Leadership Announcement – General Medicine & Geriatrics (Links to an external site)

Evanoff

It is my pleasure to announce that the Divisions of General Medicine and Geriatrics (GMG) and General Medical Sciences (GMS) will come together to form the Division of General Medicine and Geriatrics under the leadership of Bradley Evanoff, MD, MPH, effective July 1, 2024. Dr. Evanoff, the Richard A. and Elizabeth Henby Sutter Chair in Occupational, Industrial, and Environmental Medicine […]

Flourishing Among Internal Medicine Residents: A Cross-Sectional, Multi-institutional Study published by Dr. David Vermette (Links to an external site)

This paper was a multisite survey of internal medicine residents aimed at exploring trainee well-being from a more holistic perspective using the lens of flourishing. Flourishing incorporates aspects such as meaning, purpose, virtue, and social relationships into the model of well-being, in addition to physical and mental health, and life satisfaction. Resident flourishing was positively 

Join us on November 17, 2023 for WashU Internal Medicine CPC – Eric Johnson, MD (Links to an external site)

The clinicopathological conference, popularly known as CPC, is a case method process of learning medicine. It uses a problem-solving approach. A case is presented with diagnostic data and is followed by a discussion of differential diagnosis which is narrowed down to a final diagnosis. Speaker: Eric Johnson, MD Division: Hospital Medicine Title: “93 y/o M […]

Spotlight on WashU General Medicine (Links to an external site)

The mission of General Medicine is to provide the highest quality patient care, to educate and train physicians of peak caliber, and to conduct research, all in the context of academic primary care internal medicine. Jennifer M. Schmidt, MD, FACP, a general internist in the division shares with us more about her job and why […]

Embracing Caregivers Patient-Centered Rounds (Links to an external site)

As a hospitalist, Mark Williams, MD, has spent quite some time considering how we can improve the patient experience, during hospitalization and in the follow-up care once released. He recently wrote an editorial to an article about the experience of family caregivers in an American hospital as their loved one went through the transition of the ICU […]