From the Leadership Team
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
GIM's where it's at,
all thanks to you.
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GIM Proud
Please join me in a round of applause for Dr. Amos Bailey, the 2020 recipient of the Project on Death in America (PDIA) Palliative Medicine National Leadership Award. You can watch the presentation of the award and Dr. Bailey's acceptance speech here. What a well deserved honor.
We are so pleased to announce that Dr. Jeanie Youngwerth has been elected UCHealth Medical Staff President-Elect for 2021-2022. We know Dr. Youngwerth will be an exceptional president!
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GIM Team
Congratulations to Allison Page, NP, who was recently selected as the new GIM Primary Care APP Lead.
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Things You Need to Know
The PRIDE Summer Institute Program, Programs to Increase Diversity Among Individuals Engaged in Health-Related Research, is now accepting applications. For more information and to apply visit the PRIDE website here.
The Teaching Scholars Program is now accepting applications through March 11. The 18-month program is designed to enhance knowledge and skills and develop future leaders in medical/healthcare education. For more information and the application form visit their website here.
Friendly reminder to all University Staff and 12-month Faculty about vacation leave carryover limits. Faculty and Staff can carry up to 352 hours (44 days) of vacation from one fiscal year into the next. Anyone with a balance over 352 hours will lose excess hours during the annual leave sweep after July payroll. If you have excess leave, please work with your supervisor and/or clinic medical director to take your time off. You can find your leave balance in your employee portal under My Info and Pay.
Click here to find valuable COVID-19 websites.
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Dr. Rich Altman, Dr. CT Lin, and colleagues recently published an article in Applied Clinical Informatics. The article, Ambulatory Clinician's Guide to Inpatient Service: An Innovative Rapid Onboarding Strategy for the COVID-19 Pandemic, describes the process the team used to "quickly prepare ambulatory-based clinicians to care for hospitalized patients using the inpatient workflow of the electronic health record (EHR)." You can find the full text article here.
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Shout-out to Dr. Amos Bailey who's poster, Improving Provider Training for Implementing a Comfort Care Order Set in Veterans Affairs Medical Centers (VAMC): Palliative Care Consult Team Members' Perspectives, is the winner of the best poster in the educational research category for the upcoming Annual Assembly of Hospice and Palliative Care.
Congratulations to the Primary Care Track residents who have been selected by faculty and colleagues as Chief Residents for the Internal Medicine Residency Program, AY21-22: Kathryn Guinn and AY22-23: Cara Saxon and Emily Scott. We are proud that they can represent GIM in their leadership roles.
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