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 4:00 at 217-788-3459 After hours or weekend, contact the after hours emergency line at 217-588-7595. Safety

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

"Perspecitves and Urgency" by Yasmina Arroyo, MD, PGY2. January 2018. http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2678524/annals-story-slam-perspective…

The fall issue of the Library Newsletter is now available on our newsletter page. Vol 8, issue 4, Oct 2018

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