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It's commencement eve for Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine's Class of 2024! Wonder where the graduates are heading for residency after tomorrow's big day? Revisit the OUWB Match Day 2024 story below that includes the complete list!

Join us at Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital - Plano, every Wednesday from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm for the Weekly ECHO Conference, a dynamic platform for cardiovascular education and collaboration. Gain insights into echo-related didactic lectures and cutting-edge case presentations, incorporating recent research, care controversies, and practical applications. Explore emerging diagnostic, therapeutic, and interventional techniques, as well as cardiovascular complications and their impact on patient care. These weekly lectures are open to physicians, surgeons, mid-level practitioners, nurses, researchers and more interested in cardiovascular health. The learning objectives of the conference include, but are not limited to: - Foster multidisciplinary collaboration in medical education - Enhance patient care safety and quality - Translate research into clinical practice effectively - Promote patient centered , team-based strategies - Analyze and compare patient outcomes for informed treatment decisions. To learn more visit the link below! https://lnkd.in/gsKgVBiH

Tada!! The newest National Medical Fellowships, Inc.alumni feature is out!!! Learn more about Dr. Ericka Scott Change Agent by reading below, “You Cannot Be What You Cannot See”. Dr. Ericka Scott shares why she believes mentorship is most important to moving the needle of diversity in medicine.

Next Thursday (25 January) Karolien Baldewijns will defend the thesis ‘From guideline to practise: The organisation of multidisciplinary heart failure care in three European regions’ at 10.00h @ @MaastrichtUniversity. ➡️ Heart failure is a common, chronic and debilitating condition. To reduce the impact of heart failure, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) has developed guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. This thesis examines the application of these guidelines in three European regions; Maastricht (Netherlands), Noorderkempen (Belgium) and Aachen (Germany). More specifically, it focuses on how the guidelines related to multidisciplinary care and patient education are applied and used. The overall aim of this thesis is therefore to gain a better understanding of the current organisation and regulation of heart failure care in these three regions. First, the current processes of heart failure care were explored. After which, the local implementation of European guidelines regarding multidisciplinary care and patient education was examined. Next, the extent to which national training programmes for heart failure nurses correspond to the European training programme was examined. Finally, patient education as experienced by different professionals was mapped. Supervisor: Prof. Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca Co-supervisors: Dr JJJ Boyne Dr A Devillé (Thomas More University of Applied Sciences) #carimmaastricht #maastrichtuniversity #phdlife #phddefence 📺 https://lnkd.in/eN8TK8JF 📖 https://lnkd.in/eQySBwnd

Learn more about UGA's new School of Medicine from a Q&A with Dean Shelley Nuss!

Tune in tomorrow for the joint webinar with #SCAIWIN and the American College of Cardiology Medical Student Leadership team. Get your IC career questions answered by our expert female panel and gain insight on professional development in the field. ➡️Register now: https://lnkd.in/gBMmvrzi

🏥 This Week in Med School 📚 I wrapped up the first month of the Medicine clerkship where I spent it at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. This Monday I transition back to main Hopkins Hospital to be part of the Osler service, named after one of the four founders of Hopkins Medicine, Sir William Osler. Here are three of the salient takeaways from this past week: 1. *Be proactive with your health.* While the hospital is full of amazing life-saving interventions and caring providers, do whatever you can to keep yourself and your loved ones out of it. From the potential of nosocomial infections (e.g. hospital-acquired pneumonia, C. difficile) to iatrogenic issues (e.g. anemia from blood-draws), it's much better to be proactive with your health and reduce the chances of needing to be in a hospital, or if that can't be prevented to be able to recover faster. Check out Peter Attia's wonderful book, "Outlive," to learn more about Medicine 3.0 and how to prevent as much need for healthcare as you can. 2. *High-Value Medicine.* We had an excellent, engaging sessions with the Dean of the School of Medicine, Dr. Roy Ziegelstein, that brought to life the importance of practicing evidence-based and high-value medicine for both the individual patient (to avoid over-testing and medical error) and for the collective (to reduce healthcare costs and unnecessary utilization). We went into areas that aren't spoken about enough such as likelihood ratios from certain diagnostic tests and pre- and post-test probabilities. Will share a link to the overall topic in the description. 3. *7 H's and 5 T's Mnemonic.* These are ways to remember the reversible causes of asystole, pulseless electrical activity, ventricular fibrillation, and ventricular tachycardia: Hypovolemia, Hypoxia, Hydrogen ion excess (acidosis), Hypoglycemia, Hypokalemia, Hyperkalemia, Hypothermia, Tension pneumothorax, Tamponade – Cardiac, Toxins, Thrombosis (pulmonary embolus), Thrombosis (myocardial infarction). Thanks for listening and see you next week!

Our inaugural class! 50 people who are about to learn & (per regulations, of course) practice medicine… in other words, change the world via a whole-person approach to healthcare.

My latest post for AMA!

🏥 This Week in Med School 📚 Welcome back to another video log ("vlog") for TWIMS. I started the Medicine clerkship this week and we hit the ground running with three days of intense knowledge and practice review, from reading EKGs and chest x-rays to interviewing patients and writing SOAP notes. Here are three learnings and reflections (out of 100s) this week: 1. *Patient interviewing strategy.* I loved Dr. Bruce Leff's analogy to playing tennis when interviewing patients. Rather than doing a fast-paced back-and-forth rally of close-ended questions, it's helpful to do a series of slower and deliberate "lobs" that (a) allow the patient to be as comprehensive as possible, (b) build rapport, and (c) buy you time to think about the differential diagnosis and subsequent questions, exam maneuvers, and workup. 2. *Acid-Base Disturbances.* In medical school we spend a lot of time learning about the renal and pulmonary systems which are key regulators of our acid-base balance. Metabolic and/or respiratory acidosis and alkalosis can be deadly, and so a lot of time is spent learning how to identify and treat them. We had a wonderful practice-based teaching session by Dr. Manny Monroy-Trujillo whose passion for teaching was clear (hopefully he uploads some videos to YouTube so others can learn from him too). For now, for those studying for various exams, one oft-cited mnemonic for anion gap metabolic acidosis is MUDPILES (Osmosis.org from Elsevier infographic and video in the comments). 3. *Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy (GDMT) for Heart Failure.* Another excellent teaching session was led by Dr. Ty Sweeney, a resident at Hopkins Bayview, who introduced us to the life-saving GDMT drug cocktail that has been shown to reduce 2-year mortality of patients with Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF) from >30% to <10%. If you know someone who has this condition it's worth ensuring they have heard about it and speak with their healthcare providers about it. That's it for now, and as always please feel free to get in touch with me if you have any comments or ideas. Have a great weekend!