Brad McAdams had a farm....E.I, E.I, O?

Brad Adams- Full-time third year resident & life-time home-on-the ranger complies with the 80 hour work week rule at the hospital while satisfying the hospital's voracious appetite for free range stuff. Brad can supply anyone who's fiending for fresh farm eggs and fresh poultry. His customers state that the yolks are easier to cook with and brighter (meaning more nutrients according to Rachel Ray). Brad also has supplied fellow residents and FAHC employees with fantastic thanksgiving turkey. Some of Brad's eggs are green shelled, which are from his Araucana chickens ( also known as a South American Rumpless Chicken) which is the same kind of bird that Martha Stewart raises. With the combo of his Green Eggs and Martha Stewart's love of ham, some would call Brad the perfect combination of Dr. Seuss and Martha. Other "one with the Earth" stuff Brad does is Bee keep. If you have any questions on parallels between Residents and Drone bees, Brad is your man. If he wasn't busy enough, our resident farmer is soon to become a Heme/Onc fellow and the unofficial FAHC PETA representative. He is also working on fighting Salmonella with chemo. When you ask Brad anything, his answer usually is "Cant Chemo cure that?" If you want good eggs, ask Brad...unless you're vegan....then don't call Brad...

Morning Report Sign in List

As a middle manager monkey, I mean extraordinaire...I have the important job of recording who attends our educational conference into an excel spreadsheet. Recently, to my delight, everyone signed in with their "wrestling name" (i.e.: what they would be called when they become a professional wrestler). Below, verbatim, are the "wrestling names" from the Morning Report sign in sheet. In reality, one witty resident created these great nicknames, probably during a really interesting debate of "Should we check a D-Dimer?".

Curt "The Dream" Weaver, Cindy "Lou who" Dion, Alison "Jakey" Jaquith, Zech-attack Gardner, Plank the Tank, Nathaniel "Giggles" Price, Capt'n Mitchell, Sarah "the Panther" Panzer, Tristan "the fire" Blackburn, Matt Coates AKA "El Diablo", Nat - Cat - Sinclair, Mean Dean Chapman, Kuhn Dawg, Nate "Scrub" Thompson, Lady Sadie Mills, Princess Ellie.

David Babbott Internal Medicine Resident Library AKA "ResiLounge" Gets a face lift

David Babbott, Professor of Medicine, served as Director of the Office of Education of the Department of Medicine (1975-1992). Our Resident Library/Lounge was named in honor of his career, accomplishment, and dedication to medical eduation in 1993. Since that time, the lounge has experienced many changes - some good and some bad - but has always been the epicenter for the I. M. Resident community. Recently, the lounge experience a much needed overhall after years of good use and good spills. New paint, fridge, shelving (holding many books written by UVM attendings), and donated couches (Sahir Patel MD and Mike Kelley MD). Special thanks to Aaron Fay, facilities manager who helped coordinate the endeavor.

R2's Retreat...

Earlier this week the new second years got the day off hospital work and had a forced opportunity to bond at their annual retreat at the Inn at Essex. They lamented about their R1 year and were forced to eat pastries, lunch and more baked goods (surprisingly not prepared by Suzanne). Note the picture of Matt, Dean and Tristan completely engaged in their pamphlets detailing their "How do we synergize and survive this arctic crash D&D style?" Unfortunately this picture was not posed - its actually real. Other topics bridged were Dr. Ramundo's workshop on feedback/evaluation. After explaining to Mooney of County Limerick that "feedback" was not a farming term, the group left no comments and rated the talk "average" which really means "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" because the group is so awesome at baseline. Keep on truckin R2 year. Hope the day was at least mildly entertaining.

Hops are the spice of....

This past weekend, many enjoyed Burlington's Brewfest. This was an opportunity to experience fun in the sun by the lake while learning about many of the local micro brewers in the regional area. Pictured above include some but certainly not all of the residents from UVM that went to it. Note that residencies do mix as I.M., Radiology, Family Practice and Anesthesiology are represented. Special shout out to Katherine Tzou (ex I.M. Prelim, now RadOnc resident) who traveled back for the "brew-ha-ha". After several educational experiences on the diversity of brewfest, including Peak organic's espresso porter, she was eager to start a brewfest discourse on how to solve the world energy problem and the cost-benefit analysis of the Kyoto Protocol. Towards the end, the I.M. Residents just had more questions and needed to find out more. Radiology residents acknowledged that there was a problem but could not rule out other causes of energy, Kyoto or protocols....while Anesthesia pounded their beer and left the scene to pound again. In the end, brewfest ended in a series of "I love you mans" -- How fitting.

(Pics taken by Talissa Adkison aka "T-Bili" but not really)

Shasta

Back in June, Kuhn and the chief (now ex-chief) Kelley climbed Mt Shasta at the end of a riveting Wilderness Medicine Conference. Niether suffered from acute mountain sickness or HAPE.

Chattery in the battery...sex in the city Burlington style? Cosmos or magic hat? You decide. Please Facebook them, they're interns
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FAHC lunch BBQ

Zech Gardner piles on barbequed meat onto his plate post Cards overnight call. He anticipates an extra ordinary post prandial slumber where he will dream about running codes and waltzing with the ICU nurses.
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Resident library gets refurbished, kinda

So the facilities folks are working away on the lounge. Planned jobs are re-painting, re carpeting, adding shelving...If you see the folks working on it, pass along a "hey....how you doing?" in the least creepy way possible (that means you Thompson)...Planned refurb done by end of week.

Was the 4th everything you had hoped?

Burlington's 4th of July Fireworks actually happen on July 3rd at the Waterfront.

For those of you who can't get enough of fireworks...

Montreal has an international fireworks competition during the Summer. Different countries compete each week.

R2 D2

Shep 4 aka "3rd world ICU"

R2 Tristan Blackburn is having "great fun" on Day 2 on Heme Onc. As she nervously laughs and fidgets with her HISPROD discharge summary she stated that she could not understand why anyone would'nt want to be a new R2.

"Why be an intern when you can have your patient load and responsibility double?"

Tristan already loves being here longer and feeling like she has to make all the decisions on patients that she may or may not have seen.

"I feel more loved, you know?" as she casually took a fake drag from her MRSA filled Non-DrugRep BIC pen..."I mean look behind me...in the 30 seconds of talking to you, there are 4 nurses waiting to see me. They look nervous...It must be because they think I'm famous and want my autograph...I'm just so blessed to be here and so happy I gave up my American Idol try out for this."

Tristan is quite the generous resident and plans on sharing her joy and educational experiences with Sukit "So Sweet" Ringwala - new R1.

"Soon he'll [Sukit] be as happy as I am...I'm just so glad we can experience this together".

(This article is now approved by Tristan)

Pierre moves to M5

P Zizzy, our frenchy resident grad now new Cards fellow forgot his old lab coat in the lounge. Note his trusty stethescope, "Gizelle", also left behind...I guess cardiologists don't need them anymore. Here at Fletcher Allen, we can cath you.
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Last Wards Day: 3rd years say holla....

Above, Nadia Bambace, Jaina Clough and Maruf Haider left the wards in all their glory for the last time as residents. They leave in their wake memories of C.diff, alternating temperatures, and phone calls asking about patients on non teaching services.... Nadia gives the thumbs up, but secretly wanted to give another gesture...(note: message not approved by Nadia Bambace). Congratulations to the 3rd year class, now officially graduated: Nadia Bambace, Jaina Clough, Paul Crainich, Shine Gentler, David Gruenberg, Maruf Haider, Nate Madsen, Jenny Martino, Suzanne Schermerhorn and last but not least Pierre Znojkiewicz....