Dear GME Community,
Cindy Hamra Associate Dean, GME
We’ve had a lot of great events in the last month: on February 23, the GME Team celebrated Thank a Resident Day by sharing lunches and treats for our residents and fellows. Many members of our community attended the ACGME annual educational conference in Florida in early March, and several gave presentations and Review Committee updates and presented posters. Finally, March 15 was Match Day, and we look forward to welcoming our incoming trainees over the next few months.
March is Women’s History Month, which celebrates women’s contributions to history and their present and future impact on society. Information about this year’s theme and resources can be found on The Huddle.
Husky Giving Day is 4/4! We invite you to contribute to the GME Vision Fund, which advances our diversity and inclusion programs and efforts.
There are several wonderful GME educational events planned in the next few weeks and months as well. These and other resources are captured in the March News and Notes.
Thanks,
Cindy
Policies and Processes
- Residency and Fellowship Position Appointment (RFPA) Agreement for 2024-2025: the AY25 RFPA was approved by GMEC on January 11 and is now available on the Policies and Procedures, Current Residents and Fellows, and Prospective Residents and Fellows pages of the GME website.
Program Information
- The ACGME has a weekly e-Communication. If you wish to receive it, email ACGMECommunications@acgme.org.
Events of Interest
- GME Lunch & Learns
- The second session of our Cultivating Skills in Feedback and Critical Conversations Education Series is Tuesday March 26 from 11:30am to 1:00pm (Zoom). The topic is: Supportive Structures for Feedback and Other Conversations That Matter. Program directors, associate program directors, program administrators and faculty are welcome. For planning purposes, please reach out to Amanda Easton and Jenn Johal if you would like to attend and have not yet RSVPd.
- We are excited to announce a comprehensive Four-Part Leadership Lecture Series designed specifically for residents and fellows! Each month, we will delve into crucial areas that shape effective leadership in the medical profession, presented by experts in the field. Mark your calendars and join us! Registration opened in February. Please see the January 18 email from Jennifer Best for more information.
- The time of year has come when we know many of you are beginning to consider and set up your schedules for the upcoming year. Please mark your calendars for our Scheduling Workshop Series on April 2, 3, & 4! Please see the GME Calendar for detailed information including Zoom links for each event.
- Level up your MedHub knowledge with MedHub Ready – a FREE webinar series – available to all MedHub GME Office Users on Wednesday, March 27 at 11:00am PT. This webinar covers GME Evaluations. Registration and agenda information are now available.
- Upcoming Program Director Development Series: This is a reminder to register for our Spring Program Director Development Series on April 8th. Please register at: https://sites.uw.edu/uwgme/pdds-registration/. This season we are excited to offer two transformative sessions dedicated to the advancement of resident and fellow well-being and the refinement of recruitment program strategies. All sessions will be held on Zoom.
- The UWSOM is sponsoring the 2024 Graduate Medical Education (GME) Summit. The focus will be collaborating to address workforce needs within the WWAMI region and beyond. Registration for the Summit is now open! Join us on April 25-26, 2024, in Anchorage, Alaska.
- The Lasker Foundation’s 2024 Essay Contest is open now through April 2, 2024, at 2PM ET. Winning essays will be published in the July 2024 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation and on the Lasker Foundation website. The contest is open to medical students, interns, residents, doctoral and postdoctoral fellows in the biomedical sciences and grad students in health – and awards several winners up to $5,000 for educational expenses. This year’s essay contest theme is: Identify a specific unmet need in biomedical knowledge or a scientific question that is insufficiently addressed in biomedical research today. For more information, detailed guidelines, and stories on past winners, please visit the essay contest webpage.
- Space still available for CRISP: CLINICAL RESEARCH INTENSIVE SUMMER PROGRAM: Applications are still being accepted for this new course designed to provide clinical investigators with hands-on experience in key clinical research skills to accelerate their career development. The program runs July 8–26, 2024 at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center campus in Seattle. A draft daily curriculum may now be viewed on the website under “Class Schedule & Draft Daily Topics.” Read more on the CRISP webpage.
- Other GME Events can be found on our calendar.
Projects and Resources
Please review the GME Annual Program Timeline for important dates for the months of March and April.- The ACGME’s Back to Bedside initiative is designed to empower residents and fellows to develop transformative projects that foster meaning and joy in work and allow them to engage on a deeper level with what is at the heart of medicine: their patients. This initiative supports resident- and fellow-directed innovations. Proposals are due by April 22, 2024. Learn More.
- 2025 ACGME Awards: Nomination materials are available on each award’s page in the Awards section of the ACGME website. All nominations are due March 27, 2024. Please reach out to the GME office if you plan to submit an application.
- Safety Net is the new event reporting tool that replaced Patient Safety Net (PSN); there is now an icon for Safety Net on all UW Medicine desktop computers for easy access and all new reports should be entered using Safety Net. The Safety Net User Resource Page includes training materials, online support and transition plans.
People
- Congratulations to Internal medicine residents who received Best Poster awards at the recent Northwest Regional Society for General Internal Medicine conference: Jaspreet Bahia (Clinical Vignette: “Large Vessel Vasculitis (LVV): A diagnostic challenge”) and Reema Navalurkar (Scientific Abstract: “Hands-on Teaching to Boost Internal Medicine Interns’ Comfort with Harm Reduction”).
- Dan Cabrera (Internal Medicine Associate Program Director) and Barbara Jung (Department of Medicine Chair) who were elected to Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) councils.
- Christopher Goss, professor (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) and Mark Derleth, Gastroenterology Program Director, are co-authors of “Pancreatic enzyme prescription following ivacaftor licensing: A retrospective analysis of the US and UK cystic fibrosis registries” in the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis.
- Mark Harrast (Sports Medicine PM&R Program Director) is featured in “What happens to your body when you run a marathon?” from Everyday Health.
- Anna Morenz, clinician researcher (General Internal Medicine) is lead author and Sophia Hayes, fellow (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) is senior author of “Area-Level Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Health Care Spending: A Systematic Review” in JAMA Network Open. Department of Medicine co-authors are Joshua Liao and David Au.
- Congratulations to Julie Hodapp on her appointment to the Rehabilitation Medicine Residency Director Endowed Professorship. This professorship was established in 2009 to support the director of the UW Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Residency Program. Read more.
- Barbara Jung, Chair of Medicine, is featured in “Colon cancer blood test shows promise for early detection” from The New York Times. She is also quoted in “A simple blood test can detect colorectal cancer early, study finds” from NPR.
- Mukta Krane, Colon and Rectal Surgery Program Director, is featured in “Colorectal cancer still mostly affects people over 50, but diagnoses in younger people have been climbing” from Right as Rain.
- Ila Nimgaonkar, Internal Medicine resident, is lead author, and Joshua Hill, associate professor (Allergy and Infectious Diseases) is senior author of “Outcomes in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant and Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy Recipients with Pre-Cellular Therapy SARS-CoV-2 Infection” in Clinical Infectious Diseases. Department of Medicine co-authors are Leah Yoke, Masumi Ueda Oshima, Jordan Gauthier, Marco Mielcarek, Michael Boeckh and Catherine Liu.
- Claire Oduwo, Psychiatry resident and RFPU-NW President, was featured in the Macy Foundation Blog post entitled “The Role Advocacy Plays in the Health Professions.”
- Clinical trial results published recently describe a novel medical device that, in a 10-patient pilot, showed remarkable success at rescuing people from multiorgan failure caused by acute-on-chronic liver failure. Suhail Ahmad, professor emeritus (Nephrology) is co-lead developer of the device and lead author on the paper. Department of Medicine co-authors are Iris Liou, Transplant Hepatology Associate Program Director, Robert Carithers, professor emeritus, and Renuka Bhattacharya, Transplant Hepatology Program Director. Read the full story from UW Medicine Newsroom.
- Sarah Prager, Complex Family Planning Program Director, is featured in “First over-the-counter birth control pill heads to stores” from NPR.
- The latest Department of Medicine faculty spotlight is on Meena Ramchandani, Program Director, Infectious Diseases. Learn more about her on the Department of Medicine news site.
- Ganesh Raghu, Interstitial Lung Disease Program Director, is lead author of “Meaningful Endpoints for Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) Clinical Trials: Emphasis on ‘Feels, Functions, Survives’” in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine.
- Ginny Ryan, Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Program Director, is featured in “Opinion: IVF treatment builds families — we need to preserve it” from The Seattle Times.
- The latest Department of Medicine staff spotlight is on Stephanie Santos, programs manager, General Internal Medicine, and DEI champion. Learn more about her on the Department of Medicine news site.
- Jürgen Unützer, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Chair, is featured in “Future cities must prioritize mental health of young people” from UW Medicine Newsroom.