Tanushree Nair, DO
My project centers around improving physician readiness to screen and manage intimate partner violence. Specifically through implementing a longitudinal curriculum for training physicians and creating a standardized workflow for providers, I hope to address the many barriers to care, eliminate false prejudices, and ultimately increase physicians’ comfort in counseling these patients and connecting them to vital resources.
Michael Harries, MD, MAT
I am specifically interested in better educating pediatric residents on Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and Section 504 plans. Given the important role these plans play for children in the school setting, there exists an opportunity for pediatricians to play a role in ensuring every child who qualifies receives this additional assistance when in school. My research project looks at the effectiveness of a brief curriculum on the number of conversations pertaining to IEPs and Section 504 Plans held in the clinic setting.
Samuel Trump, MD
My project aims to increase the amount of Medicare Annual Wellness Visits completed by residents in PCG by teaching residents via training sessions, PDFs, and videos. We’ll also then be collecting information from the health risk assessment portion of AWV to guide future studies and interventions.
Collin Hanson, MD (left) & Michael Lourie, MD (right)
We are working on a quality improvement project to integrate Healthcare Power of Attorney (HC-POA) documentation into the flow of an ambulatory appointment for primary care clinics at the University of Chicago. This project was awarded institutional support from the Trust in Practice/Choosing Wisely Challenge through the Healthcare Science Delivery & Innovation office.
Molly Leavitt, MD
My LUCENT research focuses on reducing anti-fat bias in medicine. Physicians and medical trainees across the board have implicit and explicit bias against patients with larger bodies, which can significantly impact care they provide. For this project, we developed a brief intervention on weight stigma for internal medicine residents. The goal of this intervention is to educate about the impact of weight bias in medicine and to get participants to challenge their own biases. Fifty residents have participated so far, with promising improvements in their explicit bias scales, and I am hoping to have more residents participate this year.
Hannah Pursley, MD
Due to the structure of ambulatory time in the UChicago Internal Medicine Residency Program as a “block” or “X+Y” system, residents often see each other’s primary care patients in the clinic. My project will examine current practices in communicating patient information in these instances – i.e., the resident handoff system for clinic patients. I will survey residents to determine current methods of communication and gauge interest in methods to improve the handoff process. I aim to eventually incorporate the feedback from my project into improving the resident handoff structure in our resident primary care clinic.