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The Learning Communities at UWSMPH have three guiding principles:
Create a caring community for all learning community members
Help learning community members make sense of their experiences
Empower the community and its members to make transparent and positive decisions
Through these guiding principles, the learning communities will foster community, leadership, professional-ism, well-being and sharing of knowledge in order to develop more intellectually, socially, physically and emo-tionally prepared physicians.
IN THIS ISSUE
Share The Health...READ MORE
Share the Health Poster Award...READ MORE
GHHS Art In Healthcare...READ MORE
Sexual Misconduct: The Conversation Continues...READ MORE
Enrollment Holds...READ MORE
Wisconsin Medical Society Scholar-ships...READ MORE
Mark Your Calendar!...READ MORE
Volume 2, Issue 5
December 2015
House Calls
Y O U R N E W S F R O M T H E U W S M P H L E A R N I N G C O M M U N I T I E S
InterHouse Council Leaders COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OFFICERS
Saira Khanna: [email protected] Gundersen
Cassie Schandel: [email protected] Bamforth
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LIAISONS
Andrew Vegel: [email protected] Bardeen
Katie Eszes: [email protected] Bardeen
Danny Jones: [email protected] Gundersen
Sherry Tang: [email protected] Middleton
Eric Moffet: [email protected] Bamforth
Priya Pathak: [email protected] Bamforth
Taylor Boland: [email protected] Bamforth
Rebecca Warwick: [email protected] McPherson
Anne-Marie Giuca: [email protected] McPherson
FINANCE OFFICER
Anatoliy Nechyporenko:[email protected] Middleton
SECRETARY
Katey Molinarolo: [email protected] Bardeen
ADMISSIONS AMBASSADORS
Ashley Soppe: [email protected] Bamforth
Cydney Heid: [email protected] Bardeen
Maureen Riegert: [email protected] Bardeen
BIG SIB/LITTLE SIB COORDINATORS
Erik Anderson: [email protected] Bamforth
Lily Thompson: [email protected] Bardeen
Clara Ye: [email protected] Gundersen
Derek Hoerres: [email protected] McPherson
Stephanie Fricke: [email protected] Middleton
HOUSE CUP COORDINATORS
Courtney Pokrzywa: [email protected] Bamforth
Abby Schuh: [email protected] McPherson
NOON TALK COORDINATOR
Nikita Shulzhenko: [email protected] Bamforth
COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR
Katharine Molinarolo Bardeen
IMPORTANT DATES FOR DECEMBER
02 IHC Noon Talk 04 House Cup Ice Skating at the Edgewater 09 House Cup Holiday Sweater Contest & Cookie Decorating Noon in the Atrium 09 6pm GHHS Active Expressions in Art 18 Last day of classes 21 Gift Wrapping at East Towne Mall
Thank You Learning Communities!
The Community Engagement Liaisons and InterHouse Council would like to thank all House members who donat-
ed seven super stuffed bags of grocer-ies for the Allied Drive Neighborhood.
Your donations helped to provide Thanksgiving meals to 2,500 families
in need of a hot and healthy meal.
Over the summer, I had the opportunity to work with Share the Health Free Gynecology Clinic as part of the new PRIME-Madison pro-gram. I applied to this program last January knowing only that Share The Health was a public health project that would fulfill the field experience requirements for the Path of Distinction in Public Health. I have an interest in women’s health, so the project caught my attention. The project was so reward-ing.
Share the Health (STH) is a unique organization that provides specialized gynecologic care to unin-sured women living in Dane and surrounding counties. The clinic is staffed by attending phy-sicians from many of Madison’s health sys-tems and clinics, some resident physicians, and medical students. STH allows medical students to learn about gynecolo-gy and gain exposure to the field while helping the physicians to provide care to underserved women.
My project had two main focuses: to evaluate the
current referral system and to increase aware-ness of gynecologic health topics within the underserved populations in the area. I worked with Kelly Klingensmith, an MPH student, to network with various organiza-tions in the community, find out what topics they wanted and most need-ed to learn about, and organized presentations about these topics. In addition, I conducted an email survey of all the referring providers to identify components of the referral system that could be improved to reduce barriers to unin-sured women accessing gynecologic care.
Over the course of the summer, Kelly and I learned that one of the greatest needs among many of the community organizations was knowledge of resources available to uninsured women and how to ac-cess these resources. In response to this finding, Kelly and I worked with Dr. Mary Landry and Dr. Katherine O’Rourke, to create handouts and algorithms to guide or-ganizations/clinics and women through the pro-cess of accessing wom-
en’s
health care.
Our project was recently presented at the Wom-en’s Health and Health Equity Research Sympo-sium, where it received one of the three poster awards.
Beyond this recognition, this project has been incredibly meaningful to me in both my education and experience. I gained hands-on experience in public health work as well as an incredible amount of knowledge about resources availa-ble to underserved wom-en.
In my interactions with these women and the organizations that serve them, I also gained a better appreciation for the struggles that they face in accessing care. I was greatly rewarded by the opportunity to make a small contribution to the work of reducing the barriers. This summer left me inspired to con-tinue this type of work in the future.
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Resources for Students
Student Services [email protected]
Gwen McIntosh Assistant Dean for Students 608-263-4920
Christopher Stillwell Director of Student Services 608-262-7543
Jodi Sherman Student Services Coordinator Disability Access & Accommodations
608-263-7135
Terri Dolan Clinical Schedules/OASIS 608-263-4923
Academic Support Sharon Marks Student Academic Support 608-263-8280
Adam Brigham Student Academic Support 608-265-5030
Dual Programs Paul Cook Medical Scientist Training Program 608-262-6321
Dipesh Navsaria MD-MPH Dual Degree Program 608-262-7180
Mindy Schreiner PRIME Coordinator 608-263-2298
Debra Siegenthaler Paths of Distinction Coordinator 608-263-3036
Community Service Programs Kristi Fossum Jones 608-262-4204
Student Ombudsperson Lynn Maki 608-263-2525
Share The Health Kristin Brown, M2, Gundersen House
M3/M4's- Share the Health needs your help! We are looking for volunteers on Thursday
December 10th and January 21st.
Sign up here!
Looking forward to seeing you at clinic!
Share The Health Wins Best Poster Award
Background on Share
the Health
Share the Health (STH) is the only organization of its kind in Wisconsin, providing gynecologic specialty care to unin-sured women in Dane County and neighboring counties.
In 2013, Dr. Mary Landry and Dr. Katherine O’Rourke founded Share the Health. While other organizations offer screening exams, family planning and primary care, STH serves as a free consultative clinic that solely diagnoses and treats gynecologic pathology including be-nign, pre-cancerous, and cancerous conditions.
STH operates one even-ing a month at Madison Women’s Health, LLP, which generously do-nates space and over-head.
Run entirely by volun-teers, our goals are to improve the health of underserved women in need of gynecologic care and to inspire a commit-ment among future pro-fessionals, of all voca-tions, to care for under-served women in the community.
Community Education
In spring of 2015 STH took a Masters in Public Health (MPH) student, Kelly Klingensmith, with the goal of developing a community education curriculum and conduct-ing free, community edu-cation talks about topics such as:
preventive care and
general women's health
pap smear
guidelines,abnormalpap smears,and cervicalcancer
abnormal
uterine bleeding
postmenopausal
bleeding
symptoms of meno-
pause
pelvic pain
contraception
sexual health and
sexually transmittedinfections
However, after conduct-ing a few community education seminars a need for a universal guide to accessing health care was identi-fied by both providers and community origina-tions.
In the summer of 2015 a first year medical stu-dent, Kristin Brown, was brought on to work with STH as part of the Pre-vention Innovations in Medical Education (PRIME) program. Kris-tin Brown spent much of her summer creating the unique, user-friendly algorithms that have now become the "Guides to Accessing Women's Health Care," a re-source to both patients and providers .
2015 UW Women’s Health and Health Equity Research
Lecture & Symposium
Given the tremendous amount of work that went into developing the algorithms, STH collabo-
rators Kelly Klingen-smith, Kristin Brown, Dr. Katherine O’Rourke and Dr. Mary Landry decided that the 2015 UW Wom-en’s Health and Health Equity Research Lecture & Symposium featuring Florence P. seemed like a natural fit to display the work.
Share the Health’s post-er titled, Share the Health: Providing, im-proving and fostering health care resources for underserved women throughout southern Wisconsin, was selected for a Best Poster Award due to the novelty and function of the work.
Kristin Brown has contin-ued her medical studies; Kelly Klingensmith con-tinues administering the “Guides to Accessing Women's Health Care” during the community education talks and throughout her work with STH as the Community Educator. Dr. Katherine O’Rourke and Dr. Mary Landry continue to com-mit to reducing health disparities throughout the state by conducting the community health talks and providing criti-cal, life-saving services to uninsured women in the Madison area.
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Electronic Residency Applica-
tion Service
Association of American Medi-
cal Colleges
Careers in Medicine
Fellowship and Residency Elec-
tronic Interactive Database
Arnold P. Gold Foundation
Financial Information, Re-
sources, Services and Tools
Student Financial Aid Amy Whitford [email protected] 608-262-3060
University Health Services After-Hours Mental Health Crisis Services 608-265-5600 (option 9) After-Hours Nurse 608-265-5600 (option 1)
Let’s Talk Travis Fox, Psy.D. [email protected]
McBurney Disability Resource Center Cathy Trueba [email protected] 608-263-2741
L-R: Kristin Brown, BS,; Kelly Klingensmith,
BA,; Katherine O’Rourke, MD; Mary Landry,
MD poster award .
Invited guests for the November 18th Gold Humanism Honor Society monthly Rounds included Sarah Petto MFA who started the Arts in Healthcare program at University of Wisconsin Hospital. Petto worked in the American Family Children’s Hos-pital where there were many wonder-ful art activities and asked "Why don't we have this for adults in the hospi-tal?"
Joining Petto was Jeremy Amble, artist and photographer. Mr. Amble suffered a high spinal cord injury that interrupted his career and particularly affected his ability to do photography. Amble works with Petto in the Arts in Healthcare program as a photog-raphy consultant.
Studies reveal that art aids in the speed of recovery as well as creates a positive outlook for both patients and staff dealing with difficult situa-tions or news.
According to Petto, expressive art is different than art therapy. When a patient is in the hospital setting they lose a great deal of control over themselves and their environment. Expressive art allows these patients to regain a sense of control over their environment.
Patients and families awaiting test results or treatments receive art kits to engage them during their wait.
Art provides and outlet for patients’ experiences and stories. They don't need to be an artist; they need the opportunity to express themselves through art.
The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation provided adaptive equip-ment for Arts in Healthcare so that patients, regardless of physical abili-ties, could participate in expressive art.
During the presentation, Dr. Schalch asked "how do you approach patients to join in?" Petto indicated that people will see the "pop up" workshops and she will tell them "it's free, it's fun and it's healthy!" While some patients will turn down the opportunity to partici-pate, most patients’ first concern is that "they're not artists." However, with encouragement, many will join in, particularly if they are stuck watch-ing TV or doing the same things over and over for months.
Petto and Amble provide expressive art in a variety of ways to both patient and non-patient populations. For ex-ample, Arts in Healthcare uses part-ner organizations to help patients reenter the community setting. Family members are invited to join because it’s important to the patients and their families to have a semblance of "normal" family activities. Medical staff may participate in order to cope with the difficult situations they deal with on a regular basis.
Arts in Healthcare helps people with the healing process or to accept the changes they encounter or will live with the rest of their lives. There is also an Arts in Healthcare month that is celebrated annually with an art-making activity for the entire hospital community.
Evaluation is important for optimizing effectiveness and impact of art in healthcare. They now have five years of data collected and are excited to examine the results.
Petto is part of the Health and Heal-ing Committee which meets monthly. Students who would like to learn more about Arts in Healthcare or the Health and Healing Committee can contact Sarah Petto at
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GHHS Introduces Students to Arts-In-Healthcare
Gold Humanism Honor Society Invites You to
Active Expressions in Art
Wednesday, December 9th, 6:00-7:00pm
Please join GHHS as they continue the theme of art in healthcare. Participants will have the opportunity to experience and
understand, first-hand, the benefits of expressive art.
Please watch your email for details and RSVP!
L-R: Laura Wittmann, Mike Sookochoff, Jeremy
Amble, and Sarah Petto
Enrollment Holds
If a hold has ben placed on your rec-ord you will see the hold in your Stu-dent Center in MyUW. Instructions and deadlines for releasing the hold will also be indicated. Be sure to follow those instructions on a timely basis so that you are reg-istered for your courses!
Students who have not submitted SHIP, TB, flu and other required forms will have holds placed on their academic enrollment and access to Learn@UW. Emails from Student Services, Uni-versity Health Services or other de-partments should be viewed immedi-ately for potential holds.
9.5% vs. 0.8% undergraduates. For students with disabilities, regardless of gender or enroll-
ment status, the rate of AAC was 14.6% vs. 6.8%.
In the area of sexual harassment,
graduate students more often identified the offender as a facul-ty member (22.2% of female graduate students/15.1% of male graduate students vs. 4.1% of
female undergraduates/3.8% of male undergraduates.)
Graduate students more fre-
quently identified the relationship of the offender as teacher or ad-visor (12.4% of female graduate students/7.6% male graduate students vs. 3.4% of female un-dergraduates/3.0% of male un-dergraduates or a co-worker/boss/supervisor (23.6% female graduate students/19.1% male graduate students vs. 7.7% fe-male undergraduates/5.8% male undergraduates.
If you were unable to attend the November 17th conversation, the Medical Student Association (MSA) will spearhead additional conversa-
tions on this important topic. There is also a Conversation Space on the second floor adjacent to the Bardeen House cluster room to help students gather information and ideas.
JOIN THE CONVERSATION! #ItsOnUsUW
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In 2014, University of Wisconsin-Madison students responded to a campus-wide survey about the prevalence of sexual violence, harassment, and misconduct as the University seeks to improve the safety and quality of the campus environment. Results from the survey were different for undergraduate stu-dents vs. graduate and profes-sional students. Some of the notable differences in results are:
More undergraduate than
graduate students tend to think they are knowledgea-ble about the university’s sexual assault policies, proce-dures and resources for help.
Non-heterosexual students (both
undergraduate and graduate) have a higher rate of non-consensual contact or absence of affirmative consent (AAC). For male non-heterosexual graduate and professional students it is
Sexual Misconduct: The Conversation Continues
These kittens holding records are far
cuter than a department holding your
records.
Wisconsin Medical Society Scholarships
The Wisconsin Medical Society Foun-dation offers scholarship opportuni-ties. To be considered for scholar-ships during the 2016-17 academic year, apply between now and the
February 2nd, 2016 deadline. The purpose of the Wisconsin Medi-cal Society Foundation Scholarship Program is to provide assistance to outstanding students who will fill Wis-consin’s health care workforce needs in the future. A majority of the funds are available to students enrolled in medical school in Wisconsin with preference to those considering Wis-consin residents and those who demonstrate a desire to practice in
Wisconsin upon completing their training. For more information on scholarships and access to the application form, visit Wisconsin Medical Society Scholarships. Applications may also be obtained from the Wisconsin Medical Society Foundation by calling 866.442.3800, ext. 3789 or 608.442.3789, or by e-mailing [email protected].
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IHC December Events Watch Your Email for Details!
Wednesday, December 2nd Noon Talk
Friday, December 4th House Cup
Ice Skating at the Edgewater
Wednesday, December 9th House Cup
Noon in the Atrium Holiday Sweater Contest &
Cookie Decorating
Mark Your Calendar!
Summer Opportunities Fair Wednesday January 6th
Noon in the Atrium
M1s will have the opportunity to speak personally with
many of the local organiza-tions providing research and other summer opportunities.
Operation Education Wednesday, January 13th
5:30pm in the Atrium
The Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association, in conjunction with the Wisconsin Medical Society Founda-
tion, will host the 11th annual Operation Education for M1s and M2s. It’s your chance to speak with medical
alumni about your career interests. This special event is free, includes
dinner, and a fun competition playing Milton Bradley’s OPERATION! ®
Watch your email in early January for pre-registration and event information.
December Food Drive for Allied Neighborhood
Community Engagement Liaisons for the Learning Communities will continue collecting food for various community agencies through the month of December. Your non-perishable food items will help families long past the
Thanksgiving holiday! Collection bins are located in each House.
Post-Exam Reviews: 12:00-1:00
Tuesday Dec. 01 HSLC 2272 Wednesday Dec. 02 HSLC 2272 Thursday Dec. 03 HSLC 2272 Friday Dec. 04 HSLC 2276 Monday Dec. 07 HSLC 2276 Tuesday Dec. 08 HSLC 2276 Wednesday Dec. 09 HSLC 2276 Thursday Dec. 10 HSLC 2276
December Toy Drive for Neighborhood House
The InterHouse Council welcomes your donation of toys and gifts for chil-dren of all ages, with an emphasis on “healthy” gifts such as sports equip-ment, books, and interactive games. Collection bins are located next to the
Food Drive bins in each House.
Gift-Wrappers Needed!
If you will be in the Madison area, Dane County Parent Council needs gift-wrappers at East Towne Mall from 9:00am-9:00pm on December 21st. Shifts run for three hours. All tips and donations go to the Dane County Parent Council Emergency Fund. Contact Katie Eszes at [email protected]
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