Transitional Year - Highlights
Resident Board Pass Rate 99.5% on ABIM Exam over Nine Consecutive Years
Over the past nine years 192/193 (99.5%) residents have passed the ABIM on their first attempt. Congratulations! The Department continues to provide our residents with our own Department of Medicine, faculty led, intensive board review course.
New Resident Work Schedules Ensure 100% Duty Hour Compliance
The Department of Medicine has instituted a complete night-float system on all rotations. Residents on-call will work until 9pm when they will be relieved by a well-rested night-float tream. Call is never more frequent than every fourth or fifth day. Residents are trained in appropriate signing out of patients which helps the hand-off process. The Department is already compliant with the 2011 new proposed ACGME Duty Hour Standards.
Einstein Residents Accepted Into Outstanding Fellowship Programs Again
Twenty-four outstanding fellowship positions were obtained by our residents this academic year. This has been one of our most successful years with respect to number and quality of fellowship appointments. Our residents continue to be accepted into a variety of subspecialty training programs throughout the country. Great job!
Einstein Fellowship News – Endocrinology Approved
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announced the addition of a fellowship in Endocrinology to complement our other fellowship training programs. The Department currently sponsors fellowship ACGME programs in cardiovascular disease, infectious diseases, interventional cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, nephrology, pulmonary/critical care medicine, and rheumatology. The cardiology fellowship program has expanded to five fellows per year. Our gastroenterology and nephrology programs recently expanded to three fellows per year. Heart failure, hepatology and transplant nephrology fellowships are also available.
Internal Medicine Residency Receives an Additional Year (Six Year Cycle) of Full Accreditation from ACGME
The Einstein Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency has received the maximum cycle length from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RRC-IM) on the last two site visits. In addition, the program has not received a single citation.
A Record Year For Resident Scholarly Activity
Einstein residents first authored numerous abstracts, posters and oral presentations this academic year. In addition, many Einstein residents were either first authors or co-authors on many papers published this academic year.
Einstein Residents Participate in 2010 Annual American College of Physicians Annual Associate Poster Competition
Nine projects (listed below) were presented at the 2010 ACP Associates Competition in Toronto. This is an incredible accomplishment for our residents since few of the many projects submitted are accepted for this very prestigious competition.
- Incidence of hypertension in high risk groups of sleep disordered breathing: Can sleep disordered breathing be an independent risk factor for hypertension? Selected for podium presentation and was one of only ten Research abstracts selected as winners in the 2010 National Associates Competition
- Comparison of Enhanced External Counter Pulsation outcomes in refractory angina patients with and without atrial fibrillation
- Statin use may reduce the occurrence of venous thromboembolism. A study in patients with artherosclerotic disease
- Inhibitory effect of cigarette smoke on adiponectin expression in vitro and in vivo
- Broken Heart and Cold foot: A Rare Case of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy Presenting with Distal Embolism
- Chloroma: A hip fracture turned malignant
- Unanticipated consequence of a roller coaster ride
- An Unusual Presentation of Panhypopituitarism
- Castleman Disease presenting as fever and cough in a young male
Einstein Residents Participate in 2009 Annual American College of Physicians Annual Associate Poster Competition
Seven projects (listed below) were presented at the 2009 ACP Associates Competition in Philadelphia.
- Can Lipophilic Statins Affect Her2/neu Expression in Breast Cancer? [Selected for podium presentation and was one of only ten Research abstracts selected as winners in the 2009 National Associates Competition]
- Modifiable factors that influence Colorectal Cancer Lymph Nodes Sampling and Examination
- The Association of Insulin Resistance and Cancer among Adult Participants aged 40 years and older in NHANES III
- Make it Happen: A resident led campaign to improve hand hygiene and contract precautions among Internal Medicine Residents. A Pilot Program developed by the Resident Task Force for preventing Hospital Acquired Infections
- Aquaporin 5 (AQP5), a Novel Target for Cancer Therapy, is Expressed in Primary Human Leukemic Cells
- Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome. New onset seizures in a patient with lupus nephritis and recent immunosuppressive treatment
- Ovarian vein thrombosis in a patient with asymptomatic chorioamnionitis
Night Time In-Hospital Chief Resident Coverage Continues
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce that each academic year, six chief residents will be selected to serve the program at the PGY-4 level. The chief residents are vital members of the Department as they have administrative, educational and important clinical roles. Two of the chief residents will serve as night chief residents. The night chief residents will have a variety of responsibilities which will include teaching, supervision and administrative oversight while be present in the hospital every night.
All Lectures Now Recorded and Available Online for Review
All of our lectures are being audio recorded to accompany the electronic slide sets. Lectures are available on the Einstein intranet and can be reviewed at any time. Residents now have the ability to listen and watch lectures that they may have missed or want to hear and review again.
New Innovations
Beginning in the 2007-2008 academic year, Albert Einstein began to use New Innovations Residency Management Software Suite. New Innovations is a web-based system that tracks all aspects of graduate medical education. The program assists all Einstein Residency and Fellowship programs with tasks such as procedure logging, evaluation and evaluation tracking, scheduling, monitoring of conference attendance, duty hour tracking and general personnel data tracking.
Liver Transplantation, Palliative Care and Rapid Response Team Added to Resident Curriculum
Residents now have an opportunity to care for patients that have undergone orthotopic liver transplantation. Residents will gain experience in managing complex patient care issues. The curriculum will include an understanding of immunosuppression, infections in the immunocompromised host, organ rejection as well as other problems that may be seen in this unique patient population.
A new elective in Palliative Care has been added to the internal medicine curriculum. Residents will work directly with experts in Palliative Care and have an opportunity to develop the skills needed to assist patients in this important area of care.
Residents will have an opportunity to participate in the Einstein Rapid Response Initiative. This multidisciplinary team is available to provide immediate care to any patient in need. Residents will participate in a variety of training modules. Residents will learn how to work closely with other health care professionals to quickly assess, treat and triage a variety of clinical situations.
Associate Program Director Appointed
We are pleased to announce the selection of Dr. Matt Behme to Associate Program Director. Dr. Behme is a graduate of UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson. He completed internal medicine residency training at Einstein. Dr. Behme will oversee ambulatory education and joins Drs. Richard Allman, Nina Mingioni and Philip O. Katz who continue to serve as Associate Program Directors.
Expansion of Non-teaching Service
The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the expansion of the non-teaching service. This service is now staffed with physician assistants and nurse practitioners. Our full-time hospitalist group provides supervision. The expansion of this service has allowed the number of patients cared for by the residents to remain optimal and not overwhelming.
Einstein Residents Win American College of Physicians' 2007 Doctor's Dilemma Contest
Residents representing Einstein Healthcare Network defeated 29 teams from around the nation in the Jeopardy competition on medical knowledge sponsored by the American College of Physicians (ACP). The Osler trophy was presented to the winners at the annual meeting of the American College of Physicians in San Diego. Each team member also received an individual certificate. Residents and medical students from across the United States compete for title of national champion. Organized in the format of the Jeopardy television game show, the competition includes questions that span various aspects of medicine including medical calculations, unusual diseases and medical history. The Einstein teams defeated six local hospitals, including Abington, Drexel, Jefferson, Hahnemann, Fitzgerald Mercy and Temple for the right to represent eastern Pennsylvania. Coached by chief medical resident, Janani Rangaswami, MD, the team then triumphed over two other Pennsylvania regional teams. This achievement earned the team the opportunity to represent Pennsylvania at the national competition in the Spring. Einstein residents have won this national competition two additional times in the past.
Einstein Residents Accepted Into Outstanding Fellowship Programs Again
Twenty-four outstanding fellowship positions were obtained by our residents this academic year. This has been one of our most successful years with respect to number and quality of fellowship appointments. Our residents continue to be accepted into a variety of subspecialty training programs throughout the country. Great job!