UMass FMCH Tuesday Talk - April 23, 2024/RESEARCH | |
Welcome to the FMCH Tuesday Talk. Please continue to send us your announcements, celebrations, and accomplishments to FMCHtuesdaytalk@umassmed.edu. | |
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Table of Contents
Upcoming Events
Focus of the Week – Research
Announcements
Department Member Recognition
Frankly Speaking Podcast
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Focus of the Week - Research
Suzanne Mitchell, MD, MS, Director, Research
Research in Progress
Please join us for our next Research-in-Progress meeting on Friday, May 10th at 10:00am on Zoom.
Dr. Apurv Soni from the Division of Health Systems Science will present on digital health recruitment strategies.
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As a reminder, we hope to establish a regular, quarterly schedule of in-person meetings every March, June, September, and December. In that spirit, please save the date for the next in-person gathering for FMCH researchers on Friday, June 14th from 9:00am-12:00pm noon. | |
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Announcements
ForHealth Consulting, a division of UMass Chan Medical School, is conducting an evaluation of the 1115 Medicaid waiver programs. One of the programs is about workforce incentive initiatives including student loan repayment program, residency grant program, etc. The evaluation needs to assess the impact of these financial incentives on primary care clinicians and behavioral health providers to work and stay at community health centers. The evaluation team plans to conduct a survey among clinicians (and prospective clinicians) about financial and non-financial incentives that are impactful on their choices of workplace. To develop the survey, the evaluation team hopes to have a brief discussion during the next 2-3 weeks with 3-5 primary and BH clinicians and/or graduating students about the relevance of incentive scenarios. It will take 10 - 15 mins. If you’d like to contribute to this process and/or to share your opinion by email, please contact Yara Halasa-Rappel, PhD, DMD.
(yara.halasarappel@umassmed.edu). Your information will allow the evaluator to gather information that the State Medicaid agency may consider to combat the issue of provider shortages. Thanks for your interest!
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Addressing Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Healthcare From The Perspectives of Survivors Symposium
Monday, April 29th, 9:00am-2:30pm, A symposium dedicated to understanding the scope of commercial sexual exploitation, its impact in healthcare, and ways in which we can positively impact these patients. Please contact Stevie Yang, Stevie.Yang@umassmed.edu, Evelyn Semenov, Evelyn.Semenov@umassmed.edu or Ivy Mwangi, Ivy.Mwangi@umassmed.edu for more information.
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Upcoming Meet the Author Event at UMass
May 9, 2024, 5:30pm, UMass Chan Medical School - Lazare Auditorium
Worcester District Medical Society and the Lamar Soutter Library are proud to offer this Meet the Author Event featuring Dr. Sunita Puri. Dr. Sunita Puri is the Program Director of the UMass Chan Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship and Associate Professor of medicine. A graduate of Yale and a Rhodes Scholar, she completed medical school and residency in internal medicine at UCSF and her palliative medicine fellowship at Stanford. She is a contributor to the NY Times, LA Times, and JAMA. She is the author of That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour, a critically acclaimed literary memoir examining her journey to the practice of palliative medicine, and her quest to help patients and families redefine what it means to live and die well in the face of a serious illness.
UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center is hosting a Teddy Bear Clinic on
May 18th, 2024. This year’s Teddy Bear Clinic is sure to be an exciting adventure that kids will love. Not only will they get to learn more about the doctor's office but also meet some educational professionals who will help teach them about proper hygiene and healthy habits. If you are interested in hosting a booth, please fill out the form here: https://forms.office.com/r/QhusB1NXCw. Please note, all booth volunteers who are not already UMass Memorial employees will need to be onboarded by our volunteer services group and will need to be pre-registered with UMass Chan to be on site. If you have any questions or would like to talk more about the Teddy Bear Clinic, please feel free to reach out to Alison.LeBlanc@umassmemorial.org.
The Gender Affirming Care Learning Collaborative (GAC-LC) is sponsored by the UMass Chan Department of Family Medicine and Community Health (FMCH) and Co-Led by Melissa Gleckel, MD, and Amber Cahill, PsyD, who will be joined by visiting expert faculty across the UMass system. The purpose of the GAC-LC is to provide primary care clinicians within the UMass community a place to learn about the foundations of providing gender affirming care to adults from faculty peers and experts. The goal is to fuse silos of knowledge and enhance interdisciplinary, cross-system, and collaborative care to meet the needs of our gender diverse and transgender community in Central Massachusetts. The GAC-LC will offer a 6-session Foundations in Gender Affirming Care for Adults series that includes monthly 60-minute virtual meetings (typically first Wednesday of the month, 12:15-1:15). Each session will offer 1-hour of CME credits, sponsored by the New England AIDS Education & Training Center; https://www.neaetc.org/.
See announcement for more information
How to Register:
See GAC-LC Annoucement for additional information.
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Department Member Recognition
Kristina Gracey will be joining the UMass Chan Learning Communities as a Learning Communities Mentor in Burncoat House, starting July 1st.
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Frankly Speaking Podcast
A weekly Podcast series covering newsworthy topics in primary care medicine.
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/frankly-speaking-about-family-medicine/id1194659367.
Please join us for an overview: Fluid in the middle ear, or otitis media with effusion (OME), is common in children with upper respiratory infections and typically resolves without treatment. Most guidelines do not recommend antibiotics for treatment; however, they are often prescribed, and the persistence of effusion can cause a significant impact on quality of life. Join us as we discuss recent review findings on antibiotics in OME treatment and the potential impact on your practice. Guest: Susan Feeney, DNP, FNP-BC, NP-C, presents: "To Treat or Not to Treat: Do Antibiotics Make a Difference with OME?" - Frankly Speaking Ep 377.
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Clinical Services Spotlight:
Josephine Fowler, MD, MBA, Vice Chair of Clinical Services
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Congratulations to Benedict Family Medicine for their selection as one of two UMass primary care practices to receive the Massachusetts Health Quality Partners (MHQP) 2023 awards for being one of the top practices in Massachusetts for patient experience in primary care. Read more about this excellent recognition!
Healthy People 2030
The Department of Health and Human Services has set the Nation's 2030 Health Goals. Let's commit to Health Equity and promoting good health in our community.
https://health.gov/healthypeople/objectives-and-data/leading-health-indicators
Please see the attached Health Indicators that are the focus of improving health for 2030.
Reminder- Have you completed MAVRIC training?
Please see the link below for important information on how to use the vital records system. https://www.mass.gov/guides/mavric-training-program
Below are the dates of upcoming introductory information on how to use this system:
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Wellness Resources
The Caring for the Caregiver Program provides resources such as the Caregiver Support Line (508-334-HELP) and The Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which offers a variety of services and supports (including virtual peer support and wellness tips. EAP can be accessed at 866-263-3525, or www.LiveandWorkWell.com,
[company code: UmassMemorial]. More information is available on the Caring for the Caregiver page.
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