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Best of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds

From Zoo to ICU: what animal physiology can teach us about critical care

Title: Zoo to ICU
Speaker: Nick Mark, MD 
Objectives

  1. Understand the extremes of human physiology via animal examples (e.g. lactate in hibernation, severe anemia in arctic fish). 
  2. Understand how human diseases can recapitulate unique features of animal anatomy/physiology (e.g. "Buffalo chest", BUN/Cr ratio in vampire bats). 
  3. Understand how highly conserved features of vertebrate physiology can suggest best practice patterns in humans (e.g. tidal volume is the same for every mammal except dolphins). 

Date: January 14, 2022 

Dine Cultural Sensitivity with Illness

Title: Dine Cultural Sensitivity with Illness
Speaker: Sheila Goldtooth

Objectives:  

  1. Explain culturally appropriate communication with terminally ill patients and their family. 

  2. Identify ways to practice respect of the Din4 Culture. 

Date: July 13, 2018

Feedback, Entrustment, and Motivation: Getting to the heart of the matter in medical education

Title: Feedback, Entrustment, and Motivation: Getting to the heart of the matter in medical education
Speaker: Cheryl W. O'Malley, MD
Objectives: 

  1. Describe how the level of entrustment for specific professional activities informs daily decisions regarding level of supervision and autonomy.  

  1. Understand the factors impacting motivation. 

  1. Apply discussions of work-based observation to improved assessment and feedback. 

  1. Provide relevant updates on how these apply to our current roles.  

Date: September 7, 2018

Emerging situation: Novel 2019 Coronavirus

Title: Emerging situation: Novel 2019 Coronavirus
Speaker: R. Nicholas Staab, MD, MSPH
Objectives

  1. Have situational awareness of 2019-nCoV in Arizona, US and World. 
  2. Become familiar with the most updated resources for healthcare providers diagnosing and managing potential or confirmed patients with 2019-nCoV. 
  3. Learn the transmission, clinical presentation and prevention mechanisms of the emerging 2019-nCoV. 

Date: January 31, 2020

Career Planning in Academic Medicine

Title: Career Planning in Academic Medicine

Speaker: Guadalupe Federico-Martínez, PhD

Objectives:  

  1. Establish rationale for entering/remaining in academic medicine. 
  2. Provide a brief overview of the multiple professorial options physicians and other health professionals can integrate into if a career in academic medicine is desired. 
  3. Review and synthesize the most critical yet often overlooked dimensions in career planning for successful progression in academic medicine. 

Date: August 21, 2020

Art and Science of the Jugular Venous Pulse

Title: The Art and Science of the Jugular Venous Pulse

Speaker: Andre Mansoor, MD

Objectives:  

  1. Learn how to best identify the jugular venous pulse. 
  2. Learn how to best perform a quantitative assessment of the jugular venous pulse. 
  3. Learn how to best perform a qualitative assessment of the jugular venous pulse. 

Date: September 25, 2020

Now is the Time: Harnessing the moment to support trainees who are underrepresented in medicine

Title: Now is the Time: Harnessing the moment to support trainees who are underrepresented in medicine

Speaker: Quentin R. Youmans

Objectives

  1. Discuss tools for UIM trainee recruitment in 2020.  
  2. Explore the ways in which implicit and explicit bias affect the training environment and how to respond in support.  
  3. Define the role of mentorship in supporting UIM trainees over the span of their training journeys. 

Date: December 11, 2020

Eat the Oysters Keep the Pearls: Thriving while effectively processing feedback

Title: Eat the Oysters Keep the Pearls: Thriving while effectively processing feedback

Speaker: Jennifer Hunt, MD
Objectives:  

  1. Discover how to disentangle feedback from the feedback giver. 
  2. Learn 4 questions that will help you get specific about feedback. 
  3. Practice an easy tool to improve for feedback resiliency. 

Date: March 19, 2021

Benefits of Poetry for Practitioners and Patients

 

Title: Benefits of Poetry for Practitioners and Patients
Speaker: Rosemarie Dombrowski
Objectives:  

  1. To explore the benefits of the medical humanities, and more specifically, the power of poetry as an augmentative treatment for patients and a wellness-practice for medical students and physicians.  
  2. These objectives will be achieved through a combination of qualitative and arts-based studies a discussion of the facilitation practices and modalities of Revisionary Arts, the therapeutic poetry nonprofit the reading and discussion of a medical poem an expressive writing exercise and optional sharing. 

Date: April 16, 2021 

Diagnosing tuberculosis - Progress ad remaining challenges, Speaker: Jacqueline M. Achkar

Title: More than a feeling: The science of compassion
Speaker:
Objectives:  

  1. Understand the current evidence around how compassion impacts patient outcomes and physician well-being. 
  2. Discuss the principle of common humanity and the opportunities for connection across. 
  3. Apply strategies to increase compassion. 

Date: May 14, 2021 

Implicit Gender Bias and Microaggressions

Title: Implicit Gender Bias and Microaggressions
Speaker: Arghavan Salles
Objectives

  1. Participants will be able to define implicit bias. 
  2. Participants will be able to give examples of how bias impacts the careers of women. 
  3. Participants will be able to take action to support women's careers. 

Date: February 4, 2022 

Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals

Title: Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals 
Speakers: Leonardo Trasande and Jim G. Hendrick
Objectives

  1. Describe the key characteristics of endocrine disrupting chemicals. 
  2. Explain mechanisms by which these chemicals adversely affect human health. 
  3. Describe safe and simple steps to limit exposure. 

Date: February 11, 2022
 

Health Equity through Poetry

Title: Health Equity through Poetry 
Speaker: Rosemarie Dombrowski
Objectives

  1. To reexamine one of the most important/iconic relationships between poetry and medicine in 19th century America in order to explore the lessons it teaches us—specifically, how we can navigate the medical landscape with greater equity and compassion through poetry.  
  2. To further discuss some of the poetic tools used in narrative medicine and the quest for healthcare equity, such as championing patient agency through writing becoming more empathetic providers by reading poetry learning to better communicate and connect with patients whose languages and narratives may be unfamiliar to us through the use of medical poetry 

Date: April 1, 2022 

From Boomers to Zoomers: Working in Multi-generational Healthcare Teams

Title: From Boomers to Zoomers: Working in Multi-generational Healthcare Teams
Speaker: Vasu Bhavaraju
Objectives

  1. Differentiate features of the 4 current generations in the workforce. 
  2. Identify how each generation approaches supervision, mentorship, learning, and professionalism. 
  3. Implement ways to work successfully within multigenerational teams in the medical workplace. 

Date: April 29, 2022

Reproductive Justice in Healthcare

Title: Reproductive Justice in Healthcare
Speakers: Nichole Mahnert and Sheena Galhorta
Objectives

  1. Review the historical context of reproductive justice in health care. 
  2. Develop strategies to help women navigate through reproductive health concerns. 
  3. Expand your resource list to assist in access to equitable reproductive health care. 

Date: May 27, 2022