Late last spring, 2023-24 Chief Resident for Quality and Patient Safety (CRQS) Kathie Zhang, MD, presented her capstone project, Improving diabetic kidney disease screening in a VA resident primary care clinic, to the Veterans Integrated Services Network (VISN) 23 executive leadership team. In June, Zhang received notification that this presentation had earned her the “Capstone […]
Transition to Residency: Take Two
Led by Clinical Assistant Professor in General Internal Medicine, Matthew Soltys, MD, the Department of Internal Medicine Transition to Residency (TTR) course is a two-week elective offered through the Carver College of Medicine to fourth-year medical students who have applied to Internal Medicine residency programs, or are spending a preliminary year in Internal Medicine before […]
Chief Resident Introductions, 2020–21
Nicholas Arnold, MD While growing up in a rural Missouri farming community, my enthusiasm for science and history were surpassed only by my love of Mizzou football (M-I-Z). During my time at the University of Missouri I received my Bachelor of Science in Nutrition while researching the interface between diabetes and female genetics on cardiovascular […]