News Around the Residency

"Must Know Info of the WFMR"
     
           Block 1 (2017-18 academic year)          
 
  Block 1 Announcements and Eventsannounce


Hospital Medicine Announcements (from Patricia Seymour, MD and Jason Numbers, MD)
 The rollout of the new schedule:  Please LOOK at your schedules ahead of time and be ready for unforeseen issues.  Block 2, in particular, may require some real-time adjustments.  
 
Leadership changes:  Neha Wacks will be assuming her role of co-director of the inpatient service on August 1st and will replace Trish as the residency liaison. Beth Koester has accepted a position at Dartmouth and we congratulate her but will miss her.  While a national search is being conducted for an FM Hospitalist SubGroup Chief, Trish will serve in the Interim role. 


Recruitment Update
 In the blink of an eye the new recruitment season is upon us! Dr. Potts and Mike Smith will be joining our chief residents Sandra Augusto, Carolyn Murphy and LIz Kardas at the annual AAFP Conference in Kansas City from July 27-29. Let the fun begin!


Welcoming Our New Interns
 The Class of 2020 is "in the house" - and, on the service!  Check out a few pics of our new interns during their "welcome" week!  ( And new PGY-1 Julie Powers made the awesome chocolate cake pictured below!)
 


 

   
 Wellness Moment from Tina Runyan, Ph.DRUNY


Invitation (def): a situation or action that tempts someone to do something or makes a particular outcome likely.
 
Read this slowly ... contemplatively ... and then, r ead it again.  
 
The Invitation
  by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.
 
It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
 
It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.
 
I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it, or fade it, or fix it.
 
I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own; if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, be realistic, remember the limitations of being human.
 

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself. If you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. If you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.
 
I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not pretty every day. And if you can source your own life from its presence.
 
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand at the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, 'Yes.'
 
It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.
 
It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.
 
It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.
 
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.
ARTMUS                          Introduction to the Provider Care Curriculum
  at the Worcester Art Museum  
 
WFMR and FFMR Interns had an engaging day at the Introduction to the Provider Care Curriculum at the Worcester Art Museum on Friday, June 30th. Faculty including Drs. Sethi, Silk and Runyan, Fellows including Drs. Carty and Minski, and Resident facilitators, including Drs. Roberts and Bhamidipati, led the interns through a variety of stress-busting Physician Wellness and Medical Humanities exercises.

A big thank you to the Medical Humanities & Physician Wellness Teams for organizing the day and Docents Paul Steen, Paul Mahon, and Cathryn Oles for inspiring robust small-group discussions in the art galleries. 
 
*Starting July 1st, 2017,  all WFMR and FFMR residents have free access to the WAM with their resident ID. Please contact Dr. Sethi for more information at
 [email protected].

 
   
           Dr. Silk brought the Medical Humanities outside by leading a reflective
                                     writing session in the WAM courtyard. 
            

   
Julie Powers shares her acting skills during the afternoon ice-breaker led
by Drs. Runyan and Roberte.  



Energized and ready for residency, welcome WFMR Class of 2020!

                                               
Pics by Dr. Sethi 
                                                    Workshop Schedule WORSKHOP

PGY-1 
7/25  Foundations

8/8 Well Child Care
      Drs. Barnard, Runyan, Bombaci
 


PGY-2

 8/1  HC Orientation HC Faculty

 8/8  Introduction to Long Term Care
        Dr. Gleich & senior residents
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8/15  HC Based HC Faculty

8/22  HFHC & FHCW - Nursing Home Orientation at St. Mary's
        BFHC - Orientation at Holden Nursing Home
        Drs. Gleich, Hargreaves 

8/29 MSK Physical Exam/Preparticipation
         Dr. Mancini and Fellows



PGY-3
7/25  Independent Project Time

 8/1    Independent Project Time  
 
8/8    Stuff You Need to Practice Medicine
         Dr. Broadhurst

8/15   HC Based
          HC Faculty

8/22   SWING DATE

8/29   Journal Club Leadership
Celebrations and Congratulations! Celeb
 
 
Congrats to Dave Gilchrist, MD and his wife Cammie on their new baby!  Dave writes...

Scarlett Cynthia Gilchrist - weighing 8 lbs exactly and 21 inches long was born 7/6/17. Our 14th
year wedding anniversary was 7/5 - we thought she might come then but she held out to the next day!
 


WFMR Speedy Recovery Wishes to Tamara Cullen (pictured with her daughter Morgan.) We know she'll be back and on her feet in no time!
 
      



With two of our August birthdays having just graduated, we only have one person to sing Happy Birthday to this month!   Leah Rothstein, PGY-2, have a great day on August 16!
 
Useful On-line Resources Useful

This list will be updated on an ongoing basis and will appear in each future edition of this newsletter: Please contact Dr. Potts if you would like to add a resource to this list. 

E-value
User name for all residents is their email address and the password is  hello1 . 

Residency Curriculum Resource  -  username is  WFMR2015!  and the password is  FAMMED15!

WFMR Residency Policies - located on our Department LibGuide under the WFMR tab and the password is  ummsfm.

Got news (or a fun fact) for our next newsletter? Contact Stacy Potts, MD at Stacy.Potts @umassmemorial.org or Michael Smith, MS, Associate Director of Admissions at [email protected]