Next up, Drs. Linda King & Eva Reitschuler-Cross were awarded a UPSOM Education Award for Outstanding Professional Enrichment Course for their course titled "Palliative Care Communication Skills" - congratulations! 🎉 Pitt Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Palliative Research Center

Congratulations to Rachel Vanderberg for being awarded the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Early Career Educator Award! 🎉

Only a few more weeks to register for Debbie DiNardo's Mini #MedEd course! You'll discover a 6-step approach to curriculum development that can be applied across learner levels & educational settings. Register: icre.pitt.edu/meded/index.ht…

We're not shocked some of our #PittACESfellows brought home Rita M. Patel GME Leadership conference awards! Katie Gavinski, MD, MPH, MS Ed was awarded Best Poster for "The effect of a multi-level curriculum on use of clinical reasoning terminology in nationally presented clinical abstracts." 🎉

#PittACESfellow Kathryn Leyens was a Rita M. Patel GME Leadership Conference Oral Presenter 𝐀𝐍𝐃 was awarded Best Poster for "Cultivating a culture of safety: An online curriculum for internal medicine residents on patient safety events & root cause analysis." 🎉

They are on levothyroxine (LT4) to treat hypothyroidism. TSH is not on target What to do? Follow the 🧵

In case of malabsorption: 1- Try to fix the malabsorption 2- Give vitamin C with LT4 Vitamin C? Yes, vitamin C is acid and enhances LT4 absorption. Interestingly, a clinical study showed improved TSH in all patients! academic.oup.com/jcem/article/9… Anything else to add? Please, add!

Excited to share that I will be presenting our work on immune-related adverse events in melanoma at #ASCO2023. Thank you to John M. Kirkwood, Lilit Karapetyan and UPMC Hillman Cancer Center for the ongoing support and guidance.

Hey #medtwitter #AIMW23 AAIM, can’t wait to teach you how to use Twitter to teach clinical reasoning at 830am. Come to room 6A to see the talk in action. If you want some pre or post-workshop reading, check out our tweetorial from a while back, below!

Anita Ganti, MD, MS Ed getting ready to present her #PittACESFellowship masters thesis SO proud of this VA Pittsburgh advanced women’s health fellow. Check her out at #SGIM23 too! Carla Spagnoletti MD, MS Amar Kohli MD

Outstanding masters thesis defense by Casey McQuade, MD, MS Ed., showing us his findings that experts are more likely than novices to include temporal pattern of illness and physical exam elements and less likely to include a diagnosis in their summary statement. Pitt General Internal Medicine

INCREDIBLE thesis defense by Casey McQuade, MD, MS Ed. - exploring what defines GOOD summary statements by comparing those written by experts & novices. This novel work will help to guide #MedEd training, dispel fixed beliefs about trainee’s notes, and inform #ClinicalReasoning education!

Huge shout out to Casey McQuade, MD, MS Ed. for an incredible conference this morning! His research project describes differences in structure of problem representation to help us better understand how #clinicalreasoning functions in real time. #MedEd #MedTwitter Pitt General Internal Medicine Pitt Institute for Clinical Research Education

Applications for ✌️ of our PittGIM fellowships, the Clinician-Researcher (#PittCRfellowship) & the Academic Clinician-Educator Scholars (#PittACESfellowship) open May 1! Get ready and stay tuned - we’ll be sharing more info as the application season begins! #FellowshipFriday

Such a wonderful presentation by Casey McQuade, MD, MS Ed. this morning. Congrats on your amazing work and looking forward to seeing your next steps! Pitt General Internal Medicine

New Beers Criteria for potentially inappropriate 💊 use in older adults. “Warfarin has been added as a 💊 to avoid when starting therapy for AFib…AGS is concerned that there are barriers to use of newer alternatives including high 💰.” #Pharmacoequity agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

#PittCRfellow, and former resident, Tim Bober shares what makes him #ProudtobeGIM as part of our countdown to this year's SGIM annual conference, #SGIM23!

Validate a tool to assess #SDH in #MedEd students in under two years? Only Milad Memari, MD, MS, MSEd. would be able to pull that off 😎 Congrats on your thesis defense!! Can’t wait to see what’s next! Pitt General Internal Medicine MedEd Pittsburgh PittDeptofMed #PittACESFellowship

New degree, who dis? I knew the #PittACESFellowship would be good, but nothing prepared me for 2 years of incomparable growth as an educator, scholar, & clinician. I’m eternally grateful for those who got me here, created opportunity for me, and tolerated my shenanigans. TY!!!

If you are looking for a premier #GIM fellowship look no further!