UMass FMCH Tuesday Talk - April 13, 2021/EDUCATION
Welcome to the FMCH Tuesday Talk. Please continue to send us your announcements, celebrations, and accomplishments to [email protected].
Table of Contents
1.    Upcoming Events
2.    Focus of the Week - Education
3.    Announcements
4.    Frankly Speaking Podcast
5.    Faculty Presentations/Publications
6.    Department Member Recognition
7.    COVID 19 Updates
8.    Wellness Resources
9.    Working on Wellness
Message from the Chair

Please consider nominating colleagues for one of the Annual Undergraduate Education Awards. We have great teachers in Family Medicine and they deserve to be recognized! If there is a family medicine provider, resident or patient who has served as an exemplary teacher for our medical students, please let us know. We can help with the nomination process. The deadline is soon – April 23rd. The criteria and previous awardees are attached. Please forward potential nominees to Linda Cragin [email protected].
 
  • Lamar Soutter Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education
  • Educational Achievement (Star) Awards 
  • Community Faculty Educator Award
  • Patient-Teacher Award 
  • Student “Star” Award 
  • Retired Faculty Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Medical Education 
  • Resident/Fellow Award for Excellence in Medical Student Education 
  • Administrative Staff Award 
Upcoming Events

FMCH Grand Rounds
April 13th, Tuesday, 12 - 1 pm: Nicholas Hajj, MD presents: "Tick-borne Illness".
Meeting ID: 191 986 273 Password: FMCH
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/191986273?pwd=NEtlZmNkdWlSUGwyeTJQU3dCeUs1QT09
The 2021 Primary Care Days
Please take note: events scheduled for April 13th and 14th have been CANCELLED. 
Focus of the Week - Education

UMMS School of Medicine Curriculum Revolution
 
UMMS SOM Curriculum Revolution (CR22) Update: As many of you know, the medical school is undergoing an extensive curriculum renovation effort. CR22 involves establishment of a 3-pillar model for medical education including biomedical, clinical and health systems sciences.  The mission of CR22 is to develop a contemporary and innovative curriculum that promotes curiosity and inquiry, empowers learners and enables future physician leaders to equitably and expertly care for diverse patient populations.   
 
CR22 has a number of exciting, planned components including a fully-integrated but shortened foundational curriculum with a full clinical day each week, development of a pathways program where all students will select a pathway of further study, and the development of a 3-year MD program. There are family physicians leading and involved in the work at many levels including Dr. Susan Hogan, Dr. Tracy Kedian and Dr. Mary Lindholm, to name a few, and there is room for more. The new curriculum begins with the class entering in August 2022. Please visit the curriculum revolution website for more details about the project, including YouTube videos about the work at the bottom of this page.
 
Any questions related to CR22 can be directed to Trish Seymour ([email protected])
Announcements

CIPC Course and Recruitment Announcement
The UMass Medical School Center for Integrated Primary Care (CIPC) is currently developing a new course entitled Certificate in Primary Care Behavioral Health for Primary Care Providers, an online, asynchronous training on key areas of knowledge to assist PCPs in providing more robust mental health care services in primary care and to do so collaboratively on primary care teams that include behavioral health providers. There will be a Course Co-Director Position open and would like to encourage people to apply. See attached flier for more information.

FHCW Wednesday Cultural Rounds
The residents at FHCW host the event each Wednesday from 5 – 5:30pm. We welcome a member of the community to talk about their culture and the ways it can impact their health and the care they receive. The sessions are informal and involve a robust Q&A. Through these weekly discussions, we hope to promote cultural humility and the continuous process of learning about perspectives outside of our own in order to improve the care we provide. We welcome anyone interested in joining us each week at the link below: https://umassmed.zoom.us/j/91563174994pwd=Um1MVWdPalloMWE2V3ptMXB5aDA1dz09.

Research-Oriented Faculty Development Workshops
Judy Savageau, MPH will lead two faculty development workshops: May 12th & May 26th. RSVP to [email protected].
  • #1. Dissemination: Getting Started, Picking the Right Journal, Authorship, Responding to Reviewers’ Comments, and More. May 12th, 5:30-7:00 pm
  • #2. Writing for the Peer-Reviewed Literature: What Goes into Each Section of a Manuscript. May 26, 5:30-7 pm.

Upcoming Conferences and Calls for Abstracts
The research staff maintains a list of upcoming meetings and conferences that FMCH faculty members often attend. The list has information on deadlines for abstract submissions and links to conference websites. Contact Kate Sullivan if you would like to
add a conference to the list: [email protected]. The list can be downloaded from the Department website:

Research Support
A reminder that the Department offers support for FMCH faculty research leading to scholarly publications and/or presentations. You can find more information, including a form for requesting support, on the FMCH website: Research Initiatives - UMass Medical School - Worcester.

The FMCH Town Halls are once again being recorded for those unable to join the live meeting. A separate folder has been created on the FMCH website under Faculty Resources. No password is required to view these recordings. This URL will take you to the Faculty Resources portion of the FMCH website and it can be bookmarked for future reference. https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/faculty-resources/gr/.
Frankly Speaking Podcast

A weekly Podcast series covering newsworthy topics in primary care medicine.
 
This week:  
Nearsighted: Possible Connection Between COVID Lockdown and Increase in Childhood Myopia - Frankly Speaking EP 219
Guest: Susan Feeney, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C
 
Faculty Presentations

Presentations at the MassAFP Spring Refresher, March 26-27:
  • Kate Atkinson, MD and Judy Grupenhoff, MS, MEd. "Preventing Burnout in Primary Care".
  • Alan Ehrlich, MD.  "Celiac Disease: More Than a GI Disorder".
  • Bob Baldor, MD. "It's In The Genes! Testing and Counseling".
  • Emily Nuss and Tatiana Petrovick, both UMMS M4 students. Poster: "Peripartum Depression and Delayed Child Development Outcomes within a Home Visiting Program in Springfield, MA".
  • Jim Ledwith, MD. "MCSTAP Program - MA Consultation Service for Treatment of Addiction and Pain".
  • Steve Martin, MD. "Hypertension" and "Testing for SARS-COV2: Does it Help or Hurt?".
Department Member Recognition
 
Jim Ledwith, MD has a new role as an opioid management consultant for UMass Memorial Health Care, specifically tasked with assisting individual physicians and practice groups with establishing systems for safe opioid prescribing and guiding the transition of care when patients on opioid therapy lose their physician to retirement or relocation. He is also a physician consultant for MCSTAP and encourages all health care providers working with patients challenging pain or substance use to make use of the free consultation service for management advice and resources. www.MCSTAP.com 
1-833-PAIN-SUD (1-833-724-6783).
Clinical Services Spotlight: COVID 19 Updates
COVID-19 UPDATES

  • COVID cases are increasing among younger adults.
  • Variant B.1.1.7 is the most dominant variant in the US. Florida has the most cases of this variant.
  • Vaccine Progress In the US, 36% of the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine and 20% has been fully vaccinated. 1 in 6 Americans fully vaccinated.
  • Johnson and Johnson Vaccine to remain scarce until contamination issue resolved.
  • Pfizer and BioNTech has requested emergency use authorization to use their vaccine in 12-to-15-year-old.
  • 7-day average of new cases 67K.

Massachusetts
  • Total cases 619,885. Active 36,466.
  • Deaths 17, 042.
  • 7-day positivity rate 2.20%; 7-day average cases 1,558.
  • 7-day average deaths 14.
  • Massachusetts hospitalized 698, 172 in intensive care, 100 intubated.
  • Massachusetts residents vaccinated - 25%.

UMass Memorial
  • Current census 38 (8 in ICU)- this represents continued slight uptick.
  • System will pause giving any Johnson and Johnson vaccine based on today’s CDC and FDA guidance.
  • Additional Moderna and Pfizer vaccine expected this week.
  • Employees out due to COVID – 23 (13 over past 7 days). This represents continued slight increase over past few weeks.
 
Team Birth Training
Are you a Family Physician that delivers babies, round on postpartum or newborn?
Then you are required to attend Team Birth training, planned for April 14th at the OB grand rounds. All providers, nurses, and residents involved in maternity care, postpartum and newborn care should plan to attend this Grand Rounds. You should also receive an invite to eLearning to register. Intro to TeamBirth training will be ALL VIRTUAL. Once the initial virtual training is complete, each person will also be required to do simulation training. The launch date is scheduled for May 17, 2021

Month of April- National Minority Health Month
Topic for this week: Maternal Mortality
  • Black Maternal Health Week, April 11-17.
  • IN 2018, US Maternal Mortality Rate was 17.4 per 100,000 pregnancies or 658 maternal deaths.
  • Maternal Mortality among black women is 2.5 times that of white Non-Hispanic women.
  • Among 11 industrialized countries, the US has the highest maternal mortality rate. (Commonwealth Fund, Dec. 2020)
  • Hemorrhage is the number one cause worldwide - Practice the drill! Know what to do with postpartum hemorrhage.
Wellness Resources

The Caring for the Caregiver Program provides resources such as the Caregiver Support Line (508-334-HELP) and The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which offers a variety of services and supports (including virtual peer support and wellness tips. EAP can be accessed at 866-263-3525, or www.LiveandWorkWell.com, [company code UmassMemorial]. More information is available on the Caring for the Caregiver page.
Working on Wellness
Yoga Classes with Dr. Liz Erban

Please join department members for early morning gentle yoga, Wednesday mornings 6:30am via Zoom. Much appreciation to Dr. Erban for hosting these outstanding classes. Join Zoom Meeting
Zumba with Dr. Anna Zheng
Please join department members Monday mornings at 6:00am, Thursday evenings at 6:00pm, Saturday mornings at 9:00am and get moving with Zumba via Zoom. Much appreciation to Dr. Anna Zheng for hosting these outstanding classes. Join Zoom meeting: https://kennedychc.zoom.us/j/5578995952?pwd=bzVnY0xXdFNTQkpQQ1hmZkw3Snh6Zz09