Internal Medicine Career Tracks

Track Director(s): Christine Bryson, DO and Katie Jobbins, DO, MS

Track Description: The goal of the Humanities track is to introduce, gain deeper knowledge, and explore skills through a variety of activities that fall under the “humanities” umbrella in hopes to tap into physician fulfillment for our medicine and medicine/pediatric residents.

Learning Objectives: By the completion of the track learners will be able to:

1. Describe and perform a variety of activities that explore Humanities in medicine
2. Participate in a wide variety of activities related to Humanities opportunities
3. Cultivate a learning environment which supports the residents creating a publishable piece of work related to Humanities that can be distributed to the entire health systems.
4. Encourage each individual resident to submit a humanities scholarly project—essay, poem, photograph, etc. to a national publication.
5. Create a resource guide—where to publish, guidelines, and references

Requirements for Completion:

Mandatory

1. Participate in formal didactics at track meetings focused on topics ranging from analysis of on Op-Ed, narrative writing work-shop, application of Humanities to patient care, and how to write and prepare a humanities submission.
2. Participate in the group project of creating and publishing a Baystate Humanities Journal.
3. Provide regular ongoing updates on how residents are making use of Humanities topics at work and in their personal life.
4. Senior residents will then become editors of the Humanities Journal and open submissions to other outside our track.

Optional

• Participate in BERST Museum rounds or Graphic Medicine rounds
• Participate in REC day with a “Release Party” and possible presenting of works created

Monthly Meeting Topics:(subjects may change) Tuesday 4-5 pm

July:Introduction, set expectations, Give out materials for year, Survey – Discuss print vs blog

August: Narrative writing work-shop with prompt (Jobbins absent)

September: Op-Ed/ Blog discussion

October: Visual Art—Resiliency and Building back up exercise (Ute Schmidt guest)

November: Narrative writing Work-shop

December: Photography – finding beautify in the winter

January: Intro Story Slam/Med Moth—Guest Speaker Angela, Andrew Solomon Moth, Physician Mom – Boston story slam

February: Story Slam—Make a resident Pod Cast

March: Graphic medicine

April: Narrative writing workshop to work on Journal/Blog

May:  Finalize publication/ Post-survey

Faculty:

• Christine Bryson, DO
• Katie Jobbins, DO, MS
• Beth Eagleson, MD
• Rohini Harvey, MD
• Satoko Igarashi, MD
• Angela Sweeney, MEd, MA

Track Director: Riffat Sabir, MD

Track Description: The goal of the Medical Education Track is to provide a scaffolding of opportunities, knowledge, skills and attitudes to assist our medicine and medicine/pediatric residents to grow as medical educators.

Learning Objectives: By the completion of the track learners will be able to:

1. Describe and perform a variety of core medical education skills
2. Participate in a wide variety of medical education opportunities
3. Complete a scholarly project in medical education

Requirements for Completion:

Mandatory

1. Participate in the PURCH Resident/Fellow Educators Program (PREP)
   • Attend monthly core medical education topic meetings
   • Participate in at least 2 PREP sessions with students
2. Provide MSIII Internal Medicine Lectures
   • Provide at least 1 lecture per year and receive feedback
3. Participate in the PGY-2 Ultrasound Curriculum Training (if applicable)
4. Participate in the Academic Half Day Resident Leaders Program
5. Meet regularly with a medical education mentor
6. Complete a medical education scholarly project such as:
   • Design a new lecture
   • Design a new initiative
   • Write a review article
   • Design and implement a medical education project
   • Attend a national meeting and share what was learned
7. Two-week Medical Education Elective (if applicable)

Optional

• Participate in BERST- Trainee Track
• Participate in a BCEPT Session
• Attend NEGEA annual meeting

Monthly Meeting Topics: (subjects may change)

July: Introduction, set expectations

August: Teaching is not filling a bucket (Kevin Hinchey)

September: Teaching and reflection (Rebecca Blanchard)

October: Curriculum Development Cycle (Raquel Belforti)

November: TBD (Eric Churchill)

December: Innovations in Teaching (Angela Sweeney)

January: Teaching Clinical Reasoning (Harry Hoar)

February: Chalk Talks (Raquel Belforti)

March: TBD (Eric Churchill)

April: Bedside Teaching (Chris Lachance)

May: Mentorship (Raquel Belforti)

Faculty Track Directors: Ryan Quarles, MD (Hospital Medicine) and Jill McCormick (Director of Design and Innovation, Innovation Strategist)
Resident Track Director: Chrissy Kreider, MD

Track Description:
The Redesigning Healthcare Delivery Track is a one year experience for internal medicine an med peds residents to learn and actively participate in the design, implementation and critical appraisal of innovations within the health care system. We will utilize experiential learning to learn how to build a strong case for an innovative idea by examining the problem from multiple perspectives (patient, clinical, business, operations, process and tech), carefully mapping the process, and creating the burning bridge to rallying a team of stakeholders, leaders and passionate team members to effect change. The focus of the protected academic time will be allocated to experiential learning and work outside the track will be encouraged, but optional. Residents who have identified passionate problems will be mentored in defining the problem and project development.

Learning Objectives:
By the completion of the track learners will be able to:

1. Transcend the traditional clinical mind to analyze and define problems in health care.
2. Identify and interrogate various and unique data sources across the institution.
3. Exposure to human centered design and other innovation methodologies (i.e. empathetic interviewing, journey mapping, stakeholder analysis etc).
4. Capture the minds and hearts of stakeholders to build institutional support through various techniques (i.e. data visualization and patient experience stories).

Requirements for Completion:
Mandatory

1. Measurable participation in experiential learning.
2. Attendance at 50% of track meeting.

Optional

• Share and present passionate problems with the group, institutional leadership and possible publication.

Monthly Meeting Topics

 Monthly topics will be workshops and other experience immersion. (i.e. Take a “persona” and map their journey – what are the problems along the journey that need to be solved, what priority are these problems from various stakeholders perspective, what would it take to make change).

Track Director(s): Raquel Belforti, DO

Track Description: The Research Track is a special program for residents who wish to pursue a rigorous research program during residency. The overall goal of the research track is to encourage participation by anyone interested in learning and/or honing existing research skills and to foster their development throughout residency with skilled mentorship. The research track has allowed many of our residents to present their work at national meetings, to author peer-reviewed original research articles, and to compete for subspecialty fellowship slots.

Learning Objectives: By the completion of the track learners will be able to:

1. Design and conduct group research projects, culminating in presentation at a national meeting, followed by publication.
2. Discuss advanced didactic instruction on epidemiology, biostatistics and research design.
3. Receive mentorship in research and scholarship.

Requirements for Completion:

Mandatory

1. Participate in formal didactics at track meetings focused on topics ranging from the human subjects protection to specific research methods, as well as how to write an abstract and prepare a manuscript
2. Participate in a research project
3. Provide regular ongoing updates on protocols and completed studies to allow for feedback from mentors and track member peers
4. Senior research track members will mentor junior members

Optional

• Participate in a research elective

• An audit of oxygen supplementation in a large tertiary hospital - we should treat oxygen as any other drug