The seminar series enhance residents' knowledge of topics important for general internal medicine practice, education and research. Seminars include didactic instruction, interactive discussion, field trips and hands-on learning. Seminars take place 1/2-day each week during primary care block rotations.
Fall 2000
Improving the Health Care Response to Domestic Violence
This seminar series teaches residents how to identify and care for victims of domestic violence. Highlights of this course included a visit to Greenhouse Shelter to tour the facility and discuss life experiences with survivors of domestic violence.
Community Medicine
This seminar series improved residents' understanding of the communities in which their patients lived. The curriculum included tours of Chicago's neighborhoods and a community treasure hunt in which residents were asked to search for items in neighborhood stores, schools and community centers.
Spring 2001
Managed Care
This seminar series improved residents' familiarity with managed care practice. Discussions included the ABCs of managed care, coding and utilization review.
Fall 2001
Doctor-Patient Communication
This seminar series increased residents' abilities to communicate effectively with patients. Residents discussed strategies to improve communication with their patients and participated in role-play and interviewing exercises.
Medical Informatics
This seminar series improved residents' abilities to use information technology to obtain and present information. Held in the computer laboratory at Rush Medical College, the course provides learners with hands-on experience in advanced literature and web-based searches, Power Point presentations and hand-held computer applications.
Spring 2002
Caring for the Latino Community
This seminar series increased awareness of Latino culture. Discussions include family dynamics, etiquette, food choices and traditional remedies and herbs. Residents had the opportunity to visit a camp and medical clinic for migrant farm workers.
Fall 2002
Introduction to Public Health
This seminar series increased residents' knowledge of public health principles and practice. Residents use distance learning technology to take on-line courses at the University of Illnois School of Public Health including PH 411 What is Public Health, PH 414: Law Government and Public Health and PH 417: Public Health Interventions.
Spring 2003
Evidence-Based Medicine
This seminar series addresses the basic concepts of evidence-based medicine in order to improve residents' ability to read the medical literature and to conduct research. Topics include likelihood ratio, predictive value, odds ratio, relative risk reduction and number needed to treat.
Fall 2003
Medical Spanish Language Instruction
The goal of this longitudinal seminar series was to improve residents' ability to speak Spanish in the medical setting. Residents receive language training from native-speaking professional instructors. Both beginner and intermediate classes were held.
Spring 2004
Health Care Disparities
Residents explored the causes of health care disparities and national strategies to diminish these disparities. Discussions included the concept of race as a social rather than biologic construct, stereotypes and biases based on race, African American disparities, Latino disparities and Asian disparities.
Medical Spanish Language Instruction
The goal of this longitudinal seminar series was to improve residents' ability to speak Spanish in the medical setting. Residents receive language training from native-speaking, professional instructors. Beginner and intermediate classes were held.
Fall 2005
Obesity, Diabetes and The Metabolic Syndrome
Series of lectures on obesity, diabetes, and the metabolic syndrome. A
visit to Stroger Hospital's CIC-START Diabetes Patient Education Center and the
TLC Patient Learning Center. At these innovative patient education
centers, residents were shown how their patients are taught how to read labels
while grocery shopping (in a mock grocery store), participate in exercise
classes and learn how to assess their cardiovascular risk via computer programs.
Billing and Coding in Medical Practice
Essential information for reimbursement in outpatient practice reviewed.
Winter 2006
Medical Spanish Language Instruction
The goal of this longitudinal seminar series was to improve residents' ability to speak Spanish in the medical setting. Residents receive language training from native-speaking, professional instructors. Beginner and intermediate classes were held.
Outpatient Musculoskeletal Disorders-Practical
Evaluation and Management
Series of teaching sessions on the diagnosis, management and treatment of a
variety of musculoskeletal disorders seen in the outpatient setting (knee pain,
shoulder pain, Fibromyalgia).
Spring 2006
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Didactic session on outpatient diagnosis and management in the primary care
setting; how to manage GAD while managing other comorbid illness.
Herpes Zoster
Didactic session on outpatient diagnosis, management, treatment and how to
prevent devastating sequelac of this common disorder.
Otitis Media Workshop
Educational session conducted by Rush otolarynylogist, Paul Jones, M.D., in
which participants learned to properly use pneumatic otoscope and tympanometer,
classify OM in standard terminology, describe anatomy and physiology of the
middle ear and eustachian tube, and recognize common pathological conditions of
the middle ear.
Fall 2006
Medical Spanish Language Instruction
The goal of this longitudinal seminar series is to improve residents' ability to speak Spanish in the medical setting. Residents receive language training from native-speaking, professional instructors. Beginner and intermediate classes are held.
How to Choose a Career in General Medicine
One on one question and answer sessions with internists in a variety of practice settings: academic, community-based, and private practice.
Winter 2006
Understanding Pay for Performance and Relative Value Units (RVU's)
Current topics in the business of medicine and reimbursement reviewed.
Caring for the Hearing Impaired
A primary care internist with a practice devoted to the hearing impaired discussed unique medical situations, barriers to health care, and legal mandates to protect the health of the hearing impaired.
Home Healthcare Issues
When to initiate home health care and services provided were reviewed.
Top 10 Mistakes Internists Make in Neurology
Mistakes in managing headaches, seizures, dizziness, and paresthesias and weakness discussed.
How to Avoid Medical - Legal Mistakes in Documentation
Most common mistakes in documentation to decrease legal risk were reviewed.
Spring 2007
Smoking Cessation
Review of patient counseling techniques and treatments for smoking cessation.
How to Prepare for a Job Interview and Creating a CV
Recruiters and attendings in practice discussed what they were looking for when hiring new attending physicians.
Top 10 Mistakes Internists make in Gastroentenology
Engaging review by one of the GI fellows.
Migrant Health
Available healthcare resources and delivery and medical problems unique to agricultural workers were discussed.
Disability Medicine
Didactic workshops how to manage, address patients with disability in primary care. Topics included assisting patients applying for disability, the hearing impaired patient, health literacy.
Fall 2007
Primary Care of STD's/HIV
Update on STD's epidemiology and treatment in the Chicago area.
Choosing a Career in Public Health
Graduate of the Rush/Stroger PCIM Program discussed why he chose a career in the public health sector, its challenges and rewards.
Preconception Counseling
Residents taught how to counsel patients who are trying to conceive as well as reviewing which medications and environmental exposures to avoid.
Red Eye and Other Ocular Emergencies
Review of the common causes and treatments of red eye and other ocular emergencies seen in the primary care setting as well as when to send a patient to the ED for an ocular emergency.
Secondary Amenorrhea
Causes patient presentation and management of secondary amenorrhea reviewed.
Infertility
Epidemiology, case presentation and management of infertility reviewed and services offered to the underserved community at Stroger hospital discussed.
Depression and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
The high frequency of violence in the underserved community is often coupled with resultant depression and PTSD. Screening for these disorders, diagnostic criteria and their management were discussed.
Update: NIH Outpatient Asthma Management Guidelines
Latest NIH asthma management guidelines reviewed.
Winter 2008
Palliative Care
Series of lectures covering topics such as end of life care, medical-legal issues, hospice, power of attorney, and do not resusciate status.
Life After Residency and Career Decision Making
Discussion with recent program alumnae regarding the challenges of private practice vs. working in academic medicine.
Resident Research Day
PGY-3 residents presented their posters that they previously presented at scientific meetings, and discussed their research projects and their roles on the research team.
How to Prepare for a Job Interview
Interviewing techniques, how to write a curriculum vitae, and how to assess a practice opportunity as a good fit were taught to the PCIM residents.
Spring 2008
Improving Doctor-Patient Communication and Physician Empathy through Literature
4 week workshop series with a physician who has expertise in training other physicians on self-reflection by using literature as a medium.
EKG's: Part I
A favorite cardiologist at Stroger Hospital reviewed the basic and not-so basic elements of EKG's including unusual arrythmias.
Outpatient Management of Chronic Pain Syndromes
Director of the Pain Management Clinic at Stroger Hospital reviewed the initial outpatient management of pain in the primary care setting and when to refer to a specialist (anesthesia)
Update: Outpatient Diabetes Management
Case-based discussion implementing the latest American Diabetic Association (ADA) guidelines for managing diabetes in the ambulatory setting.
Fall 2008
Primary Care of the COPD Patient
Prevention, diagnosis, pharmacologic treatment and end-stage disease and pulmonary rehabilitation will be reviewed.
Obesity: the Other Eating Disorder
Prevalence, disease sequence and information on how to counsel patients in regards to diet and exercise will bediscussed.
EKG's: Part II
A follow-up discussion to the Spring 2008 workshop.
Update: Colon Cancer Screening
Efficacy of fecal occult blood testing, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy and colonography reviewed.
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