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News Around the Residency
"Must Know Info of the WFMR"
Block 1 (2014-15 academic year)
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 Graduation 2014!
Our June 13 ceremony at Tower Hill honored graduates of our Worcester Family Medicine Residency, Primary Care Psychology Fellowship, and the Nurse Practitioner Residency at the Family Health Center of Worcester.
Here again are our graduates and the honors they received. Congratulations to all!
Barre Family Health Center: Marcy Boucher, MD; Christopher Chang, MD; Tassy Hayden, MD; Lauren Linken, MD
Family Health Center of Worcester: Jemini Abraham, MD; Monica Agarwal, MD; Danane Chlor, FNP; Caitlin Crowley, FNP; Joan Fleishman, PsyD; Sara Rodenas-Martinez, MD; Navid Roder, MD
Hahnemann Family Health Center: Serena Hon, MD; Bency Louidor-Paulynice, MD; Bronwyn Sing, DO; Jeanna Spannring, PhD; Amanda Vitko, MD
Global Health Track: Monica Agarwal, MD; Christopher Chang, MD; Serena Hon, MD
STFM Resident Teacher Awards: Lauren Linken, MD; Sara Rodenas-Martinez, MD; Jeanna Spannring, PhD
Chief Resident Recognition: Christopher Chang, MD; Monica Agarwal, MD; Bronwyn Sing, DO
Family Medicine Resident Advocate Award: Noah Rosenberg, MD (PGY-2)
Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship: Monica Agarwal, MD
Shannon Jenkins Award: Navid Roder, MD
Institute of Healthcare Improvement Certificates: All graduates.
All graduates received a start-up reading kit for their future preschool patients, presented by Ron Adler
Outpatient Teacher of the Year: Claudaleedy Pierre, MD
Inpatient Teacher of the Year: Beth Koester, MD
Rookie of the Year: Shaylin Cersosimo, MD
Specialist Teacher of the Year: Dawn Tasillo, MD
Mentorship Award: Tina Runyan, PhD
Sam Pickens Award: Phil Bolduc, MD
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Block 1 Updates and Announcements
Foundations July 1- July 27
We look forward to welcoming our new residents to the floors throughout Block 1! We will be helping them to set a Foundation for their residency training. Thanks to all the senior residents and faculty who will make their experience outstanding. The new residents will be spending concentrated time on the FMIS and MCH services as well as in their health centers. Residents will also be visiting the main outpatient practices that admit to our services for the annual Foundations Swing.
E*Value
Thanks to the leadership of Dr. Sherrilyn Sethi, our evaluation system is undergoing a major upgrade. The new resident evaluations will focus on the development of competency through milestone assessment. Drs. Sethi and Potts will be arranging multiple opportunities for faculty development regarding the new system. More to follow.
ALSO (Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics)
A reminder that this year's ALSO course will take place in Rhode Island on August 15-16 at: Memorial Hospital of RI, 111 Brewster Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860. For more details and lodging options, please contact IMReis@carene.org. Books and CD's will be provided in the coming weeks.
New WFMR Smartphone App!
WFMR is excited to pilot a new smartphone app that will be customized for our program! We are working in conjunction with Unbound Medicine (the company behind the 5 Minute Clinical Consult app) to launch this new product later in July.
The newest INTERN SURVIVAL GUIDE and SECOND YEAR SURVIVAL GUIDE will be the first residency materials to be mobilized as an app. Stacy Potts, Michael Smith, and Len Levin are working closely with our PGY-2 resident editors (Joanne Dannenhoffer of Barre; Allison Ledoux of FHCW and Jeffrey Wacks of Hahnemann) to get this project ready before Block 2 begins. Our other PGY-2 residents and our chief residents have begun revising content for their respective guides.
We anticipate many more resources will be uploaded to this platform over the coming year. We are pleased to be the first residency program to customize an app through Unbound Medicine and plan to bring the Fitchburg residency into the fold over the coming months as well. Stay tuned!
Schedules
For your reference, please see the list below of 2014-15 Master Schedule Block Dates:
| BLOCK 1 | July 1- July 27 | BLOCK 8 | Jan. 12 - Feb. 8 | |
BLOCK 2
| July 28 - Aug. 24 | BLOCK 9 | Feb. 9 - Mar. 8 | | BLOCK 3 | Aug. 25 - Sept. 21 | BLOCK 10 | Mar. 9 - Apr 5 | | BLOCK 4 | Sept. 22 - Oct. 19 | BLOCK 11 | Apr. 6 - May 3 | | BLOCK 5 | Oct. 20 - Nov. 16 | BLOCK 12 | May 4 - May 31 | | BLOCK 6 | Nov. 17 - Dec. 14 | BLOCK 13 | June 6 - June 30 | | BLOCK 7 | Dec. 15 - Jan. 11 | |
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Hospital Medicine Updates (from Patricia Seymour, MD)
There are now TWO intern pagers: 4061 and 4064 (one for each resident team). These pagers stay with the team (if the intern goes to clinic the resident takes the team pager.
A reminder to overnight teams to ASSIGN patients at the time of admission to the correct daytime team (4061 OR 4064.)
The Night resident/intern is now also responsible for printing up the signout list and writing in the team coverage (either 4061 or 4064 with the last names of the intern and resident for the day) for the SOUTH SIX resident patients and then giving this document to the overnight charge nurse. FYI: the nursing staff is using this document to practice setting up consistent nurse-resident teams.
DO NOT cohort new admissions in the ED (i.e. do three, hold the orders and talk to the attending all at once). It causes some patient flow problems in the ER. Either talk to the attending after each admission OR turn in your orders as you go then present all at once to the attending and adjust orders thereafter as needed.
Welcome, New Sports Medicine Fellows!
As the new academic year begins, the Sports Medicine Fellowship, previously administered through the Fitchburg residency, has moved to WFMR! Tamara Cullen will now be administering the Fellowship, working closely with Fellowship Director Herb Stevenson, MD.
Welcome to our two new Fellows for 2014-15:
Nathan Cardoos, MD is a recent graduate of the Tufts Family Medicine Residency Program. Nathan grew up in Littleton, Massachusetts where he was an avid soccer player, graduated from Williams College and went on to complete his Medical School training at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Tara Futrell. MD is a graduate of BayState Med-Peds Residency in 2006 and has been practicing primary care in Greenfield, MA for 7 years. Tara is a graduate of University of Texas Medical School at Houston and was a collegiate track athlete.
It was great to meet many of our new residents at Sunday's annual Welcome BBQ at the Ecotarium!
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Workshop Schedule Block 1
Resident Meeting - July 8
PGY-1
7/8 Foundations
PGY-2
7/8 PGY-2 as Teacher
Drs. Potts/Hargreaves/Mullin
7/15 First Year Rotation
7/22 First Year Rotation
7/29 HC Orientation
PGY-3
7/8 Balint and Health Law
Peter Martin, Esq.
7/15: No Balint
7/22: Balint
Drs. Kasendorf and Lindholm
7/29: Balint and Independent Project Time
Drs. Kasendorf and Lindholm
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Interested in Joining a Residency Committee?
We are looking for faculty and residents who would like to join the following committees. Please contact Dr. Potts if you are interested:
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: The Executive Committee (EC) is involved in all significant decisions affecting the residency program. Members will be responsible for representing the options and recommendations of their constituencies to the EC. The Program Director will serve as chair. The Dept. Chair will serve as ex officio member. Membership will include: the Associate Director, a faculty representative from each Health Center and one faculty at large member; the chief resident from each Health Center; two (2) second year residents (cannot be from same Health Center), and a rotating first year resident; and an administration representative. Each Health Center will have a resident and faculty alternate who may sit as a voting member in the absence of a resident or faculty rep from that Health Center.
RESIDENCY SELECTION COMMITTEE: A free-standing representative committee of the residency. It has full responsibility for all matters pertaining to admission to the residency program, including health center assignments and the development of its own internal policies and procedures. The committee chair will keep the Executive Committee informed of major policy changes. The Program Director serves as chair of the Committee, along with the Associate Director of Admissions, and four reps from each Health Center, elected by faculty and residents of that Health Center. Must include at least 1 faculty and 1 resident from each Health Center. Recommendation is at least two of each. At large member chosen by the Program Director. The At large representative should be a resident or faculty, whicheve has the least representation on the committee. Residents are encouraged to remain on the committee for all remaining years in the program. Faculty serve a term of not less than 2 years.
CURRICULUM COMMITTEE: The Curriculum Committee is responsible for reviewing the residency's curriculum, recommending appropriate changes in the curriculum and recommending a process of change when appropriate. The Associate Residency Director serves as chair. Members consist of at least one faculty and one resident from each Health Center.
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Celebrations and Congratulations!
Congratulations to 2014 graduate Amanda Vitko, MD (and soon-to-be faculty member at Hahnemann) and her husband Jason on the birth of their second son, Miles Pierse Vitko on June 10. Miles weighed in at 7 lbs 3 oz and measured 19 3/4 inches!
"Happy Birthday" to our recent and upcoming celebrants:
7/1 Julia Fleet, DO, PGY-2
7/9 Jennifer Luo-Powell, DO, PGY-2
7/11 Anna Hsu-Chon, MD, PGY-1
7/12 Carrington Koebele, MD, PGY-2
7/19 Jessica Bossie, MD, PGY-1
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Got news (or a fun fact) for our next newsletter? Contact Dr. Stacy Potts at Stacy.Potts @umassmemorial.org or Michael Smith, MS, Associate Director of Admissions at Michael.Smith@umassmemorial.org
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