Congrats to Dr. Justin Menezes

Dr. Menezes is the spokesperson for the Florida Hospital Medical Group's influenza campaign. He was recently cited in the Miami Herald and Carepoint and The Street and Drug Store News. Cool beans! Awesome job advocating for the importance of the influenza vaccine Dr. Menezes!

AAFP Scientific Assembly a TERRIFIC SUCCESS!

This year's AAFP Scientific Assembly in Orlando was a rousing success! It was a great time to catch up with alumni and friends from across the country, to see old (and new) faculty present talks, and to catch up on some needed CME.

This year, the Family Medicine Residency gave 7 different talks:

1. Dr. Ariel Cole and Dr. Mina Zeini gave a talk on Preventative Medicine in the Elderly and Nursing Home Care. 
2. Dr. David Koo gave a talk on Pediatric Anemia.
3. Dr. Eddie Needham gave THREE talks!—Stress Testing, Fluids and Electrolyte Abnormalities, and Disorders Affecting Cardiac Function.
4. Dr. Bob Vandervoort gave his Pharmaceutical Update 2011.

In fact, Dr. Bob was even featured on the AAFP Conference Newsletter! Dude, you totally rock!

AND there's MORE... From internal medicine...

1. Dr. Daniel Tambunan gave a talk on Thromoembolic Disease and PE, Viral Hepatitis, and Lung Cancer.
2. Dr. Vincent Hsu gave a talk on Emerging Infections and Infectious Disease.

Finally, we are grateful for Dr. Keehbauch who served on the Subcommittee for the Annual Scientific Program. She was instrumental in helping this event run as smooth as a baby's bottom. We all saw her running from room to room orchestrating the symphony we call the Scientific Assembly! And, in the end, we are glad to report that she was still smiling...

Dr. Garg Wins 3rd Place at AAFP!

We are so proud of our very own Dr. Deepika Garg (3rd year resident) for placing third place for her poster at the AAFP Scientific Assembly. She did a tremendous amount of work and her hard work paid off! Congrats Deepika! We are so proud of you!

Here is a picture of Deepika "working the crowd." She was quite busy! 

The title of our study was "The Street Value of Various Controlled Medications in the United States." 

We are also VERY proud of the other residents and faculty who presented posters at the Scientific Assembly! Here is Dr. Liz Sasse next to her poster "The Innovative Use of Everyday Technology to Affect Patient Care." She gave a case study on using her cell phone to document a neonatal seizure! How cool is that!

Here is Liz's poster... (I have to show it off a little since I had a hand in design it... Sorry...)

Liz and Deepika PROMISED that they didn't plan to dress the same. Yeah right!

Here's Liz presenting her poster...

Here is Dr. Tony Lee presenting a VERY interesting case of CSF leak causing a runny nose. On the day of the conference, Tony had a mild cold and some rhinorrhea and started to freak out! We all tried to comfort Tony by telling him that he was just too invested in his poster and that it was highly unlikely that his CSF was leaking out!

And finally, our esteemed faculty Dr. Guthrie presenting his study on lifestyle intervention and diabetes!

Here is his poster in all of its glory. He designed it himself and did quite a nice job! But, without a doubt, the best part of his poster was in the upper right hand corner!

The donut with an insulin syringe! Priceless!

Congrats to Dr. Pinkal Patel

Dr. Patel was awarded the Florida State University Faculty Council  Outstanding Community Faculty Educator Award, defined as “a Florida State University College of Medicine clinical faculty member who consistently demonstrates dedication to principles of the curriculum, to identifying and meeting educational needs of students in an exemplary fashion, enthusiasm for teaching, participation in faculty development, and willingness to work collaboratively to effectively deliver the clinical curriculum.”

CONGRATULATIONS and TERRIFIC JOB!

In the picture above, Dr. Patel is next to Mike Muszynski (left) and the FSU medical school Dean, Jay Fogarty (right).

ALUMNI Social at AAFP Scientific Assembly

Please join us for an Alumni Get-Together at the AAFP Scientific Assembly if you happen to be in Orlando! Appetizers will be served! And it will be a great time to catch-up with old friends, check out what's going on at the residency, and to meet Dr. Eddie Needham, our new program director.

WHEN: Thursday, September 15th from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm.
WHERE: Hilton Orlando Convention Center Hotel
RSVP: Kendra Presley the Residency Program Coordinator by Friday September 9th if possible. Her phone number is 407-646-7757. Kendra's e-mail is kendra.presley@flhosp.org.

Hope to see you there!

CONGRATS ALUMNI on Publishing!

Congratulations to Drs. Jennifer Keehbauch, Gretchen San Miguel, Leslie Drapiza and Amelia Smith-Dixon on publishing their study "Increased Documentation and Management of Pediatric Obesity Following Implementation of an EMR Upgrade and Education". Other who helped on this project include Drs. Celeste Philip, Tania Crussiah, Robert Ansara, and Debbie Sauder. Awesome job!

Graduation 2011

Congrats again to the Class of 2011! We hope that you are doing well! Looking that these picture brings back fond memories of you all. Anyway, I finally got a chance to post the 2011 Graduation Photo Album online for your all to look at and download. Hope all is well! Keep in touch please! —David Koo

Final Jeopardy 2011

Here is the Faculty's video of the 2011 Final Jeopardy. Sorry that this took so long to post. Life has been kind of hectic lately. Enjoy! To download the entire file, click here to go to my vimeo website. Then click on the "download this video" link near the bottom right of the page.

Also, we're trying to get some graduation photos together and will hopefully have them up soon also. Hope you are all doing well, and don't forget to stop by to say "hi" when you are around!

Congrats to Class of 2011!

It is with great joy that we celebrate the graduating class of 2011! We will miss you all! As is our tradition here at Florida Hospital Family Medicine Residency, we had great fun poking fun at each other at "Final Jeopardy." Here is the faculty's attempt to "roast" the residents... Enjoy! (NOTE: Click on the photo below several times to get the zoomed-in view.)

Do you still perform COLPOSCOPIES?

Hello Alumni. Which of you still perform colposcopies in your office? Dr. Keehbauch has some suspicions that the ASCCP guidelines on resident competency may have impacted the number of colposcopies that family doctors perform. Could you please e-mail us if you still perform colposcopies and the year that your graduated? Thanks so much.

Here our study proposal...

Background and Objectives: The study objective was to determine the influence of the 2001 and 2006, American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (ASCCP) guidelines changes on colposcopy training at one family medicine residency.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review from 1/1/2000 to 10/31/2009.  The 2001 ASCCP guidelines were fully implemented into our practice in June 2002 and the 2006 guidelines in June 2008.
Data were extracted with from our electronic medical records and sorted into three groups:  2000-2002 (pre-2001 guideline changes), 2003-2007 (post 2001 and pre-2006 update), and 2008-2009 (post 2006 changes) for total female patient visits aged 18-75 years, pap smears, and colposcopies. An ANOVA post-hoc comparison test was performed on the 3 data groups to test significance.

Results: After the 2001 guidelines; there was a 28.6% significant decrease in colposcopies (CI 0.20-0.37). An additional, 16.5% significant decrease occurred post the 2006 revisions (CI 0.06-0.28). Consequently, residents performed 45.1% fewer colposcopies. The total number of pap smears remained relatively unchanged.

Conclusion: Implementation of the 2001 and 2006 ASCCP guidelines significantly reduced the number colposcopies performed, resulting in greater difficulty training competent Family Medicine residents in colposcopy.