Date:	March 21, 2018
Time:	10:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Location:	NYITCOM - Old Westbury Campus

Presentations include:

10:05 a.m. EDT

Healthy Residents, Healthy Patients

David Broder, D.O., FACP, FACOI, President/CEO,  NYCOMEC Corp., Vice Speaker, American Osteopathic Association

10:20 a.m. EDT

Identification & Intervention of At Risk Trainees

Ulrick Vieux, D.O., M.S.,  Program Director, Psychiatry Residency, Orange Regional Medical Center

These webinars are for NYCOMEC trainees, faculty, medical staff, and NYITCOM and TouroCOM students.

Topic:	Osteopathic Approach to Lower Back Pain
Speaker:	George Cheriyan, D.O., Assistant Professor Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine Department NYITCOM-Old Westbury Campus
Date:	March 28, 2018
Time:	12:00 noon - 12:30 p.m. EST

 

The NYCOMEC Hospital Day will take place on May 4, 2018, from 12:00 noon to 2:00 p.m., in the Student Activity Center's Gymnasium, located on the Old Westbury Campus. At this event, DIOs,  DMEs, Program Directors, and faculty representing  AOA and ACGME training programs  from NYCOMEC member institutions will have the opportunity to meet with prospective trainees from NYITCOM and TouroCOM - class of 2019.  

To register as an exhibitor and for more information please call our office at 516.686.3730.

All trainees from AOA and ACGME programs at NYCOMEC member institutions are invited to present their experimental research and/or case study posters. 

Participants need to complete a  Poster Submission Form and send it to our office, along with the Word version of the poster's abstract, by Friday, April 20, 2017, before midnight . 

On Friday, March 2, 2018, David Broder, D.O., President, NYCOMEC, welcomed approximately 35 NYCOMEC GME leaders to a hospitality reception at the trendy restaurant, Jack's Place, where attendees had the opportunity to network with their peers and discuss what they learned at the conference. James E. Swartwout, Senior Vice President, American Osteopathic Association, attended as our invited guest.

A key component to NYCOMEC's consortium membership is ongoing opportunities to speak with other GME leaders.  NYCOMEC members found several opportunities to meet informally during the conference.   

NYCOMEC Board Member Presented at ACGME Annual Conference

Catherine Caronia, M.D ., DIO/Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs, Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, and a member of NYCOMEC's Board of Directors, was invited to present at the 2018 ACGME's Annual Conference on March 2, 2018.  Her lecture, titled  Developing Scholarly Activity in a Community Hospital Setting: A Multi-disciplinary Approach,  was presented a crowd of more than 200 graduate medical education leaders, educators and staff.  

NYCOMEC-NYIT Healthcare Leadership Certificate Course

Shane Speights, D.O., Site Dean, NYITCOM at Arkansas State University, presented a lecture titled  Transition from Colleague to Supervisor  to more than 50 hospital staff and faculty from NYCOMEC member institutions at the Healthcare Leadership Certificate Course, which was held on March 6, 2018 at Flushing Hospital Medical Center.  In his presentation, Dr. Speights discussed the challenges that can arise when someone is promoted to a supervisory capacity over his/her peers in the workplace. He outlined several issues that may be encountered and discussed strategies to mitigate them.  A lively question and answer period followed.  

The ACGME Board of Directors approved the following:

New Program Requirements:  Addiction Medicine (subspecialty of Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pediatrics, Preventive Medicine, or Psychiatry), effective February 5, 2018. Click here for details.

Focused revision to Program Requirements:  Gynecologic Oncology (subspecialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology), Maternal-Fetal Medicine (subspecialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology), and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (subspecialty of Obstetrics and Gynecology), all effective July 1, 2018. Click here for details.

Hospice and Palliative Medicine (subspecialty of Anesthesiology, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Radiation Oncology), effective July 1, 2018. Click here  for details.

Institutional Requirements, effective July 1, 2018. Click here  for details.

Neurotology (subspecialty of Otolaryngology), effective July 1, 2018. Click here  for details.

Osteopathic Recognition Requirements, effective July 1, 2018. Click here  for details.

Transitional Year, effective July 1, 2018. Click here for details.

Guidelines for Subspecialties Available
Guidelines for determining the procedural and patient strength of programs in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Gynecologic Oncology, Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility are now available. Read more. 

 
Surgery Review Committee

Case Log Update
The document Surgical Critical Care Case Logging for General Surgery is posted on the Case Log Information page. Read more.

Recent updates about the State-funded Regents Physician Loan Forgiveness Award Program were published om the New York State Education Department website. In 2018 (pending the appropriation of State funds during the 2018 session of the New York State Legislature), 80 awards up to $10,000 per year for two years will be granted to physicians who agree to practice Primary Care Medicine in an area of New York State designated by the Board of Regents as having a shortage of physicians. Award amount is based on undergraduate and medical school student loan amounts and loan interest expense. The deadline to apply is July 2, 2018. 

Click here for more information and application forms.

Maimonides Medical Center Cuts Ribbon on New Comprehensive Spine Center

On Tuesday, February 27,2018, was cut the ribbon on Maimonides Medical Center's brand new Comprehensive Spine Center which will provide patients with the highest level of medical and surgical expertise and boast technological advancements like neurodiagnostics, imaging, EMG, fluoroscopy, and nerve conduction studies.