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We are looking forward to 2015...
Renew your membership today!
The 2015 membership renewal period is now open!
Renew your membership and update your membership profile today!
Upon logging in, please take a few moments to update your membership profile. Member profile information allows SGIM to understand your role in GIM and better serve as your "professional home." We strive to ensure that you receive information that may be of interest to you, build communities for those interested in similar issues, and improve search functions of the membership directory.Your membership makes a difference and we value your contribution to improve patient care, education and research!
Questions about your membership? Contact Jillian Gann, Director of Membership.
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Annual Meeting
Submission Reviewers Needed
Want to help make the annual meeting the best ever?
Volunteer to review submissions!Have some time between January 13-27? Have internet access?
All members are welcome to review! Click here,fill out the form and fax it in.
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JGIM Twitter Journal Club- October 30
The next JGIM Twitter Journal Club will be this Thursday, October 30, at 9:00 pm (EST). All SGIM members are invited to participate. This is a discussion on Twitter of a recent article published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. We will use the medical education hashtag (#meded) for this event. Instructions are posted here.
We will be discussing this paper:
Frontline Account: Targeting Hot Spotters in an Internal Medicine Residency Clinic
Melissa Dattalo , Stephanie Nothelle , Sean Tackett , Marc Larochelle , Fernanda Porto-Carreiro , Eunice Yu & Laura A. Hanyok. J Gen Intern Med 29(9):1305-7.
Please join the authors, the JGIM editorial staff, and your colleagues around the world for a lively chat about this study and its implications for clinical practice and medical education.
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American College of Physicians Expresses Concern About Mandatory Quarantines of Clinicians Involved in Care of Ebola Patients
The ACP released a statement yesterday expressing concern about mandatory quarantines of clinicians involved in the care of Ebola patients."The American College of Physicians is strongly concerned about the approach being taken by some state health departments to impose strict, mandatory quarantines for all physicians, nurses, and other health professionals returning from West Africa, regardless of whether they are showing symptoms of Ebola virus infection."
For more information, read the full press release here.
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AHRQ Effective Healthcare Program
In support of the growing use of evidence in shared decision making between clinicians and patients, AHRQ released a new streaming video and monograph on the effects of using targeted screening strategies for Hepatitis C infection. We hope you will find these new resources of interest and share them with your members.
Current topics include:
Screening for Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Adults
- Resources include: the full research review; patient summary; clinician summary; CME/CE activity; and
faculty slide set.
Pleasevisit theEHC Inside Track, theEffective Health Care Program's newsletter,for more information about these and other new health information products for patients and clinicians, and to subscribe for regular updates.
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Sincerely,
Francine Jetton
Society of General Internal Medicine
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ATTENTION MEMBERS!
SGIM is seeking your feedback in the 2014 SGIM Membership Survey.All members have been sent an email with directions to complete this 15-20 minute survey. Complete the survey and enter a raffle for 2015 membership OR 2015 annual meeting registration!
If you have not yet received the survey email, please contact Jillian Gann at gannj@sgim.org. We appreciate your honest feedback and your continued dedication to GIM!
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CALL FOR UPTODATE REVIEWERS
SGIM is looking for additional SGIM members to review a series of educational materials from Up to Date Inc. UpToDate is an evidence based, peer reviewed information resource that includes a synthesis of literature, the latest evidence, and specific recommendations for patient care. Reviewers evaluate educational materials designed to inform patients and may be selected for one or more modules during the year. Eligible candidates should be practicing clinicians--please forward a CV to Leslie Dunne at dunnel@sgim.org
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GIM FELLOWSHIP DIRECTORS!
SGIM is launching its third year of the "Investing in GIM" membership program in its effort to engage the next generation of academic GIM professionals. This program offers one year of complimentary membership to first year GIM fellows. If you are a Fellowship Director (or first year fellow) and would like to learn more about this program, please contact Jillian Gann, Director of Membership at gannj@sgim.org.
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SGIM Members in the News
On Thursday, October 23rd, Dr. Karen DeSalvo was asked by Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to become Acting Assistant Secretary of Health (ASH) to serve the country on public health matters, especially the Department's Ebola response efforts.
As a key part of her role and the overall strategy on the HHS Ebola response, she will join the team of trusted experts, reaching out to healthcare providers, other stakeholders and the American public to help implement our preparedness and education efforts.
Dr. DeSalvo's experience as a practicing physician, a senior member of the HHS team, and as a nationally-recognized leader in public health, will be invaluable to the Department and Secretary Burwell.For more information visit this link.Congrats Karen!
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