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JGIM Unveils New Website at www.jgim.org
The Society's flagship journal, the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM) has recently unveiled its brand new website. Located at www.jgim.org,the website is chock full of interesting new features and online-only material.Check out these cool new features:
- JGIM Print- see abstracts and share them on favorite social network, also search for article by keyword and author
- JGIM Web Only-
- Clinical Images - includes brief history and poll - compare your answer to others
- Medical Humanities - "The Living Hand" - poetry and prose submitted by medical students and residents -
- Bottom Line Summaries - PDFs of the summaries on relevant topics - created by SGIM Evidence Based Medicine task force. These are one page summaries that can be printed out and shared with patients.
- From the Web Editor's Desk -short posts on timely topics or introducing various articles in the web-only area. Check out the posts on "Value-based care" which has two animated videos and a poll.
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SGIM 37th Annual Meeting
April 23-26, 2014,
San Diego, CA
Call for Workshops, Updates and Interest Groups has been mailed. If you did not receive your copy, email info@sgim.org to request another copy be mailed to you. Consider having it mailed to your home address instead of an institutional address.Submission Deadline is October 9, 2013.
Submissions and reviews are done through the ScholarOne website. Email reminders with login information (User Name and Password) have been sent. That email would have been sent to the email address carried over in ScholarOne from last year. If your email address changed you may not have received the information you need. Just send an email to info@sgim.org and we will send the information you need to login to ScholarOne.
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Call For Reviewers
SGIM is looking for members to review a series of educational materials from Up to Date Inc. UpToDate is an evidence based, peer reviewed information resource that writes topic reviews including a synthesis of literature, the latest evidence, and specific recommendations for patient care. Eligible candidates should be practicing clinicians. Reviewers may be selected for one or more modules during the next year. Reviewers will be asked to evaluate educational materials designed to inform patients of the most trusted, unbiased medical information available. Interested candidates please forward a CV to Leslie Dunne at dunnel@sgim.org.
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Funding Opportunities
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Patient Care Program is pleased to announce an exciting funding opportunity for the field of patient and family engagement. On October 1st, the foundation will be issuing a call for letters of intent for their Patient and Family Engagement Early Career Investigator awards.
The Patient Care Program aims to eliminate preventable harms and unnecessary costs by meaningfully engaging patients and families in their own healthcare within a redesigned, supportive healthcare system. Recipients of the Patient and Family Engagement Early Career Investigator awards will be conducting work that has the potential to demonstrate the value, remove roadblocks and enable accelerants in the field of patient and family engagement.
The call for letters of intent for the Patient and Family Engagement Early Career Investigator awards and additional information will be available on the foundation's website at moore.orgon October 1, 2013. Applicants for the award will be within 5 years of their first faculty appointment or equivalent (if employed at a private research institute or similar organization) at the time of submission. Letters of intent will be due to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation on October 31, 2013.
For questions about the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Patient Care Program Early Career Investigator Awards, please contact Susan Baade, MPH, at sbaade@moore.org.
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Save 15% on your next job posting!
Have a position that needs to be filled?Save 15% on your next job posting on theSGIM Career Center. Simply post a 30 or 60 day job opportunity on the National Health Care Network under the Academic, Research, Executive, Physician or Surgeon category and use the code BACKTOSCHOOL to save 15%.
EmailFrancine Jettonif you have any questions.This code is good through September 30, 2013.
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Sincerely,
Francine Jetton
Society of General Internal Medicine
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SGIM Releases Choosing Wisely List
The Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) released today a list of specific tests or procedures that are commonly ordered but not always necessary in general internal medicine as part of the Choosing Wisely® campaign, an initiative of the ABIM Foundation. The list identifies five targeted, evidence-based recommendations that can support conversations between patients and physicians about what care is really necessary. Read the press release and the full list of recommendations hereon the SGIM website.
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Apply today for the 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. Deadline Nov 15th. For details and to apply, visit www.sgim.org/go/TEACH
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SGIM Mobile App Update:
The mobile app for GIM Connect has been updated in the app store. The next time you log into your phone or tablet, be sure to update MemberCentric. Updates include:
* Push notifications will let you know when you have unread messages, contact requests, community invitations and direct messages
* View, accept, decline community invitations from the application
* Send and receive contact requests directly from the application
* Compose, reply, forward direct messages
For more information about MemberCentric, click here.
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SGIM Members in the News
Former SGIM President JudyAnn Bigby, M.D., was recently named a senior fellow in Mathematica Policy Research's Health Research Division. In her new position, she will apply her experience to a broad range of topics, including accountable care organizations; state health policy; primary care transformation; and integration of physical and behavioral health, with a special focus on women's health, minority health, and disparities.We congratulate her on this accomplishment.
To read the entire release, click here.
PCORI Awadees Announced
Earlier this week PCORI announced funding awards for 71 new CER projects--congrats to SGIM members Mary Whooley, Cynthia Chuang, Tracy Battaglia & Barbara Turner who are included in the list of recipients.To view the full list, click here.
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