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

ROMA-Resident of the Month Award

Resident of the Month: For ownership and going above and beyond expectations

Fred Rydz, MD, FROMA:

–He went home post call, kept his pager on, and when a family member called him to discuss code status and goals of care for their elderly relative he talked with them and then CAME BACK IN to talk with the patient again and tidy up loose ends.
–He then came to Board review

Award given: Organic Cafeteria Vouchers for hormone free edibles worth 20 USD. AKA stimulus package.

note: FROMAGE = Fellow of the Resident of the Month Award

Congrats Fred.

Dont forget to nominate residents for next month

MH

NEJM

UVM Medicine is not all about green mountains and maple syrup. The April 9th 2009 New England Journal of Medicine printed an original article titled, "Efficacy of Esomeprazole for Treatment of Poorly Controlled Asthma". This research and article was by The American Lung Association Asthma Clinical Research Centers. UVM's Northern New England Consortium (previously known as Vermont Lung Center at the Universith of Vermont) is proud to be one of the Clinical Research Centers.

Our very own attendings - Drs. Charlie Irvin, Anne Dixon and David Kaminsky - are the co principal investigaters for UVM.  They are one of many academicians amongst our green mountains.  If you have any questions after reading the article, I'm sure they would love to answer them. Just give them a call or talk to them when you see them walking the floors.

Green team is money

Green team:
Led by Drs Rose Christian and Ellie Mueller; Powered by Sukeet Ringwala and Fred Rydz....

Et al surged in the late round of medical jeopardy to win the battle of the wards teams.

After wiping the sweat from his brow, Fred stated, " it was touch and go for a moment with the buzzer having a mind of its own ....luckily Ringwala stepped it up and we were able to take the win". Fans noted that the team won by knowing the answers to actual medical questions, a rare occurance.
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Match Day

Paula Borah (pictured above) danced a jig and welcomed in our new interns. It was close enough to Paddy's Day, where she downed some water of life and read out the list. Unfortunately, she called every male Joseph and every female Mary. Either way, here is the real list:

Welcome incoming interns:

Anish Amin, U of Dundee, United Kingdom. home of Sir James Black (Nobel prize in Medicine), seated in the "City of Discovery"
Anne Bantle, U of Minnesota , home of the Golden Gophers
Jason Brazelton, U of South Alabama, home of the Jaguars
Dan Collins, U of Utah, home of the Utes
Scott Davis, U of Vermont, home of the Catamounts
Alison Fitzgerald, U of Vermont, home of the Catamounts
Emily Glick, U of Vermont, home of the Catamounts
Carl Henderson, UMDNJ, home of ?? - perhaps strip malls or the Camden Riversharks (you'll have to clarify this when you get here Carl)
Laura McGevna, U of Vermont, home of the Catamounts
Brian Monroe, U of Illinois, not home of Chief Illiniwek
Elizabeth Nimmich, U of South Carolina, home of the Gamecocks
Mitchell Nimmich, U of South Carolina, who's motto is "Learning humanizes"
Glencora Pontee, Ben Gurion U, home of...David Ben Gurion (Israel's 1st prime minister)
William Prabhu, SUNY Upstate, home of the motto "Let knowledge grow from more to more; and so be human life enriched"
Mathew Prall, U of Utah, home of the Utes
Nathan Rosenberg, U of Vermont, home of the Catamounts
Jadwiga Stanek, Jagiellonski U, home of Copernicus
Kirk Wangensteen, U of Minnesota, home of the Golden Gopher

Some remain Catamounts, others become Catamounts, "What's Missing?"

Now we're "all one" (shameless references to Fletcher Allen's newest advertising campaigns)

Paula can't wait to meet you.

From the Archives

I found this nugget of history in a useless folder, buried deep in the electronic bowels of the Chief folder. It dates back to when Erik Rufa was chief (now Hospitalist Attending) and when Nate Madsen was a resident. (now Cardiology Fellow). Thousands of years from now, I wonder how historians will analyze this? I suppose it depends on if ties were still in fashion...or if the Star Trek unitards will be dominating 5th Ave....Youngstown OH (In the future, NYC will have reached its prime, and the city that never sleeps will be Youngstown)

Maybe alien life forms are scouring for other life and will intercept this video. How will they interpret this film? Will there fake gesture of friendliness be tyring to have a "tie race"? Only time will tell...or we'll forget about it and feel bad that we didn't delete it....