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SGIM E-News August 14, 2013

By GIM Connect posted 08-14-2013 12:09

  

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August 14, 2013

MORE THAN 30 SPECIALTY SOCIETIES TO RELEASE NEWCHOOSING WISELY LISTS OF TESTS OR TREATMENTS TO QUESTION

Physician organizations identify more than 150 potentially unnecessary medical tests and treatments commonly performed in U.S. to be released as latest installment of Choosing Wisely® campaign

In late 2013 and early 2014, leading medical specialty societies will release more than 30 new lists of specific tests or procedures they say are commonly ordered but not always necessary and could cause harm as part of the Choosing Wisely campaign, the ABIM Foundation announced today.

The new lists continue the Choosing Wisely campaign, which brings together national physician groups to develop evidence-based lists of five tests and procedures that may be overused in their specific field. First launched in April 2012, this marks the third wave of lists released as part of the Choosing Wisely effort. These new lists build on the library of more than 130 tests and procedures that have been identified as potentially harmful and should be discussed with patients and physicians. To date, 54 societies and 17 consumer groups have joined the Choosing Wisely effort.


SGIM plans to release its Choosing Wisely list on September 12, 2013 at the Midwest regional meeting in Chicago. Stay tuned for more information soon.

News from the Regions

MIDWEST

Hope you are finalizing your plans to join us, Midwest SGIM! The 2013 Midwest SGIM Regional Meeting will be held on September 12-13, 2013 at the Navy Pier in Chicago, IL. This year's theme is "Accountable Care: Linking Research and Education to Clinical Practice" and our Keynote Speaker is Dr. Anne G. Pereira, Director of Graduate Medical Education at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Midwest SGIM, the deadline for submissions is now closed. If you submitted to the meeting, acceptance and non-acceptance notifications are set to go out on Wednesday, July 31st to the Corresponding Author of the submission. RSVP for your presentations are due mid-to-late August.

The Midwest Leadership Board is seeking nominations for President-Elect for the upcoming 2013-2014 year. The nomination deadline is Wednesday, August 14th, with online voting occurring between August 16th - August 28th. For more information, please see the 2013 Call for Leadership Nominations letter on our website at www.sgim.org/go/midwest.

We want to award the "Best of the Midwest"! The Call for Award Nominations is now underway. Awards for Clinician-Educator, Advocacy and Community Service, and Leader in GIM are being offered. Deadline for award nominations is Wednesday, August 14th. Instructions for online nomination and further information can be found in the 2013 Call for Awards Nominations link at www.sgim.org/go/midwest.

Registration is now open, Midwest SGIM! Navy Pier's Festival Hall in Chicago, IL will again host the Midwest SGIM Regional Meeting over the dates of September 12-13, 2013. Registration deadline is Wednesday, September 4th, 2013. Please see the "Registration" page of our regional website for more information on how to register for the meeting.

Planning your travel and stay in Chicago for the Midwest SGIM regional meeting? Our host hotel for lodging is the W Hotel Chicago-Lakeshore, which is the closest hotel to our meeting venue. Reservation deadline has been extended to Friday, August 23rd at 5:00 pm CST through the W Hotel's reservation system. For further information on reservations and directions, please see the "Hotel and Travel" page on the Midwest regional website.

MOUNTAIN WEST

Save the date, Mountain West SGIM! The 2013 Mountain West Regional Meeting will be held on Friday, October 25, 2013 at the Anschutz Medical Campus at University of Colorado in Denver, CO. This year's theme is "Wellness: Improving Quality of Life for Our Patients and Ourselves" and our Keynote Speaker is Dr. Colin P. West, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. More details to follow in the coming weeks, including Registration and Hotel/Travel information.

Call for Workshop, Abstract, Vignette, and Innovation Submissions are now open! Deadline to submit has been extended to Friday, August 23rd at 10:00 pm MT. Please visit the Mountain West region's "Call for Submissions" page of our website at for further information.

Calling all volunteers! The Mountain West SGIM Planning Committee is seeking volunteer reviewers for Workshop, Abstract, Innovation and Vignette review committees. If you are interested in helping with this year's meeting and are a current Mountain West SGIM member, please email Danielle Josef, SGIM Regional Coordinator, at JosefD@sgim.org no later than Friday, August 16th and make sure specify which committee you are interested in reviewing for. Time commitment for reviewing is any time between August 26th and September 3rd.

CALIFORNIA-HAWAII

Save the date, California-Hawaii SGIM! The 2014 SGIM Regional Meeting is currently scheduled for Friday, January 31st, 2014 at Stanford University's Li Ka Shing Center in Palo Alto, CA. This year's theme is "Innovation in General Internal Medicine - Creating A Better Future for Health Care" and our Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Abraham Verghese, Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine at Stanford and Senior Associate Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. More details to follow in the coming weeks, including Registration and Travel information.

Call for Workshop, Abstract, Vignette, and Innovation Submissions are now open! Deadline to submit is Friday, October 4th at 9:00 pm PT. Please visit the California-Hawaii region's "Call for Submissions" page of our website at for further information.

NORTHWEST
Save the date, Northwest SGIM! The 2014 Northwest Regional Meeting will be held on Friday, February 7, 2014 in Seattle, WA. More details to follow in the coming weeks.

SOUTHERN
Save the date, Southern SGIM! The 2014 Southern SGIM Regional Meeting is currently scheduled for February 20-22. 2014 in New Orleans, LA. More details to follow in the coming weeks, including the Call for Submissions and Registration information.


MID-ATLANTIC

Save the date, Mid-Atlantic SGIM! The 2014 Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting will be held on Friday, March 14, 2014 at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, NY. More details to follow in the coming weeks.


NEW ENGLAND

Save the date, New England SGIM! The 2014 New England Regional Meeting will be held on Friday, March 7, 2014 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center located on the Harvard University campus in Boston, MA. More details to follow in the coming weeks.

Sincerely,


Francine Jetton

Society of General Internal Medicine

2014 TEACH Certificate Program

Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 TEACH Certificate Program. Improve your teaching credentials with TEACH-a longitudinal faculty development program developed by SGIM's Education Committee. For details and to apply, visit www.sgim.org/go/TEACH

Increased Impact Factor!

Congratulations to the editors, reviewers and authors of Journal of General Internal Medicine on achieving a 2012 Impact Factor of 3.278. Want to be part of the success? Find instructions on submitting your research on the journal homepage.

SGIM Members in the News

SGIM Member L. Ebony Boulware, MD, MPH, has been named the chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, within the Dept. of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine, effective September 25. Currently, Dr. Boulware is associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and associate professor of epidemiology and of health behavior and society at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Read the full release here.

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