Two Baystate Teams Are Awarded Innovations in Education Intramural Grants

Gladys Fernandez MD and Mihaela S. Stefan MD, and Sarah Perez McAdoo MD, MPH and Carrie Bell MD received 2007 Innovations in Education Intramural Grants.

The awardees address areas of curricular need noted in the Educational Strategic Plan, including innovative approaches to simulation-based training, strategies for enhancing multicultural competency, and the integration of basic science and clinical teaching programs. The awards support efforts to enhance educational programs not only for students at the Medical School but also for students at the Sackler School and those enrolled in the Masters of Public Health Program.

The six winners were selected from an outstanding pool of applicants.

Baystate Winners

• Gladys Fernandez, MD and Mihaela S. Stefan, MD
  From the Web to the Simulated Patient Room: Self Directed Web-Based Virtual Patients to Support and Enhance Simulation-based Training and to Assess Learning: An Adjunct to Curricular Innovation. The award is in the amount of $15,100.

• Sarah Perez McAdoo, MD, MPH and Carrie Bell, MD
  Community Health Curriculum in Reproductive Health Disparities and Cross Cultural Care in Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship. The award is in the amount of $10,000.

Other Winners

• Laura Liscum PhD, TUSM: Pathways to Science.

• Ruth Palombo PhD, TUSM: Preparing Tufts MPH Graduates for the Changing Nature of Public Health Practice.

• Henry Wortis MD, TUSM: Distance workshop: Genetic analysis of host resistance to infectious pathogens.

• Stanley Jacobson PhD, TUSM: The Tufts University Digital Human Anatomy Project.

Brief descriptions of the winning proposals and deadlines for next year's grant cycle will be posted on the Innovations Grant website.

Seven residents from Baystate's Internal Medicine Geriatrics Division presented posters at the national meeting of the American Geriatrics Society in Seattle in May.

• M Dunn, R Shaaban, R Odulio, S Bellantonio.*
  Respecting sexuality in older adults.

• R Shaaban, G Braden, M Rosenblum, M Brennan.*
  Pulmonary-renal syndrome from Sjogren’s syndrome and type III cryoglobulinemia.

• E Kehoe, M Rothberg, T Kenosi, M Brennan, P Pekow, R Wong, J Mulhern.*
  Usefulness of serum creatinine for detecting renal insufficiency in elderly outpatients.

• E Kehoe, M Rothberg, T Kenosi, M Brennan, P Pekow, R Wong, J Mulhern.*
  Usefulness of serum creatinine for detecting renal insufficiency in elderly outpatients. —1st  Place in Research Competition at Residents’ Poster Session.

• D Chandrasekeran, S Natanasabapathy.*
  Gout: A missed diagnosis in the elderly.—1st  Place in the Residents’ Poster Session Clinical Vignette Competition.

• S Kommana, T Mulligan, V Kodali, L Rockwell, R Steingart.*
  Spontaneous tumor lysis causing acute renal failure in a patient with myelofibrosis.—3rd Place in the Clinical Vignette Competition at the Residents’ Poster Session.

• M Wall, M Brennan, M Rosenblum.
  Acute cholecystitis in elders: the role of early surgical intervention.—Won 2nd Place in the Clinical Vignette Competition at the Residents’ Poster Session.

Posters Presented in the General or Resident Poster Sessions

• S Behroozi, S Bellantonio, M Brennan.*
  Baclofen withdrawal resulting in seizures and intubation.
• D Chandrasekeran, S Natanasabapathy.*
  Atypical presentation of volvulus in octogenarian.
• R Cader, A Vaziri, M Brennan, R Odulio, S Bellantonio.*
  Class III CHF presenting as a geriatric syndrome.
• M Irizarry-Acosta, R Odulio, M Stefan, M Brennan.
  Prolonged aystole during electroconvulsive therapy (ECT): a case report.

* Abstracts of these posters were published in the April 2007 supplement of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Baystate residents Melina Irizarry, Rukshana Cader, Reham Shaaban, Sandhya Kommana, Michal Sarah Wall and Eileen Kehoe, and interns Tara DuVal and Gina Luciano, helped to pilot AGS's new mentoring program.

As part of a national resident recruitment initiative headed by Dr. Maura Brennan, a review of the recent literature was presented in "Jeopardy" format at the final plenary session. Baystate residents Deepa Chandrasekeran, Eileen Kehoe, Melina Irizarry, Sandhya Kommana and Michal Sarah Wall comprised more than a third of all residents competing in the four teams of housestaff. Interns interns Tara DuVal and Gina Luciano were also on the "Jeopardy" teams. Dr. Sandra Bellantonio was faculty for the plenary session and presented an

update on residency recruitment efforts at the annual meeting of the Association of Program Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs (ADGAP).

ACGME Collection of the Stories of 20 Chief Residents is Available in the Health Sciences Library

"Journey to Authenticity: Voices of Chief Residents" consists of frank, in-depth interviews with chief residents across the country who speak about their excitement and anxiety on the first days of the residencies, memorable patients, personal changes, and professional growth. Students, current residents and fellows, and those who have lived through residencies and fellowships will find the book of interest. Each of our stories is unique, but a common thread is that residency is not simply about learning the skills of medicine. It is also a “journey to authenticity—a journey in which physicians discover both clinical wisdom and themselves.”

Faculty Publications Database

Baystate Faculty Can Add, Review and Update Information About Their Scholarly Activity At Any Time

An important measure of the research and scholarly activity at Baystate Medical Center is the volume of our faculty's publications and presentations. To accurately quantitate this information, we have established an online Baystate Medical Center Scholarly Publications Database (http://www.scholarlypubs.org) that is available to everyone at Baystate. To establish the historic baseline, we have attempted to identify all faculty publications and scientific presentations for the past two academic years (which run July-June). There were 97 peer-reviewed publications for 2004-05, and 137 peer-reviewed publications for 2005-06.

All scholarly publications including 1) peer-reviewed publications, 2) non-peer reviewed publications, 3) book chapters, 4) books, and 5) abstracts, as well as 6) scholarly presentations are eligible for inclusion in the database.

Health Sciences Library Monitors and Validates Database Entries

On an ongoing basis, Health Sciences Library staff identifies faculty publications and presentations, such as those listed here in the monthly Academics@Baystate newsletter, and enters them into the database.

Individual faculty should regularly review the database to make sure their publications and presentations are complete. At any time, faculty can use the online data entry form to add themselves as an author if they are not currently in the database, or add their new or missing publications or presentations. The library staff reviews and validates all author and publication information for accuracy before it becomes part of the permanent database.

Each Department receives a draft version of its faculty's publication data in early July each year to use in preparing the Department Annual Report for the preceding academic year. Faculty and Departments can run a number of useful reports from the database using the report generator. This capability should greatly facilitate preparing the Department Annual Reports and the institution Academic Annual Reports and reduce the duplicate requests for this information from faculty.

If you have any suggestions or comments on this new database, please send your ideas and comments to Hal Jenson.
For future reference, these Scholarly Publications database links are listed on the Academic Affairs intranet site which also includes a growing index of education and research links at Baystate.