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Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Tammy!
WMed has a time/travel award policy available for residents accepted to present hyposthesis-driven research or a case series (3 or more cases, an individual case study is not eligible). They are granted an additional 3 days of professional development time, 2 travel days and the day of the presentation. If they want to attend the full conference, they can use additional professional development or vacation time. For a regional presentation (within 250 miles), they receive $500 toward their expenses. For a national presentation, they receive $1500. If two or more residents need to present, they must split the award. A project may only receive one travel award. For example, it could not be presented both at AAOS and MAOA and receive awards for both presentations. The resident can still present at both meetings, but they must use their own professional development time and funds for the second presentation.
Our monthly Journal Club is held at a restaurant, and we have a billing relationship with that location. Our faculty donate yearly to a fund which finances the meeting. We do not pay for alcohol. Depending on attendance, our bill is between $700 and $900. Prices went up after COVID!
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Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Barb!
Our rotation is only 6 months out of the year. I research AirBNB locations and then provide the link to our Accounting department, who books them with the institution credit card. They are currently working on an Institution AirBNB account which would allow me to book directly without going through Accounting.
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Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Jennafer!
We don’t have a specific paternity leave policy, but we do have a paid leave of absence policy that can be used by both birthing and non-birthing parents. It allows for 6 weeks of paid leave during the course of their residency, which can be used in any increment, and is subject to the requirements of leave of absence application and administration. I just emailed that policy to you!
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Laurie LynchKeymasterThanks, Laurel, for the screen cap! You can also set your paper layout to Landscape and your scale to 80% as another option that brings all the metrics within the margins.
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Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Rebecca!
You might also want to look into the ABOS Knowledge Skills and Behavior program. Right now it is still voluntary participation. It becomes a requirement in the 2025-2026 academic year for graduating residents who plan to sit for part I of the boards. We signed up for ABOS KSB this year. As part of their 360 evaluation in the fall of the year, they assign peer evaluations on professional behavior to the residents. That could be a useful tool for you!
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November 4, 2023 at 11:33 am in reply to: Oite Remote Testing issues no live text updates from tech support #5135Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Dawn! We are testing in person, but I did get this message from their alert system this morning when I logged in to my email about 6 am. Does not help make it any less frustrating though. Hopefully they will get it fixed for you soon! Good luck! Laurie
Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Laura!
We have a resident who may be on parental leave for our exam day this year. I did contact AAOS Exams team to ask, as we are testing in person as a group on a single day. They said we could pick an additional day within the testing window for that resident to complete the test, as long as we specified the date with the Exams team in advance and provided 2 proctors to test in person. Since we don’t know when the baby might arrive, we could not choose an alternate date. We are proceeding as planned, fingers crossed! But if our resident has to miss the exam day, he will just skip the exam this year. He is allowed to take the test when it releases in January after the score reports are issued, but he won’t get an individual score report and he would not be included in the full department metrics.
Laurie LynchKeymasterGood morning, Lynne! Happy Friday to you as well!
Yes, our application numbers are down about 150 from last year. My program director is speculating that with signaling, perhaps the powers that be are achieving their hope to bring the applications to a more manageable number.
I would also be interested to hear if this is a trend other programs are noting this year.
Thanks for posting the question!
Laurie
WMed Kalamazoo
July 26, 2023 at 2:02 pm in reply to: Residency Application Question – Chair/PD Letter Requirement #4900Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Viveka,
We don’t require a chair or PD letter. We look for letters where writers indicate a good amount of time has been spent with the student.
We also have challenges trying to get enough time with our chair and/or PD for students and sometimes schedules just don’t allow enough exposure to enable writing a letter.
Our department strongly encourages our faculty to use the eSLOR when writing letters and include robust comments. One or two still do the narrative, and sometimes the student requests both specifically.
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Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Tammy!
Our institution provides $1500 to our PGY2-PGY5 residents yearly that they should primarily use to either attend a conference or present at a conference. If they are presenting original research or a case series, they may also apply for our institution’s Time and Travel award. The award pays $1500 for expenses to present at a national conference, or $500 to present at a regional conference. It also provides an additional 3 conference days – two travel days and one day to present. Expenses allowed for reimbursement include airfare, conference host hotel, and per diem based on the government per diem rates posted on gsa.gov.
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WMU Stryker School of Medicine
Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Lashun!
Our graduation dinner begins with appetizers at 6:00 pm. Our graduates and their guests briefly step away during this time for our photographer to take a family photo.
Welcome from the program director at 6:55 pm. Dinner at 7:00 pm. Introduction and remarks at 7:45 from our department chair.
8:00 pm is the introduction of our graduating residents. Each resident asks a faculty member to introduce them. This is typically a PowerPoint that the faculty member has collaborated with family and co-residents to create. Once the faculty member presentation is done, the graduating resident presents a PowerPoint, usually highlights of their residency and thank-you’s.
Our faculty teaching award is presented by the graduates following the resident presentations. Then our department chair gives his closing remarks!
Hope this helps!
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Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Donna,
The 60 day minimum requirement is from the Residency Common Program Requirements.
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Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Sarah!
The ACGME requires a minimum of 60 days of protected research time during the course of residency. Here’s the citation from the ACGME Program Requirements for Orthopaedic Surgery:
IV.C.5.d) The program must provide each resident with at least 60 days of protected time for research. (Core)
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Laurie LynchKeymasterHey Bonnie,
WMed requires BLS and ACLS, and provides that during orientation. ATLS is required only for our PGY-1s in their first year. The faculty on our off-service trauma surgery rotation require our residents to have ATLS.
We had dropped ACLS recertification for a few years. But because many fellowships required it, and it was challenging for our graduates to find independent courses, we restored that to our regular recertification schedule.
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Laurie LynchKeymasterHi Sara! Exciting time to graduate your first class!
We have a watercolor print of the medical school campus matted, with their name and years of residency inscribed on the mat by a local calligrapher. They receive a tie or scarf in our school colors with the department logo. They also receive 5×7 prints of the full department photo (residents and faculty), a photo of the chiefs with our PD and chair, and a photo of the chiefs alone.
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