Welcome from Dr. Hamill Welcome to the Spring 2018 edition of Premedicated

Monthly! Since the beginning of November, the Education Office and many of our residents and faculty have been busy with the interview process for our 2018 intern class. We have seen some exceptional candidates this year. Be-cause of our September move to the McNair Campus, the interview season presented some logistical challenges, but overall has been quite seamless. I would like to particularly thank Suzie Wilson, Joni Owens and Haider Salloomi for their tremendous efforts to organize this complicated

process and make it so successful. We completed the in-terview process at the end of January and then embark on the difficult task of constructing our match list. I am confi-

dent we will have another great match.

As part of our Strategic Planning process that launched last year, we identified several initiatives that are now ongoing. Stephanie Sherman and Zaven Sargsyan have provided approximately 6 workshops in Delivering Feedback to Trainees. These have been very productive and, due to the quality of the presentations, other depart-ments are reaching out to benefit from them. We will be starting Teaching at the Bedside soon. In an effort to facili-tate research opportunities for medical students, residents and fellows, we have distributed the 2016 version of our Research Brochures to representatives from all of the De-partment of Medicine sections and requested that they be updated. In addition, we have requested DoM faculty to provide a list of projects that we can include in a “Want Ads” that are ready for trainees to immediately start partici-pating in. We have negotiated with the Baylor Office of Philanthropy to allow us to use the E. Lillo Crain Fund to augment our travel funds for meetings for residents and fellows. This fund was established in 1975 to allow incom-ing interns to buy a telephone; how times have changed. The fund is still available to provide loans up to $2500 for housestaff who require short-term financial help for various

reasons; the payback terms are very friendly.

Abstract forms are now being distributed for the

DoM Housestaff Research Symposium that will be held

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WELCOME From the Rising Chiefs We’ve had a very eventful past few months! Since the last newsletter, we have celebrated the holidays, enjoyed a fun department party and witnessed multiple snow days in Houston! December also brought the Internal Medicine Fellowship Match—we are so proud of all the residents who matched into incredible programs! We know that this time of year can be tough, with hospitals that are at capacity and patients who are very sick. Keep up the strong work—we are so thankful to have residents who work tirelessly to provide the best care, even during busy winter months. There is so much to look forward to in the spring season, including resident retreat, BCM Live!, residents presenting at multiple upcoming conferences and the medical school residency match. Your dedication and hard work never ceases to amaze us. Please enjoy this newsletter, which highlights all the incredible things

you do.

Jon, Orhue, Shradha, Ryle, and Victoria

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Welcome

1 Dr. Hamill’s Welcome

2 Fellowship Match

3 Internal Medicine Resident Spotlight

4 Global Health Initiative

5 Recent Resident Achievements

6 Upcoming National Conferences

7 Housestaff Fund Thank You

7 Houston Food Bank

8 Teamwork on the Wards

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Baylor IM Resident Activities

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on April 5, 2018, in the Rayzor Lounge at Main Baylor. All medical students, residents, fellows and post-doctoral fel-lows whose mentors are faculty in the Department of Medicine are eligible to apply. Please get your abstracts into our

office by March 12, 2018.

We have just confirmed that Richard Lange, MD, MBA, will be our Chief Medical Residents’ Visiting Professor from June 12-14, 2018. Dr. Lange is president of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso and dean of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine. He is credited with the first medical podcast, PodMED, which has been pro-duced weekly in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine for the past 9 years. He will deliver

the Chief Medical Residents’ Visiting Professor Lecture on June 14.

Internal Medicine Resident Spotlight

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Reina and Brett Styskel won the ACGME Back to Bed-side grant this year! They collaborated to start Human-ism Rounds, a project to help foster the human connec-tion between trainees and patients. Here’s the scoop

on their initiative!

Tell us about your project: Our project, “Humanism Rounds,” is a 3-layer project designed to strengthen residents’ connections with our patients. The first layer is to change the way we take patient histories to in-clude getting to know the patient as a human being in concert with their medical history, what we call a “human history.” The second layer is designating time within our wards blocks to better connect with our patients. There will be protected time to do what gives us residents the most joy and meaning in our work—connect with our patients, which will take place at the bedside during “humanism rounds.” The third layer includes sharing interesting human histo-ries at noon conference, grand rounds and the BCM-IM retreat, in the form of videography collected by residents from inspirational patients who volunteer

to be interviewed throughout the year.

What was the inspiration for your idea? The in-spiration to create our proposal came from our an-nual BCM-IM retreat. When residents were asked to share what brings them joy and meaning in their work at the retreat, many responded “caring for pa-tients.” We find joy and meaning in our work when we give great care to patients with whom we have

strong connections.

What was your process in drafting your study design? While talking with our faculty mentors, we realized that many physicians who derive the most meaning in their work do so because of the connection they make with their patients. We believed that funda-mentally changing the way histories were taken by resi-dents and increasing the time able to be spent at bed-side with their patients would be key to fostering better resident-patient relationships. We also wanted to com-pile videography of patient stories to remind residents of the great service they provide to patients who have

led amazing lives and are appreciative of their healthcare.

What kind of impact do you hope to have with your project? We hope the humanism round project will in-crease residents’ perceptions of meaning in their work and therefore resident wellness. Furthermore, we hope to spread this more humanistic form of history-taking and humanism rounds to other residencies within and beyond Baylor College of Medicine to improve resident wellness nationwide with the help of the ACMGE back-to-bedside

initiative.

How can other residents get involved with wellness in our residency program? BCM IM has a fantastic well-ness committee that already implements wellness activi-ties through our wellness curriculum. We will be asking for volunteers through the committee and also making more formal presentations about our project throughout the year, introducing specific ways that residents can help

participate in the project.

Cecilia Cai’s story about traveling to Gambia!

In late 2017, I had the privilege of going to The Gambia on a global health rotation with the Gilead scholarship. There, I worked at the Medical Research Council (MRC). The Clinical Services Department at MRC comprises a 42-bed ward (pediatric and adult), an outpatient clinic, X-ray department and routine diagnostic laboratories. I spent most weekdays on the ward with once- or twice-weekly clin-ics. The ward was busy and sometimes there were only 2-3 physicians available to round and admit. I saw a variety of cases, from HIV in pediatric patients, TB, malaria, to rheu-

matic heart disease.

Our patients were also very sick and, in the US, would likely have required ICU-level care. However, as there is no ICU in our facility, we managed them on the floor. MRC physicians are excellent clinicians, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much we were able to do in the low-resource setting. During the weekends, I explored with other visitors. The Gambia is a tourist destination, so there are many

tourist attractions, including restaurants, beaches, local

markets, and park tours.

This was one of the best rotations of resi-dency, and I would highly recommend it to any-one interested in global health! Feel free to contact me if you are interested in learning

more (cecilia.cai@bcm.edu).

Global Health Initiative

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The MRC

Ward clinical staff (physicians and

nurses) at the MRC

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Baylor IM residents do amazing things locally and globally and receive recognition for their efforts. From education to research to Global Health, the Baylor IM team is leaving its

mark on medicine. Here are a few examples:

David McCormick: Donna L. Tyungu, Carla Lee Lau, David McCormick, Ro-jelia Mejia, Henry Pollack. "Parasites in the Park Part 2: An Epidemiologic study of Toxocara spp in NYC playgrounds and use of a Novel Soil-transmitted Helminth Identification Tool." ASTMH 66th Annual Meeting, November, 2017, Bal-

timore, MD.

Nicole Canon: Abstract presentation "Numb to the Diagnosis" received 1st place in the SHM Houston Chapter Resident Abstract Award Competition and received a scholarship to attend

the National SHM conference.

Recent Resident Achievements

Yasmin Marcantonio and Kevin Ting: Marcantonio, Y. C., Kulkarni, P. A., Sachs, S., Ting, K., Lee, J., & Mendoza, D. (2017). Disseminated Pasteurella multocida infection: Cellulitis, osteomy-elitis, and myositis. IDCases, 10, 68–70.

doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.09.004

Congratulations to the Academy of Resident Educators Resident-Teacher Awardees!

Quarter 1: Cody Moore (PGY-1), Bob Streck

(PGY-2), and Nathan Nowalk (PGY-3)

Quarter 2: Chiemeziem Eke (PGY-1), Justin Arunthamakun (PGY-2), and Shradha Kulkarni

(PGY-3)

Quarter 2 Resident-Teacher Awardees: Chiemeziem, Justin and Shradha

Upcoming National Conferences

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BCM Department of Medicine Research Symposium is on April 5, 2018. Dead-

line to submit is March 12, 2018!

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Thanks to those who were able to attend the IM Resident Wellness Committee event at the Houston Food Bank on De-cember 2nd! Residents, faculty (and their kids!) spent several hours packaging meals for Houston’s neediest families. It was an afternoon filled with laughter, sweat, and genuine inspiration. We hope you can join us at future events to promote

the well-being of our trainees and our community!

Thank You! The Internal Medicine Residency Program would like to thank the following individuals who generously donated to the Bay-lor College of Medicine Housestaff Fund that is used to support the Holiday Party and Graduation Dinner. If you have not had the opportunity to donate this academic year and would like to do so, please go to https://www.bcm.edu/giving, select

“Donate”, then “Other” under “Designation” and enter the “Baylor House Staff Fund.”

Houston Food Bank

Arunima Misra Ihab Hamzeh Paul Klotman Jane Butel David Corry

Susanne Savely Lee Bach Lu Susan Hilsenbeck David Graham Cynthia Peacock

Sandeep Agarwal George Dolson Erica Lescinskas Wayne Shandera Sankar Navaneethan

Carlos Ramos David Berman Hani Jneid Jung Park Zaven Sargsyan

Major Bradshaw Mark Entman Vivian Ho David Hyman Addison Taylor

Biykem Bozkurt Fidaa Shaib Stephanie Sherman Ursula Braun Prasad Manian

Susan Escudier Diana Stewart Barry Goodfriend Robert Atmar Hashem El-Serag

Ellen Manzullo Barry Zeluff Thomas Giordano Anoop Agrawal Katie Scally

Kent Osborne Cara Foldes Aziz Shaibani Joan Appleyard Dennis Villareal

Reina Villareal Barbara Trautner Laila Woc-Colburn Richard Hamill David Sheikh-Hamad

David Paniagua Fasiha Kanwal Andrew Caruso Lindsey Jordan Horacio Androgue

Anita Kusnoor David Tweardy George Parkerson Nicola Hanania Maria Rodriguez-Barradas

Neeraj Agrawal William Mitch Jing Kees Stacey Rose Cezarina Mindru

James Herlihy Chirayu Shah Lubna Khawaja Shira Sachs Wolfgang Winkelmayer

Teamwork on the wards!

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