Baby Boy Prall

Congratulations on the arrival of Miles Matthew Prall, born 1/20/10 at 3:31 pm at 7 lbs 5 oz and 20.5 inches long. Everyone is healthy and well.

Laura McGevna published in NEJM

Congrats Laura!
Laura's image of necrolytic migratory erythema was published in New England Journal of Medicine's web-version on January 7, 2010. Check it out:

http://content.nejm.org/cgi/reprint/362/1/e1.pdf

Internal Medicine Book Club

Winter Book Club: Our residents are getting ready for the February meeting of the book club at Chad Mitchell's house which will include a pot luck and discussion about Thorton Wilder's "The Bridge to San Luis Rey." The Medicine Dept. provides us with $1000 annually for our non-medical book club which usually meets 3 to 4 times a year. Schedules don't permit everyone to attend the actual discussion but about 20 people grab books each time. Recent books have included The Shadow of the Wind, Prodigal Summer, The Glass Castle and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

ACP CONFERENCE

Congratulations to all our residents who participated in our regional Vermont/New Hampshire ACP meeting at Trapps Family Lodge in Stowe!

Scott Johnson, Anish Amin, and Dan Collins won the Vermont Clinical Vignette competition with their poster "Non-traumatic rib fracture: An unusual presentation of extranodal marginal zone lymphoma."

Sukit Ringwala took first place in the Vermont Research competition with his poster "Platelet suppression with rivaroxaban in patients with coronary artery disease."

For the first time in VT/NH regional ACP history, our residents competed against Dartmouth's in the Doctor's Dilemma (ACP's Jeopardy equivalent). Will Cobell, Scott Johnson, Nick Lim, and Sarah Mooney threw down some serious knowledge, going into Final Jeopardy in a near dead-heat with Dartmouth. With our correct final answer, our team won the competition and now has the opportunity to compete at the annual ACP Doctor's Dilemma, which will be this spring in Toronto.

All in all, a great day in Stowe. Special thanks to our residents who covered services for our conference attendees.

ACP Conference

Our Fletcher Allen residents recently competed in clinical vignette and research posters, as well as in Jeopardy at the regional ACP meeting. Full results to follow!

Congratulations

Memo
To: Faculty and Residents in the Department of Medicine

From: Mark A. Levine, M.D.
Associate Chairman for Education and
Residency Program Director
Department of Medicine


I am delighted to announce that the following second year residents have been selected to the position of Chief Medical Resident for the 2010-2011 academic year:

Zechariah Gardner
Mia Hockett

Both of these outstanding residents completed their medical training here at the University of Vermont. Please join me in offering congratulations and best wishes to them.

Friday Round Up

Grand Rounds: Hospital Epidemiologist W. Kemper Alston MD, MPH discussed Infection control/prevention strategies. It was a very dynamic talk that included FAHC/UVM infection data and National data. Bottom line: Continue to wash your hands

Morning Report: Chief Complaint: Nausea. Dr. Jaquith presented a complicated case which turned out to be Hep A

Intern Report: Chief Complaint: RLQ pain. Acting Intern J. Pare presented a great case of a renal infarct secondary to endocarditis affecting a bovine mitral valve

ECG shows signs of LA enlargment and Right Axis Deviation - Dr. Antkowiak called it correctly