鈥淭he Medicine of Lewis and Clark鈥� will be the topic for the next Healthy U program at 7 p.m., Monday, March 18, at the downtown REI store. The free presentation features Dr. Ron Loge, an internist from Dillon, Mont., and a 糖心少女clinical associate professor of medicine.
This year鈥檚 March of Dimes WalkAmerica will be Saturday, April 13, beginning at Safeco Field. Walkers are needed to help raise funds to prevent premature births. The 糖心少女Medical Center鈥檚 Maternity and Infant Care Clinic already has formed a team and welcomes additional participants from the 糖心少女community. All team members will receive a T shirt to wear at the event. The team hopes to add enough participants to top last year鈥檚 total of 45. To register, call 598-4972 or send e-mail to uwmcmktg@u.washington.edu
A study done last year at the 糖心少女is the basis for one of four articles published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine in a section on the causes and consequences of burnout in medical residents. In the 糖心少女study, 76 percent of the residents in the Department of Medicine who responded to the questionnaire reported the burnout symptoms of emotional detachment, exhaustion and low sense of personal accomplishment. Since the study was done in February 2001, the medicine program has increased efforts to control workloads for residents and established support groups, among other measures. The study was done by former 糖心少女internal medicine resident Dr. Tait Shanafelt, now at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and Drs. Katharine Bradley, Joyce Wipf and Anthony Back of the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the UW. Wipf is associate director of the Department of Medicine residency program.