the handbook before working with students.

Click here to view the new and improved handbook!

Click to Access the Clinical Faculty Website

Click to Access the New and Improved Resident & Faculty Handbook!

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