[Laurel Lewis]

Toni,
Can you post the questions here? If not, email them to me and I will be happy to take a look and do some inquiring.
~Laurel

[Laurel Lewis]

Mark your calendars!!

[Laurel Lewis]

Oh, only the PDF was accepted by the website. If you want the publisher file, please email me at llewis8@wellspan.org.
Cheers!

[Laurel Lewis]

I have it saved as a PDF and Publisher file (attached). Hopefully, you can use these. I think having the photo of the resident that they are evaluating is important for the patient to see.
~Laurel

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[Laurel Lewis]

Hi Ashley,
I use a simple one page form and give it to the Medical Assistants in the practice. They ask the patient if they would be willing to complete it and point out which “doctor” they are evaluating. I have had great success with this method.
~Laurel

[Laurel Lewis]

Amy,
I agree with Sylvia. Can you contact your GME office for guidance? Our residents are required to keep current with BLS, ACLS per our institution and our residency requires the residents to keep current with their ATLS.

BLS and ACLS are a 2 year certification; pretty much to the day. If they want to do the “renewal,” this can be online with an in-person skills test for both individually- but check with your GME Office. We just started doing online ACLS with a skills test (COVID), but before it was a one day course. BLS renewal has been offered online with an in-person skills test for years. If they wait until the certification has expired the resident will have to take the BLS/ACLS (BLS is a prerequisite for ACLS) and that could mean starting from scratch, maybe up to a 1.5 day course for each.

ATLS is initially a 2 day course and the renewal is a one day course. ATLS is also more lenient as there is a 6 month renewal window after their certification has expired and the certification lasts for 4 years. The extended renewal period may be due to the fact that these courses are not offered as much during the year – at least at our institution. We have wonderful people in our “Organizational Learning and Development” who are always willing to help with these courses. Maybe you have a similar department in your institution?
Hope this helps and if I’ve missed anything, please, someone come to my rescue and reiterate!
Take Care All!
~Laurel

[Laurel Lewis]

Hi Starla,
Thank you for your work on this project! At WellSpan we plan to use Zoom and break-out rooms as soon as I learn how to do that! We will interview 30 applicants for 3 spots in our program and most likely just 2 days of interviews.

Connie,
We have always had 2 interviewers per room in a round-robin type of interview day. We have 5 interview rooms with 2 faculty each, and one with 1/2 the residents in a small conference room. I make a schedule where 1 student enters a room with 2 faculty (1/2 the residents interview in the conference room, also). After 15 minutes is up, I have 5 more students waiting outside the 5 doors to go in. So, 5 students are interviewed every 15 minutes, then they go back to our staging room until their next interview. Half the faculty and half the residents interview in the morning and then the other half interview the same students in the same fashion in the afternoon. It is a long day but the residents that are not interviewing in the morning will entertain or torture them with a test. In the afternoon the other set of residents do the entertaining in our “staging room.” Sometimes in the afternoon the residents are just showing funny youtube videos to lighten the mood. The candidates have responded in post interview surveys that they like that they get to be 2 -1 with all the faculty for interviews a more personal interview.
Hope that makes sense.
~Laurel

[Laurel Lewis]

Hi Lisa,
Our Ortho residents were not re-deployed but did work in platoons until last week (May 27). Praise God, no one has tested positive – faculty, residents, or staff. Our COVID-19 cases are steady and low at our main teaching hospital: 21 in hospital with 7 on vents as of this morning. Elective surgical cases have opened.
I hope this helps and answers your questions.
Best wishes to all,
~Laurel
Laurel L Lewis, C-TAGME
Senior Orthopaedic Residency and Fellowships Coordinator
ARCOS Board Member-at-Large
WellSpan York Hospital
1001 South George Street
1st Fl PCT
York, PA 17405
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c. 717-676-0497

[Laurel Lewis]

Alyssa,
What is meant by this question:
*how many programs offer?

Could you provide your email address so we can respond to you?
Thanks!!
~Laurel

[Laurel Lewis]

Hi Shawn,
I did zoom interviews for my hand program this year and it worked out well. I used the Waiting Room feature. There was a recent webinar from U of AZ last week that went into great detail, way above my abilities but it gave some great ideas that could be implemented for residencies.

The ARCOS Board is working on a plan for a future virtual meeting for virtual interviews, so stay tuned.

[Laurel Lewis]

Hi Ramona,
Please check your email for a message from ARCOS President Kim Reising for an invitation to a “LIVE/Virtual” presentation with Dr Pam Derstine, our ACGME Executive Director for the Orthopaedic Review Committee. It is on this Thursday at 2PM via WebEx. We have asked her to go over the new changes coming up in the Common Program Requirements (CPRs) as well as specific items, like the Annual Program Evaluation (APE) and Action Plans. She also has a section on what we are to be documenting during the COVID 19 Crisis, and much more!

Ohhhh, I hope I have not given too much away! Looking forward to “seeing” you all there!!
~Laurel

[Laurel Lewis]

Omigosh, I love this title!

[Laurel Lewis]

Kelly,
Another option would be to post the information on this forum for all the coordinators. One post could hit all members!
Stay healthy, All!
~Laurel

[Laurel Lewis]

HOPING we will be able to proceed as usual by the end of June in South Central PA.
Blessings to ALL!
~Laurel

[Laurel Lewis]

It seems that every time Jen posts something in Boston, it happens the next day in Pennsylvania! We have the option to work from home so I will probably start tomorrow. Also, starting tomorrow in PA, all “non-essential stores” including restaurants and bars are to close for 2 weeks, at least. Grocery, medical, and trash collection will continue. You can get take out at a place that serves food, tho. All med students have been sent home, all meetings and education has been canceled for 2 weeks all over the system. All elective surgeries have been canceled. I have attached information regarding our surgery scheduling in this situation.

Residents have not been told that they are “on reserve” but we have canceled all their education and surgeries so they will be “home schooling” with OrthoBullets and research projects which have not been canceled hahaha.
I am scheduling our Hand Fellowship Interviews via Microsoft Teams video conferencing in April. That should be interesting – at least I will be learning a new skill. 🙂
Blessings to all! I’m not very good a “Home Working” so keep in touch!
~Laurel

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