Scholarship

Training in scholastic preparation is integral to medical training, as we life long learners and educators. As part of your clinical training in our program, you will also be required to participate in academic exercises to help lay the foundation for your future as a peer and patient educator.  Our Journal Club Classics is a didactic peer education project that identifies the key articles shaping the standard of care in Internal Medicine. Residents are required to prepare PowerPoint presentations of an article review from one of the papers selected for Journal Club Classics on a rotating basis. Additionally, all residents must submit a scholarly work during the second and third year of training.  This may be a research abstract, the PowerPoint presentation of an oral presentation given at a local or national meeting, a published or submitted manuscript or a clinical vignette written up about an interesting case.  Our residents achieve significant success in these activities, including awards at local, state and national meetings. Residents who are invited to present at the ACP are supported by the Department of Medicine. All third year residents give a grand rounds style peer teaching didactic presentation to their peers and faculty as part of the hospital based noon conference curriculum.

Recent ACP Award Winning Presentations

  1. Wegener's or Not? Kathryn Lieber, M.D.
  2. Pustular Psoriasis Suppression by a Hyperfunctioning Adrenal Adenoma. Sasan Mirfakhraee, M.D.
  3. Treating a Familiar Rare Disease: A Case of Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Due to Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome. Ngan Nguyen, M.D.
  4. Scurvy: An Odd Case of Syncope and Anemia. Matthew Oman, M.D.
  5. An Unusual Etiology of Sepsis and Multiorgan Dysfunction Syndrome in a 39-Year-Old. Ryan Oyer, M.D.
  6. It's in the Skin, Wesley Thacker, M.D.
  7. Arthritis-Related Autoantibodies are Associated with Pulmonary Airway Abnormalities in Individual without Rheumatoid Arthritis. Kristen Demoruelle, M.D.
  8. Adherence to Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy Reduces the Risk of Death and Rehospitalization in Patients with Heart Failure. Ashley Fitzgerald, M.D.
  9. Sporadic Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia? Maria Frank, M.D.
  10. Pharmacologic Inhibition of Bile Acid Receptors as the Therapeutic Intervention in Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. Tibor Krisko, M.D.
  11. An Uncommon Outcome of Viral Myocarditis. Alexandra Smart, M.D.
  12. Noninvasive Assessment of Chronic Liver Disease: Correlations of Cholate Shunt with Hepatic Fibrosis and Varices in Patients with Hepatitis C. Michael Martucci, M.D.

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