APDIM Fall Meeting. October 27, 2018. Orlando, Florida Patients as a Source of Harm – A Single Institution Resident / Employee Survey and Policy to Create a Safer Workplace Speakers: Andrew J. Varney, MD, Vidhya Prakash, MD, FACP, and Ula Tarabichi, MD https://hl.im.org/meetings/upcoming-events/apdim-2018/fall2018-agenda Follow the link to view the presentation. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the "Workshop 504 Presentation tab" to view the presentation. The duty to treat is a professional obligation to provide nondiscriminatory care and is deeply ingrained in the history and

Cheryl is a senior health policy executive with a distinguished consulting and public service career in public health, population health, health financing and system reform. She currently serves as the Managing Director, Healthcare Payment, Innovation & Quality for the MITRE Corporation. She spent nine years at NORC at the University of Chicago where she was a Senior Fellow in the Public Health Department and over three decades as a senior executive at the US Department of Health and Human Services. She is a results-oriented, decisive leader with a record of high performance; exceptional

SIUEM has created scholarly tracks to give residents with an interest in a particular field of Emergency Medicine guidance to increase their knowledge and skills while preparing them for fellowship training if desired. Each track will begin towards the end of PGY-1 or the beginning of the PGY-2 year. It is at this time a resident will have had time to foster an interest in a particular subspecialty track. It will be during this time in their training they will begin meeting with a faculty sponsor to guide them through their subspecialty track. During the PGY-2 year a resident will work to

Rural Health Summit Releases Report on Rural Health in Illinois Identifies great challenges and a path forward Springfield, Ill. - Rural Illinois residents face significant challenges and health disparities compared to residents in the state’s metropolitan areas, according to a new report released by the organizers of the 2018 Illinois Rural Health Summit. The report, titled “ THE STATE OF RURAL HEALTH IN ILLINOIS: Great Challenges and a Path Forward ” compiles information shared by rural health stakeholders across government, healthcare, public health, philanthropy and academia. The report

2018 CHEST Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas. October 6-10, 2018. Please visit http://chestmeeting.chestnet.org/ for more information regarding the 2019 CHEST Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Congratulations to our very own, Mirza Ali, MD and Abdisamad Ibrahim, MD, both PGY2's, and Abhishek Kulkarni, MD on your poster acceptance at the 2018 Annual CHEST Meeting in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Ali and Dr. Ibrahim traveled to Texas on October 6-10, 2018 to present their poster "Unusual Case of NSTFMI Associated with Myocardial Bridge". Dr. Mirza Ali along with his mentor Dr. Abhishek Kulkarni

Dr. Leslie Smith shares her favorite resources to learn more about integrative and culinary medicine: National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health , a division of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Search for any topic of interest. Most recent research is not always incorporated as quickly as other sites. Overall very user friendly and reasonably comprehensive. Free and open access. Mayo Clinic Search for any topic of interest. Very friendly for patient browsing. Free and open access. Kaiser Permanente Well organized list of many therapies grouped by category. Options to

Immediately wash the exposed site with soap and water. Call employee health at the facility where the event took place. The employee health nurse will provide you with instructions on what you need to do next. Contact your employing hospital, if different than where incident took place, to let them know that this happened to one of their employed residents. Contact list for Springfield Trainees Springfield Memorial Hospital Colleague Health Services: 217-788-3459 Monday – Friday, 7:00 to 5:00 at 217-788-3459 After hours or weekend, contact number above. Safety Events/ Memorial SENSOR: DMH

The Department of Medicine has a long history of celebrating the residents' graduation by funding their travel to attend the ACP National Meeting. This years' meeting will be held in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, PA, in April 2019. Check this out! https://annualmeeting.acponline.org/

"Nalbuphine for Opioid-Induced Urine Retention" Authors: Abdisamad M. Ibrahim, MD; Zainab Obaidi, MD; Gordon Ruan, MD; Dorcas Adaramola, MD, MPH; Sharon Onguti, MD, MPH Congratulations to Internal Medicines faculty and residents! Published: Ann Intern Med. 2018. DOI: 10.7326/L18-0387 ©2018 American College of Physicians http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2698902/nalbuphine-opioid-induced-uri…

"Life Lessons" by Megan Miner, Internal Medicine Medical Education Program Coordinator January 2018 http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2678523/annals-story-slam-life-lessons