Informal Q&A session about our residency program with our current residents and chief residents.
Link will be shared on our Instagram page!
Virtual event through Teams app.
Looking forward to meeting our future applicants! 😁😁🥳
Visit our instagram page! Check out the highlights/stories/posts! We hope this can help you to get to know our program better.
We also have an updated website for you to check out more info including where our current residents come up/their med schools, our social events!
🔆🔆🔆We are happy to start our new series about morning report cases. 🔆🔆🔆
Welcome to CookCountyMR series!🥳🥳
Here we will discuss points that were highlighted in our morning reports.
Here is our first thread 🧵 about hyponatremia:
Anyone without
#ERAS2022
submission gitters? You would need to share your billion dollar secret with us! As a program, we want to let
#Match2022
, especially our
#immatch2022
applicants that it's okay, it's normal... Today just marks the day we can review your applications...
A thread 🧵 for international medical graduates starting their residency in the US:
Accent, ethnicity and immigration:
This July you are starting your journey in a whole new country. First off, be proud of yourself. You have tackled so many obstacles to get here
#MedTwitter
#IMG
Today on morning report... A patient with a turtle bite. The
#CookCounty
Hospital medical series would definitely give all others a good run for their bizarre cases. Wouldn't you want to join the cast?
#Match2022
#immatch2022
Spiddy is ready to weave out the web. It's only a few hours to fellowship
#MATCHDAY
. We will be updating you on this
@CookCountyIMR
Matchday tradition as our amazing PGY3s take the next step in their careers.
Watch this space...
Thank you all for attending the session! Hopefully it was an informative time for you and you can be sure to get much more if you eventually interview and match with us. We at County wish everyone a successful
#Match2022
.
#CountyStrong
💪🏻
We’re excited to welcome fellowship-trained interventional cardiologist Dr. Fady Iskander. Dr. Iskander is board-certified in internal medicine, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, and cardiovascular disease. Learn more:
Presentation alert!
As a member of the Pulmonary SSIG, Dr Viviana Reyes, PGY2 IM is presenting an abstract during the
#CHEST2021
conference.
Congratulations!
#CountyStrong
💪🏻
#IMproud
For IM
#Match2022
applicants, what do you want to know about a prospective program? At
#CookCountyIMR
we strive for value and not just routine engagements.
*One does not ask of one who suffers: What is your country and what is your religion? One merely says: You suffer, that is enough for me.*
Words etched in stone with the historic
#CookCounty
Hospital in the background.
Come make a real difference
#Match2022
#medtwitter
This is the end of an era and the start of a new one! Thanks to my family, friends and mentors. Special mention Dr Birch, who taught and guided me into the beautiful Hematology world ❤️ proud to have trained at
@CookCountyIMR
#InternalMedicine
A proud moment we wanted to share with all of you! Thanks to our residents for all of your efforts to provide the best care for our patients!
Here are the resident awardees of 2023:
One of the highest honors that can be bestowed on a clinician educator, is to have an annual attending teaching award named after them. Thank you, Cook County Health for this honor. Congratulations to Dr. Shaka, the first recipient of the award.
Cook County IM MR series 🧵
#3
Tips about altered mental status:
Patient with altered mental status from a nursing home. Exam shows a lethargic pt febrile, with wheezing. Labs remarkable for hypernatremia, leukocytosis of 25, elevated BUN, Cr.
Today we took our graduation photo. What a blast! I'm so happy that I have these amazing people as my co-chief residents this upcoming year😄
@me_prazolstha
@vardar_md
@dennisdkumiMD
We encourage 360 degree verbal and written feedback from our residents. It's only fair to extend this courtesy to residents-to-be as they participate in
#Match2022
. Your questions and suggestions have been helpful and noted. Watch out for our Meet and greet.
#CountyStrong
💪🏻
Honored to receive the research day award for this year. Only possible with my excellent mentors
@VijAviral
and
@MichaelGNanna
. Looking forward to more meaningful research in PGY3.
I am incredibly honored and grateful to receive this award from my institute. Not only have I been able to hone my clinical skills and serve underprivileged populations, but also I am empowered to embark on my journey in Research. To amazing friends and mentors! 🥹
#WomeninGI
Dr. Khoshbin, one of our future chief residents, has started a great series of threads to share her tips with the new interns.
#MedTwitter
You can see more content
@katykh1800
👏👏🎯
After ~1.5 years of waiting, our meta-analysis on TAVR vs SAVR is finally out!
Grateful for Dr.
@VijAviral
for encouragement despite many rejections and long wait.
Controversial, but newer RCTs continue to support TAVR perhaps 2/2 imp of devices/methods!
We also want to recognize a couple of applicants who did not
#fellowshipmatch
. We are still with you all the way and hope this is just a slight bump in your otherwise amazing career so far. County Strong 💪🏻
Earning a Get With The Guidelines® - Stroke Gold Plus quality achievement award for two years for best-in-class stroke care and prevention measures. The health system was also included on the stroke elite honor roll. 🎉
#HonorRoll
#Elite
@American_Heart
My third official publication! Incidence and risk factors of atrial arrhythmia in people living with HIV:
Thank you to Dr.
@VijAviral
for supervising the research and full manuscript.
@CookCountyIMR
#Countyfacts
Did you know that the first hospital based blood bank started right here in Cook County Hospital? It opened in 1937 and led by the famous Dr. Bernard Fantus!
Points to check in hx and ph/e:
-How patient describes the pain
-What setting the pain started in: rest or exertion
-How much exertion brought the pain (few steps or miles of exertion)
-Pain pattern during the time it happened (constant or intermittent, same intensity or changed)
Getting ready for the
#Match2025
?
April is a good time to start working on your checklist:
🔸️LORs: Choose the supervisors and ask them beforehand so they have enough time
🔸️Personal statement: Start now! Edit as many times as possible. Ask people to read and give feedback
⤵️
Honored to receive the outstanding research presentation award. A real boost for more scholarly work as a chief in July. I appreciate all colleagues and attendings who have mentored me all the way.
Diamond forrester chart should only be used if the chest pain is present for at least 6 weeks or more. This is to classify pretest likelihood of CAD.
Image source: Mdedge
I'm preparing a checklist for residents work rooms as we are cleaning up to get ready to welcome our new interns😁 here's what I came up with:
Aka Resident lounge 101 or how to make residents feel less miserable😆
#MedTwitter
#Chiefresident
Talking to patients with a medical interpreter: a thread🧵 for new interns of
#MedTwitter
#IMG
-Keep in mind that the interpreters may not understand complex medical terms. So avoid using the medical jargon as much as possible.
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4️⃣Always check Urine and serum osmolality and urine lytes.
Urine osmolality is a surrogate for ADH activity.
Important to check before administration of any fluids.
1️⃣Blood gas is more accurate than BMP in cases of pseudo hyponatremia. This is due to error in measuring Na level when we have increase in TG or proteins in the serum calculated as a whole when the machine calculates the BMP. This is not the case in blood gas test.
When patient has rest pain, the reason is decrease in o2 supply (causing demand supply mismatch). Therefore this was a plaque rupture or vasospasm that blocked the coronary artery most probably as the exertion is not there to increase demand.
@Mallika60047347
IMGs are an integral part of the US health system and
#Match2022
would be no exception to this. At
#CookCountyIMR
we value diversity, hence accept candidates from all over the world. Our roster speaks for itself.
2️⃣Check LFTs, this can show abnormalities in cirrhosis. Also, if we have excess amount of immunoglubulins as seen by a protein gap (increased total protein more than 4 gr compared to albumin) this could cause false hyponatremia
Crazy labs..... let’s see who has seen the most.... a team building initiative by one of our awesome house staff avanti26993 Stay tuned to see some crazy high numbers. @ Chicago, Illinois
5️⃣Check urine output and frequency. If patient drinking excess water, they will have increased urine output.
6️⃣Always check water/fluid intake and diet.