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Our MICU team last year had low morale after a really horrible code. We still needed to round in the afternoon. And there was a guy on our service waiting to transfer to the floor who had just been decannulated. Before that he had talked over his trach saying he wanted ribs. 1/2

Grateful to ATS Scholar for the chance to share some reflections on the importance of leaders encouraging hope in the ICU! atsjournals.org/doi/10.34197/a…

For World Lung Day, we are eager to share our letter to the American Thoracic Society, calling to eliminate race adjustment in Pulmonary Function Tests. With this, we can take steps towards advancing racial equity in health care. Read: on.nyc.gov/3regzes

One of the purest joys of chief year is the time and flexibility to read about new teaching topics. Today’s topic: how the “long tox” comprehensive drug screen is designed to be maximally effective in an overdose of unknown substance. So cool!

Please join us for UW Medicine Grand Rounds on Friday! General Internal Medicine at UW Medicine’s own Adelaide @McClintockMD and Nina Tan will be teaming up with UCSF’s Jessica Beaman to present “Now what? Roles for the Internist in the post-Dobbs era.” Noon Pacific Time! medicine.uw.edu/grand-rounds

We found that residents in our program lacked skills to accurately complete death certificates; when we realized it wasn’t just a local problem we created a curriculum anyone can adapt for UME, GME or CME learners! Check it out:

As an IM resident in the ICU, I felt like my male colleagues were doing tons of lines while I got few. I wondered: am I imagining this? Is this gendered? Turns out others wondered the same. So we decided to study it. The results are now out in @atsscholar. atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.34…

*NEW* Viewpoint, w/ @ZekEmanuel, Katie Kraschel: Given that abortion is health care, why are so many medical professional societies holding national meetings in states that preclude abortion access? A brief 🧵: bit.ly/3Y6wOIN

Rising chief residents: consider the JAMA Internal Medicine #teachablemoment editorial fellowship! An amazing opportunity to learn about the editorial process with a great team of mentors. Happy to discuss more via DM! drive.google.com/file/d/1J8k-Xt…

If your journal is going to automatically reject papers based on certain policies you should 1) include the policy in your instructions for authors and 2) not take a month to send the rejection

Tomorrow at 12 PST join UW Department of Medicine Grand Rounds where I’ll be speaking about creating our emotion-focused debriefing curriculum for senior residents and sharing debriefing tools for all clinicians! medicine.uw.edu/grand-rounds/2…

Congratulations to Dr. Amanda Shepherd, (General Internal Medicine at UW Medicine) recipient of the 39th annual Paul B. Beeson Award! Amanda Shepherd was chosen by the IM residents UW IM Chiefs for outstanding clinical teaching and for exemplifying scholarship, humility, compassion, and integrity.

Last year the UW IM Chiefs wanted to do more than simply returning to in-person conferences in the post-COVID era. Read more about our vision for the future of lunch conferences, out today in JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine link.springer.com/article/10.100… ACGME UW GME UW Medicine

New #MedEd Pub Alert 🚨 I’m *so* excited to share this Academic Medicine paper authored with @LekshmiMD on procedural education and precision curricula. Let’s discuss *finally* individualizing goals for procedural training! 🧵

Is your noon conference out of date? In this perspective by James Wykowski and team, hear from a group of chief residents and medical educators about principles for successful inpatient conference reform. buff.ly/47mASsQ #MedEd University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine

Very proud to see this project in print! We all need to be prepared to cope with the difficult events we encounter at work. Thankful to UW IM Chiefs, JGME for believing in this idea and proud to keep it moving forward! meridian.allenpress.com/jgme/article/1…

Debriefing is one effective tool for healthcare providers to process traumatic events they experience at work. Can a brief workshop improve senior residents’ confidence at leading team debriefs after difficult events? James Wykowski bit.ly/3V6o33E #MedEd

Self assessment is messy, but not going away any time soon. Learn from my mistakes in crafting the evaluation for your next teaching session! Thanks to JGIM Journal of General Internal Medicine for believing we could teach educators to write better evaluations link.springer.com/article/10.100…