Dear GME Community,
Cindy Hamra Associate Dean, GME
Happy New Year! On the heels of celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day at the start of the week, we encourage you to visit the UW Medicine Office of Healthcare Equity’s Cultivating a Beloved Community Mindset to Transform Unjust Systems page and participate in the UW Medicine Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Survey (more information below).
January News and Notes includes information about the Residency & Fellowship Position Appointment Agreement for 2023-2024 and our new Leave of Absence resource page for trainees. We also hope you’ll join us for upcoming events including a GME Meet & Greet for new program leadership and an Outreach event with lunch for trainees.
Also a reminder to check out Dr. Joyner’s January Blog, authored by Dr. Heather Barnett of the Care of Patients Experiencing Incarceration (CPEI) Task Force, regarding that group’s work on improving care of patients experiencing incarceration.
Please share information that you’d like included by sending to me at hamrac@uw.edu.
Thank you,
Cindy
Program Information
- The GMEC has approved appointment of the following new program director; appointments await ACGME confirmation:
- Vikas O’Reilly-Shah, MD, PhD, Data and Technology in Anesthesiology
- Antonio Westphalen, MD, PhD, Abdominal Imaging (Interim)
- The GMEC approved revisions to the following policy at the December meeting. All policies are posted on the Policies and Procedures page of the GME website.
- The revised 2023-2024 Residency and Fellowship Position Appointment (RFPA) Agreement, which will take effect July 1, 2023, and a summary of changes to the agreement. The agreement is now available on the Policies and Procedures, Current Residents and Fellows, and Prospective Residents and Fellows pages of the GME website. The RFPA is included in the onboarding materials for incoming residents and fellows, and we also recommend that programs review the agreement with trainees at the time of initial appointment and reappointment. Programs currently interviewing candidates for the 2023-2024 academic year must provide candidates with a copy of the updated agreement.
- The ACGME has a weekly e-Communication. If you wish to receive it, email ACGMECommunications@acgme.org.
Events of Interest
- Upcoming GME Lunch & Learns
- GME Meet & Greet: January 2023 on January 26 from 9:00 – 9:45 am on Zoom. Join in meeting some of our GME Office staff, learning about their roles and responsibilities. This is highly recommended for new Program Directors and Program Administrators but welcome to all.
- GME Outreach Event for trainees at UWMC-ML on February 2nd from 11 am to 1 pm. We encourage trainees to stop by to say hello, meet our GME team members and take a packed lunch. Please look for an email closer to the event with specific room details.
- Please join the UW Network of Underrepresented Residents and Fellows (NURF) for a Diversity Lecture Series event by Dr. Denisse Tiznado (she/her/ella). She will be teaching about Activism Burnout & Fatigue.
- When: Monday January 30th at 7pm.
- Where: Register to receive the zoom link.
- Other GME Events can be found on our calendar.
Projects and Resources
The GME Annual Program Timeline has been updated and is now organized by activity type, eg ACGME Accreditation, Appointments and Onboarding, Program Activities, Recruitment. Please review the updated document and note the important dates for January and February.- A new opt-in module from Learning Gateway is now available. Prioritizing Ourselves When Fatigued is a 5 minute module intended as a brief reminder on the important issue of fatigue. Programs can complete this survey to opt in for an October or January launch for trainees. Learning Gateway is happy to answer any questions about the module.
- Our new Leave of Absence webpage is now live on the GME website. Here you will find LOA planning information and resources along with an intake form to contact GME for leave planning assistance: Leave Planning Submission Form. This form can be completed by trainees or program leadership. The December 2022 Lunch & Learn on ‘Leave Policy and Guidelines’ provides an overview of both these new resources; please review the recording and slides.
- On January 17, UW Medicine launched an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Survey to identify baseline measures of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion across UW Medicine and provide actionable data to help prioritize areas for work at the entity and departmental levels. All UW Medicine faculty, staff, and trainees are invited to complete the survey which will take about 10-15 minutes to complete. The survey will be open until Feb. 28, 2023.
- The NRMP will be holding an Introduction to the Fellowship Match webinar for NRMP Match participating specialties on Thursday, February 16, from 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. Learn about program staff roles and responsibilities, managing your program’s participation in the Match, ranking applicants, and important policy information. Advance registration is required.
- The Huddle article “Helping Blacking Moms in Medicine Manage Child Care” features resources for our community members.
- The GME Office is currently recruiting for a Site and Contract Management Specialist, Accreditation Team (see posting, req. 212955)
People
- Alwiya Ahmed, R3, Internal Medicine, is co-author of “Trends in Labor Unionization Among US Health Care Workers, 2009-2021” in JAMA.
- Justin Bullock, fellow, Nephrology, is co-author of “Opportunities and challenges in discussing racism during primary care visits” in Health Services Research.
- The Department of Medicine was founded in 1948 with an original group of six stellar faculty members teaching and practicing at a single site. They are now the largest department at the University of Washington. Please visit their website where they look back at 75 of the changemakers who have shaped their history and 75 of their many emerging leaders who are helping to chart the path forward.
- Byron Joyner, Vice Dean for GME and DIO, is quoted in “Despite a rich history, UW struggles to enroll Black medical students” in University of Washington Magazine.
- Noam Kopmar, fellow, is lead author and Ryan Cassaday, associate professor (Hematology) is senior author of “How I Prevent and Treat Central Nervous System Disease in Adults with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia” in Blood.
- Henry Ou, Program Director, Pediatric Otolaryngology, is quoted in “4 reasons to put down the Q-tip and love your earwax” in Popular Science.
- Hongyang Pi, fellow, is co-lead author and Peter Leary, associate professor, and Sina Gharib, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) are co-senior authors of “Metabolomic Signatures Associated With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Outcomes” in Circulation Research. Department of Medicine co-authors are David Ralph and Samuel Rayner.
- Andrew Portuguese, fellow, Hematology, is lead author, and Christopher Blosser, clinical professor (Nephrology) is senior author of “CD19 CAR-T therapy in solid organ transplant recipients: case report and systematic review” in Bone Marrow Transplantation. Department of Medicine co-authors are Jordan Gauthier, Scott Tykodi, Evan Hall, and Alexandre Hirayama.
- Grace Shih, Co-Director, Reproductive Health & Advocacy Fellowship, is quoted in Analysis: What the FDA’s rule changes allowing the abortion pill mifepristone to be dispensed by pharmacies mean in practice – 5 questions answered in The Conversation.
- Lindee Strizich and Chris Kim had their abstract “Fostering trainee participation in hospital patient safety event reviews,” accepted from among 1366 submissions for poster presentation in the Society of Hospital Medicine Converge Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignette Scientific Abstract Competition.