GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION Review

October 2013

Residency

We welcome these new residents to our OB-GYN Residency Program located at Sacred Heart Health System in Pensacola: Dr. Caitlin Dunham, FSU College of Medicine; Dr. Ana Antonetti, St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine; Dr. Lindsey McAlpin, University of Texas Medical School at Houston; and Dr. Brittney Williams, University of Utah School of Medicine.

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Our 2013 Obstetrics and Gynecology PGY-1 Residents

Internal Medicine New Academic Year Dinner Gathering

A fun-filled evening was held at Associate Program Director Dr. Ray Shashaty’s home.

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Program Director Dr. Gary Goforth speaking with a medical student interested in our Family Medicine Residency. Far right is Dr. Alfred Gitu, Clinical Assistant Professor.

American Academy of Family Physicians’ Annual National Conference

Dr. Cavanagh Joins New Physician Leadership Academy

One of our Family Medicine Residency faculty members, Dr. Christina Cavanagh, Clinical Assistant Professor, is in the New Physician Leadership Academy of the Florida Medi-

cal Association. These members will gain critical skills to prepare them for leadership roles in medicine. Congratulations, Dr. Cava-nagh, we wish you a successful, productive year as you embark on this exciting journey.

Dr. Cavanagh

The American Academy of Family Physicians’ National Conference in August brought togeth-er more than 300 residency programs and 1,900 medical students interested in pursuing family medicine. The delegation from the Florida State University College of Medicine’s brand-new fam-ily medicine residency program at Lee Memorial Health System (LMHS) in Fort Myers arrived with an extra spring in our step, having received full accreditation in May and looking forward to con-necting with students who could be in our pioneer class this summer. Our exhibitor booth adjoined booths from Flor-ida’s 11 other family medicine residency pro-grams, and it was clear from the start that we’d have record traffic. Students came in droves, and the “Florida aisle” was clearly the most popular in the large exhibitor hall. In fact, we even had to rearrange the booths to create more room! Our program director Dr. Goforth, who has been at-tending this conference for more than 20 years, said he’d never seen so many students visit one booth. At the end of the conference’s second day, we at-tended a cocktail event hosted by the FAFP, dur-ing which each Florida program had a chance to articulate what makes it unique. Afterward, we drove off for a barbecue dinner with nine medi-cal students who had visited the booth repeat-edly and expressed particular interest in joining our residency program. It was a fun way to get to know them better and to cement the bonds that had begun to form. In all, we had 95 visitors to our booth, some on multiple occasions. Several have since written us to express their ongoing interest, and we are look-ing forward to having a robust interview and re-cruiting season this fall.

Dinner with students interested in family medicine.

Dr. Gitu

FSU’s New Family Medicine Residency at LMHS

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Please join us in welcoming new Internal Medicine Residents to our program located at Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare: Dr. Sura Jermanus, Ross University; Dr. Aisha Waheed, American University of Antigua; Dr. Jose Martinez, Lake Erie Col-lege of Osteopathic Medicine; Dr. Matthew Moss, FSU College of Medicine; Dr. Gregory Todd, Program Director; Dr. Ray Shashaty, Associate Program Director; Dr. Austin Henkel, FSU College of Medicine; Dr. Nathan Blake, Morehouse School of Medicine; Dr. Vikas Patel, St. George’s University; Dr. Matthew DeNunzio, Ross University; Dr. Philip Denoux, Ross University and Dr. Sabrina Ali, St. George’s University.

Nancy Clark, MEd, Director of Medical Informatics Education, conducting an Introduction to our Online Library session during Orientation.

Welcome, FSU College of Medicine PGY-1 IM Residents

Dr. Fatima Neemuch-wala, one of FSU’s P G Y - 2 Pediatr ic Residents,

New Pediatric Chief Resident, Dr. Sarah Waite

Dr. Sarah Waite is a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and graduated from LSU with a BS in psychology before pur-suing her interest in medicine. Prior to starting medical school, she worked as an obstetrical and surgical technician for four years while taking pre-med classes. Following medical school, she chose to complete her training in pediatrics in Pensacola at the FSU College of Medicine residency program at Sacred Heart Health System (SHHS). This hospital has successfully trained pediatricians for decades with excellent faculty and staff who are eager to train residents to provide quality health care to the children in the Pensacola area and throughout Northwest Florida. Sarah

plans to continue working at SHHS as a pediatric hospitalist following her chief resident year. She and her husband, Kyle, have made Pensacola a home for their two young children. The entire family enjoys the beauty of the Gulf Coast with weekend beach trips every chance they get.

Honor Received

was selected to receive a travel grant award to attend the 2013 North American Cystic Fibro-sis Conference this October in Salt Lake City, Utah. Congrat-ulations, Dr. Neemuchwala. We wish you a safe, produc-tive learning experience.

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Dr. Joan Younger Meek

I extend a warm welcome to our new residents and our new fellow for the 2013-2014 academic year. The

FSU College of Medicine is commit-ted to providing a high-quality educa-tional and work environment for your residency and fellowship training. Our GME leadership, program directors, coordinators, faculty, and staff are here to assist each of you in meeting your career objectives. Our previous year’s GME Annual Report was shared in writing with the FSU Board of Trustees, and Dean Fog-arty presented a review and update of our residency programs in person Sep-tember 13. We have instituted a new format for our GME meetings this year. We will continue quarterly meetings of the full Graduate Medical Education Committee, but we will have biannual meetings at each of our clinical partner institutions and practices, in order to devote more time and attention to the needs of those individual programs. We also are enlisting additional repre-sentatives from administration, nurs-ing, quality improvement, patient safety, and/or risk management to contribute to those meetings and help in linking our programs with these important areas within the hospital systems. The goal is to help eliminate the silos that may separate our pro-grams from other integral areas focus-ing on quality of care and improving our health care systems. I especially appreciate the dedication of our elected resident representatives from our programs in participating in these important meetings. We continue to position all of our programs to enter into the ACGME Next Accreditation System and to focus on the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) focus areas. The ACGME has initiated CLER site visits at all institutions that sponsor graduate medical education to evaluate the residents and programs as they function within the hospital sys-tem.

We look forward to meeting with all of our GME program directors and co-ordinators at the Fall Clerkship Direc-tors’ meeting in Orlando this month. This is a great opportunity to establish connections between undergraduate and graduate medical education. Our program directors will participate in the specialty-specific clerkship meet-ings and share information about how we can help prepare our medical stu-dents to be even more successful as they enter residency programs. At the meeting, we will continue our leader-ship development series for our pro-gram directors, led by Dr. Chris Mul-rooney. Connie Donohoe, our GME Program Manager, will be meeting with all of the program coordinators for additional training and network-ing. Happy Fall and Go Noles!

Congratulations! A big congratulations to PGY-4 OB-GYN Resident Dr. Ashley Poe. She won the Florida Society for REI Best Resident Research project at the ACOG District XII all-Florida resident research competition. This competi-tion was held at the ACOG Annual District XII meeting recently in West Palm Beach. This is an honor, and the first time a Florida State Univer-sity resident at Sacred Heart Health System has won such an award. Her project was titled Advancing Endome-trioses Stage is Associated with a Decline in Antimullerian Hormone Independent of Age and Tobacco. Her project mentors were Dr. Barry Ripps, Clinical Profes-sor and Reproductive Endocrinologist at Florida State University, and Dr. Raid Amin, Clinical Professor of Math-ematics and Statistics at the University of West Florida. Great job, Dr. Poe!

Dr. AshleyPoe

Words from our First Fellow

Dr. James Trimble

“ I could not be happier to have matched into Florida State Uni-

versity’s procedural dermatology fel-lowship at Dermatology Associates of Tallahassee. My goal was to find a fellowship that emphasizes Mohs and reconstructive surgery, and offers the opportunity to learn about cutaneous radiation for selected cancers. I am pleased to have begun training with Dr. Cognetta and his staff. Prior to arriving in Tallahas-see, I completed my residency training in the Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery at The University of South Florida. During residency I had the opportunity to work on publi-cations and to participate in the educa-tion of medical students, while work-ing to master the concepts of general and surgical dermatology. Of all my ef-forts in residency, I am the most proud of my service to patients. Florida will always be home to me and my wife, Amanda. I grew up watching my father and grandfather practice dermatology in Jacksonville. I feel very fortunate to have been given the chance to follow in their footsteps. Thank you for allowing me the op-portunity to be part of Florida State University's procedural dermatology fellowship. I look forward to continu-ing this year with great excitement and enthusiasm.

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FSU’s Procedural Dermatology Fellowship

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WELCOME to our 2013-2014 FSU College of Medicine Pediatric PGY-1 Residents located at Sacred Heart Hospital

Priyamvada Chaudhary, MDRoss University

Rachael Evans, DOLake Erie College of Osteopathic

Medicine

Mina Hakim, MDMorehouse School of Medicine

Edwin Mwakalindile, MDUniversity of Alabama School of

Medicine

Allison Payne, MDUniversity of Tennessee Health Sci-

ence Center College of Medicine

Robert Rawlins, MDUniversity of Colorado School of

Medicine

W. Scott Wakefield, MDUniversity of Alabama School of

Medicine

Crystal Tidwell, DOUniversity of Alabama School of

Medicine

Jessica Tate, MDEast Tennessee State University Col-

lege of Medicine

Suggestions? Contact the *Editor

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Joan Meek, MD | Associate Dean / Designated Institutional Official | joan.meek@med.fsu.edu | 407.835.4103Chris Mulrooney, PhD | Assistant Dean | chris.mulrooney@med.fsu.edu | 850.645.9646

Connie Donohoe, MPH | Program Manager (*Residency Review editor) | connie.donohoe@med.fsu.edu | 850.645.6867Jessee Graham | Program Associate | jessee.graham@med.fsu.edu | 850.645.9977

GME Office Staff

Promoting Global Awareness

OB-GYN Resident Physician Graduates Dr. Lisa Bean and Dr. Barbrette Baldwin on a medical outreach trip in the Philip-pines. While there, they saved the life of an expectant mom in her 20s who was di-agnosed with placenta previa. Drs. Bean and Baldwin performed an emergency C-section and delivered a healthy baby boy!

How best to promote the global awareness humanistic side of medicine in residency education? In a procedural-based specialty such as OB-GYN, ensuring adequate and con-sistent experience across all learners helps provide flexibility in educational assignments difficult to achieve. Re-cent changes and a switch to minimum numbers has allowed for residency programs to tailor the individual learn-er experience. In the past few years, we have sent residents from our pro-gram on medical missions to the Phil-ippines, Honduras, Peru, and Haiti. These diverse experiences have intro-duced our residents to women’s health care in low-resource settings and have allowed them to bring back a unique perspective on health care delivery in the U.S. In October 2013, PGY-3 OB-GYN resident Jessica Jackson, MD, will be heading to Rwanda. She will be staying and working with Dr. Wash-ington Hill, former Florida State Uni-versity College of Medicine Clerkship Director, Sarasota campus, and will be completing her project on maternal mortality under his direction. These global rotations have al-lowed for significant personal and pro-fessional growth, as well as shaping a lifelong commitment to global health

Dr. DeCesare

Dr. Julie Zemaitis DeCesare Program Director / Associate Professor, Obstetrics & Gyne-cology Residency Program

care awareness. For a program direc-tor, it takes creative scheduling and a fair degree of flexibility to pull this off, but the rewards in these young learn-ers far exceed any scheduling difficul-ties.

Congratulations to Pediatric Resident Dr. Crystal Tidwell and Obstetrics and Gynecology Resident Dr. Brett Tidwell on the birth of their son, Carter Davis Tidwell, born on August 20, weighing 6 lb. and 10 oz.

It’s A Boy!

Simulation training is an integral part of any well-rounded residency pro-gram. These FSU Obstetric and Gyne-cology residents are refining their clini-cal skills. Simulation machines allow learning to occur in a safe, supervised environment.

OB/Gyn Held a Mock C-Section Drill

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