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FollowSGIM on Instagram
Follow SGIM on Instagram-
Keep up to date with the latest pictures from meetings, regions, National Office, and other SGIM events. Have a photo you would like to submit to the page?
Send it to MachulskyJ@sgim.org
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Join the JGIM Web Editorial Team
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The JGIM Web editorial team is growing and we are looking to fill two positions.Please forward to appropriate candidates who are interested in being part of a dynamic and creative team. Click here to learn more.
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SGIMMembers in the News
As of May 1, LeRoi S. Hicks, MD, MPH, is the new Vice-Chair of Medicine for Christiana Care Health Care System located in Newark and Wilmington, DE.
Congratulations to LeRoi on his new position.
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High Value Coordination of Care
In April, the American College of Physicians (ACP) released their High Value Care Coordination Toolkit (availablehere).
The ACPHigh Value Care Coordination (HVCC) Project is an effort to develop a toolkit to facilitate more effective, high value, patient-centered care coordination between primary care and subspecialty/specialty practices.
Members of SGIM's Clinical Practice Committee represented SGIM in this initiative to work with the ACP and Council of Subspecialty Societies to optimize collaboration between referring and consulting physicians. This project should strengthen SGIM's relationship with our medical specialty colleagues.
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The Adults with Complex Conditions Originating in Childhood Task Force is Seeking Your Input
Win a Starbucks Card!!!
In order to determine the views of general internists regarding their comfort and interest in caring for adults with special needs due to conditions beginning in childhood, and to find out how our task force can best serve the membership of SGIM, we are asking members to complete a brief survey by clicking here to link to the survey.It should take only about 5 minutes to complete.
Interested participants will be entered into a drawing to receive one of two $25 Starbucks Gift Cards. The deadline is June 10.
We appreciate your help with this endeavor.
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New Bottom Line Summary Released
The SGIM Evidence-Based Medicine Task Force has released a new Bottom Line Evidence Summary on the topic of extended follow-up of screening mamography.
Mammography screening, compared with clinical breast exam, over a 5 year period did notprevent mortality after 22 years of follow up in a large Canadian study. Overdiagnosis of aclinically insignificant cancer was seen in 23 in every 10,000 screened women.
Read the full Bottom Line Summary online here.
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UpToDate Introduces Enhanced Search Results and an Improved User Interface
In the next few weeks, you will be able to find your evidence-based answers faster than ever with targeted links to the sections and graphics most likely to answer your clinical questions. UpToDate synthesizes data from over21 million monthly topic viewsto analyze search terms and information viewed by clinicians - analysis that enables UpToDate to quickly and accurately display relevant sections and graphics for a given search.
Click here to visit UpToDate and get the most recent information on this and other initiatives.
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