This past weekend, from October 19-20, 2023, the Department of Internal Medicine’s residents presented posters in Chicago, IL, at the annual Midwest Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) conference. SGIM’s mission is to “cultivate innovative educators, researchers, and clinicians in academic general internal medicine, leading the way to better health for everyone.” Under this year’s […]
Iowa makes another strong showing at Midwest SGIM! Our IM residents’ Quality Improvement (QI) curriculum faculty led by Carly Kuehn, MD, and including Matt Soltys, MD, Ethan Kuperman, MD, Chief Resident for Quality and Safety Sam Zetumer, MD, and Krista Johnson, MD, MME, continue to encourage and help prepare our residents to present their team’s […]
A major component of residency training in Internal Medicine at Iowa is an emphasis from day one on research and scholarship in practical ways. One of the ways this happens is through active involvement in a quality improvement project each year. We interviewed Matthew Soltys, MD, last year’s Chief Resident of Quality and Safety and […]
By this point in the pandemic, regional and national conferences have managed to find the creative solutions necessary to still host their annual meetings. Trainees in Internal Medicine have been no less creative in their adaptations and certainly no less successful in their abstract submissions and presentation competitions. There have been more winners and accepted […]
Because of the support of the Division of General Internal Medicine, six internal medicine residents, a fellow in endocrinology, and a medical student were able to travel to Minneapolis last month for the regional Midwest Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) meeting. Each of them had an oral or poster abstract accepted for presentation. Krista […]
Members of the Internal Medicine Residency Program delivered presentations at the most recent meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), including Dr. Matthew McGee, who took first place in the Clinical Vignette Oral Presentation competition. SGIM holds seven regional meetings around the country throughout the year and last month’s Mid-West Regional Meeting in […]
Second-year resident Dr. Matthew McGee received the first-place prize in Clinical Vignette Oral Presentations at this year’s Society of General Internal Medicine Midwest Regional Meeting (SGIM), held September 13-14 in Chicago. Dr. McGee’s winning presentation, “Blood Pressure Control Causing a Bloody Mess,” detailed the work-up and successful treatment of a patient who was found to […]