In the News
- Harnessing Our Humanity — How Washington’s Health Care Workers Have Risen to the Pandemic Challenge, Lisa Rosenbaum, MD – NEJM
- “We Signed Up for This!” — Student and Trainee Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic, Thomas H. Gallagher, MD and Anneliese M. Schleyer, MD, MHA – NEJM
- Hold on to humanity while we still can, Jay Brahmbhatt, MD – KevinMD
- Caring for coronavirus patients in a Seattle ICU: ‘move forward and accept the risk’, Andy Luks, MD – The Washington Post
Residents raising money for “Off Their Plate”
The Internal Medicine residents at the University of Washington have started a campaign to raise money to support communities impacted by Coronavirus around the U.S. They are supporting “Off Their Plate”, a grassroots organization powered by nonprofit World Central Kitchen. “Off Their Plate” partners with local restaurants and workers to restore wages and provide meals to healthcare workers on the COVID frontline in cities across the U.S. They have raised over $1,570 so far.
To read more hero stories, from the front lines and behind the scenes, please visit the DOM heroes page on the Department of Medicine website.
Awards
The UW Pediatric Residency Program Alaska Track has been awarded the Outstanding Teaching Program Award for 2020 from the Academic Pediatric Association (APA). This is the highest honor in the US given each year to a pediatric teaching program – student, resident or fellowship.
Internal Medicine resident Ryan Stultz, MD (Class of 2022) and member of the Physician-Scientist Learning Pathway, was awarded a Resident Research Preceptorship from the Rheumatology Research Foundation with his mentor Dr. Christian Lood, assistant professor (Rheumatology). Their translational research will examine potential links between extracellular mitochondria and auto-antibody formation in systemic sclerosis.
Kelli Alderman, fellowship program administrator (Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine) won the 2020 Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD) Award for Innovative Fellowship Program Administration Abstract, and presented at the APCCMPD annual meeting’s vrtual conference in March. Title: “The Hackathon as a Way to Innovate in Fellowship Education.” Co-authors: Rosemary Adamson, Nick Johnson, Andy Luks, and Başak Çoruh.
GME Updates
Welcome to our new Program Directors and Administrators!
Program Directors:
- Andrew Ayars, MD, Allergy and Immunology
- Michi Shinohara, MD, Dermatopathology
Program Administrators:
- Rene Barton, Medical Genetics
- Tara Camill, Pediatric Radiology
- Erin Moore, Pain Medicine and Anesthesia Critical Care
New ACGME Programs for AY21
The ACGME recently approved the accreditation for the following programs:
- Obstetric Anesthesiology
- Addiction Medicine-Boise
Committee Nominations for AY21
Look for an announcement in the coming weeks calling for nominations for our GME Committees for AY21. Check out our Committees page for desciprtions of each Committee.
GME Policies Updates