Dear GME Community,
Cindy Hamra Associate Dean, GME
As 2022 comes to an end, Happy Holidays from the GME Team to all who celebrate, and Happy New Year. This month we Reflect on the Year and we welcome our new Human Resources Manager Bre Smith (more below) to the GME team!
The December issue of GME News and Notes is brief, featuring several articles and awards, and program leadership changes. We also share information about a new Leave of Absence resource for trainees and an updated Annual Program Timeline, both designed to be resources for our community.
Please share information that you’d like to see included by sending to me at hamrac@uw.edu.
Thank you,
Cindy
Policies and Processes
- End of WA COVID-19 State of Emergency: the end of the State of Emergency indicates the end of COVID-19 paid administrative leave for workplace exposures. If a resident/fellow is sick for any reason, they can use their sick time off.
Program Information
- Welcome New Program Administrators:
- Cullen McEvoy, Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition
- Emma Perrow, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility
- The GMEC has approved appointment of the following new program directors; ACGME appointments require Review Committee (RC) confirmation:
- Faith Ross, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology
- Jackie Hobbs, Psychiatry
- Thomas Soeprono, Consultation Liaison Psychiatry
- The ACGME has a weekly e-Communication. If you wish to receive it, email ACGMECommunications@acgme.org.
Events of Interest
- Upcoming GME Lunch & Learns
- Navigating Parental Leave for Resident Physicians on January 10th from 6:30 – 7:30pm on Zoom. At this event, Hayley Fisher, GME Director of Housestaff Affairs, will educate trainees about navigating parental leave, how upcoming ACGME requirements may alter provisions and answer trainees’ questions. Register today at: https://sites.uw.edu/uwgme/event-registration/ Registration will close at 8:00am on January 9th. All residents, fellows and guests are encouraged to attend via Zoom.
- 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 December and January.- Join us in welcoming Bre Smith, MBA, PHR, who started in the GME Office as the new HR Manager! Bre is joining UW from Seattle University where she had extensive human resources experience. In her role as the UW GME HR Manager, Bre will focus on supporting residents, fellows, and program leadership in navigating paid time off usage, leaves of absence, disability accommodations, and compliance with the CBA. We are very excited to have her join our GME team!
- 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 Annual Non-ACGME Program Survey is currently open for program directors and administrators of non-ACGME fellowship programs to complete. This survey serves to provide an annual check-in with our non-ACGME fellowship programs, identify program changes from the past year, and help identify areas where we can develop additional resources and support specific to our non-ACGME clinical fellowship programs, as defined in the GMEC-Approved (Non-ACGME Accredited) Fellowship Programs Committee (GAF) Charge and Educational Standards for Non-ACGME Programs. Responses are due by January 6.
- Early next year, the Office of Healthcare Equity will conduct a survey to better understand how personal identities, such as race, ethnicity, sex, gender, and disability, shape employee experiences at UW Medicine.
- The GME Office is currently recruiting for three roles:
- Harborview Medical Center Emergency Alert Messages Subscription: HMC is reintroducing the UW Medicine STAT|INFO Advisory notification system to disseminate official information via text message to keep the UW Medicine workforce informed during emergencies and situations that might disrupt normal operations. Trainees are encouraged to subscribe to UW Medicine STAT|INFO ADVISORY.
- The UW Medicine Center for Scholarship in Patient Care Quality and Safety is proud to announce the (re)-launch of QI Match, an online web platform to match collaborators to quality improvement and patient safety initiatives across UW Medicine. Get started today.
People
- Justin Bullock, fellow (Nephrology) gave the 2022 American Academy of Pediatrics Plenary Session, “I’m Just Trying to Survive: A Story of Healing Through Humanity.”
- The Huddle recently featured Richard Ellenbogen, Chair of the Department of Neurological Surgery and Neurological Surgery Residency Program Director, in “Improving Neurological Surgical Education.”
- Internal Medicine Residency Program Operations Specialist, Whitney Harper, is featured in the Department of Medicine Staff Spotlight.
- Fuki Hisama, Program Director, Medical Genetics, participated in the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics Workforce Diversity Initiative Advisory Group that assessed diversity in the medical genetics workforce. The ACMG joined major genetics and genomics organizations in releasing the Human Genetics & Genomics Workforce Survey Report. Hisama has also been named the inaugural section editor for clinical genetics for Genetics in Medicine Open, a new open access journal of the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics, launching in January 2023.
- In 2021, the Mount Baker Foundation made a $1M pledge to the Kidney Research Institute to increase diversity in nephrology research and the workforce by supporting candidates in the early stage of their career. Christine Limonte and Justin Bullock (Nephrology) are the first UW fellows to be recipients of support from the gift.
- Michael Linenberger is profiled in Hutch News Stories. Check out “Leader in apheresis and cellular therapy, Dr. Michael Linenberger retires.”
- Linzee Mabrey, fellow, is lead author, and Mark Wurfel, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is senior author of “Plasma Interleukin-6 Predicts Clinical Decline After Completion of Dexamethasone Therapy in Severe COVID-19” in Critical Care Explorations.
- Paul Pottinger, Program Director, Infectious Diseases, is quoted in “Limits of ‘Fauci effect’: infectious disease applicants plummet, and hospitals are scrambling” in STAT.
- Paul Pottinger, Program Director, Infectious Diseases, is quoted in “Infectious diseases fellowships go unfilled for newly minted doctors” in NPR.
- Vincent Raikhel, clinical instructor, is lead author, and Chenwei Wu, clinical assistant professor (General Internal Medicine) is senior author of “Vax the Max, a Gamification Intervention for COVID-19 Vaccination Task Engagement in the Inpatient Setting” in American Journal of Medical Quality. DOM co-authors are Kevin Blau, Katherine Alberty, Paul Cornia, Rudolph Rodriguez, and Kenneth Steinberg.