Attending/Resident Tally

Sarah has tallied up the Resident/Attending pairing for the last 2 years. This data will help us pair you with a variable amount of Attendings to maximize your exposure, this does not guarantee that you'll get your attending of choice, it is merely a guide for the Chiefs to utilize

Click on the chart and hover your mouse over the colors to see the exact weeks.

July 1st Schedule Transition

July 1st is a Tuesday for this year. Because of this the typical switch day will not occur until Tuesday July 1st, 2014. What does this mean?

On Sunday 6/29/14:

• Night Float Team remains unchanged (Yaghoubian/Aguirre)
• All Wards and ICU teams remain unchanged

On Monday 6/30/14:

• All wards teams remain unchanged
• Platinum wards team will be on call (Ragland/Cohen/Gill/Salam)
• ICU team 1 (Loewen) will be on day call (with Gary Walters NP for overnight call)
• Kassabian is off during the day and will start as Night Float Resident at 9pm
• BenPerlas will be starting as the Night Float Intern at 12 Midnight
• Transfer notes are to be completed in preparation for change in service

On Tuesday 7/1/14 - The schedule posted to AMION will take effect

• Purple Wards Team (Ghafarizadeh/Sidhu) and ICU Team 2 (Cohen) on call.
• Night Float Resident: Kassabian
• Night Float Intern: BenPerlas

Overnight Survival Guide

AMiON is now live

Pronounced: Am I on?

Quick instructions:

1. Go www.amion.com
2. On the top right enter the keyword that was e-mailed out into the login box and click login
3. The first screen you will see is a list of who is on call today and their pager number
4. At the top there will be several links:
• Block: the complete 2014-2015 block schedule.
• Call: See who's on call for the selected month (use the arrows next to the smiley face to scroll through different months.
• Off: Shows the off schedule
• Clinic: Shows the continuity clinic schedule.
• Binoculars: Brings you to the first screen. Here you can check who's on Call, Clinic, Wards, etc.. with their contact information available.
• Calendar with stick figure: Create your own schedule for a certain month.
• Smiley face: submit special requests (currently disabled)

An easy way to check your call schedule is to click "Call" and on the top. select highlight and choose your name.

Any changes made to the schedule will be reflected immediately on the website.

Get your specific requests in before the continuity clinics and wards are scheduled!

The Politics of Medicine

It's getting ugly folks...

As many of you know, being involved in the politics of medicine is important. You must stay involved in order to prevent non-medical professionals dictating how you practice medicine.

Recently, the first CIR Women in Medicine Dinner was held at the Padre. We had an amazing panel of speakers including former faculty, Dr. Jennifer Abraham. Dr. Abraham is a successful (and in my opinion brilliant) IM physician in private practice in Bakersfield.

She educated us on MICRA (Medical Injury Compensation Reform Act of 1975) and more importantly that the trial lawyers have successfully rallied for the anti-MICRA act to be placed on the ballot this November. They are calling the "patient safety act" as a clever disguise to get people to vote for it, and there is talks the title may change to "Drug and alcohol testing of doctors.”

MICRA allows for a $250,000 pain and suffering cap on malpractice claims, thus controlling malpractice insurance rates and improving accessibility to physicians for Californians (which was difficult prior to MICRA...read some newspaper archives from the 1970's).

CLEVERLY DISGUISED UNDER THE "PATIENT SAFETY ACT"... random drug and alcohol testing of doctors and require doctors to check a statewide database before prescribing narcotics (CURES REPORT). 

The repercussions of passing this act will negatively impact any of us planning to stay in California to practice after residency.  Please get informed and read about the history of MICRA and how it set a precedent for the rest of the nation in regards to tort reform.  Inform your friends, family and co-workers. Most importantly, VOTE THIS NOVEMBER.  

A recent poll showed 71% of voters are in favor of the act, most likely because of the misleading title and lack of education on the topic.

 

ID Monthly Case Conferences Re-instituted

Dr. Heidari would like everyone to know that the ID monthly case conferences will be restarted. Vinutha is scheduled to present a case Tuesday, May 27th. The goal of the conference is to present an interesting case. Dr. Heidari will be the moderator and Dr. Johnson as well as Dr. Heidari will be mentors in helping select cases.

  DELICIOUS

Medicine Graduation Party

Come out for the celebration of our graduating residents. Mark your calenders:

Friday, May 30th, 2014 from 6:30 to 11:00pm at the Four Point Sheraton's Grand Ballroom.

Please RSVP with Sharon Greer (sgreer@kernmedctr.com)

Click below to open the invitation: