Providence St. Vincent Internal Medicine Residency Program’s Team “Runorrhea” completed their fifth consecutive Hood To Coast Relay this summer. The Hood To Coast Relay stretches 197 miles from the top of Oregon's majestic Mt. Hood down to the beautiful Pacific Ocean in Seaside, Oregon. Here’s the team at the finish line in Seaside. Team "Runorrhea" included residents, faculty, attendings, spouses and friends including Quinn Emerson, Nick Barber, Emily Hitchcock, Jim Biemer, Alex Schafir, Cindy Chan and Jason DeVille.
August 2007: Exchange Student from Uganda
Arthur Kigozi, a fifth-year medical student from Mbarara University in Uganda, recently visited Providence St. Vincent Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency program for 10 weeks.
During his stay, Arthur learned a lot about American medicine, but perhaps even more about American culture. “Eh! Everything is so big! And very organized,” was Arthur's assessment when he shared some of his cultural reflections at a morning report. “It is very good,” he added, “But Americans don't greet. In Uganda, the people are very friendly. They will ask you 'How are your children? How was the night? How is your crop doing?' In America, people are down to business.”
It's not all work and no play in America, however. Arthur quickly made friends in Portland. He enjoyed bumper cars and bravely sampled the roller coaster at the Oaks Park Annual Barbecue. He tried windsurfing and “super-soaked” his buddies on a white water rafting trip down the Deschutes – quite impressive for someone who doesn't swim!
Arthur gave two talks to the residents: one on malaria and one on tuberculosis. He participated in ICU rounds, visited the cardiac catheterization lab and learned how to search PubMed more effectively by meeting regularly with Ann Vonsegen at the PSVMC Library.
In addition, Arthur worked with Bruce Bayley, Ph.D., CORE director, to develop a proposal for using the Popular Education model for training community health workers and promoters. He hopes to implement lasting change in the health care system in Uganda.
July 14, 2007: White Water Rafting
Second-year resident Jay Ham and his sister, Chelsey, grew up white-water rafting Northwest rivers. They invited the PSVMC residents for a float down the Deschutes River in central Oregon, complete with Class III and IV rapids, super-soakers and plenty of soda. Intern Katarine Egressy and third-year resident Franco Paz braved the rapids in the inflatable kayak (left). Second-year resident Sarah Schultz and partner, Amy, relax near the swimmer’s rapids (right).
July 7, 2007: Oaks Park Annual Barbecue
Every year, Providence St. Vincent Internal Medicine Residency program invites residents, faculty and staff to a family-friendly barbecue at Oaks Park. Sarah Rahkola, third-year resident, relaxes with her family (left). Third year resident Tim Hill gives the bumper cars a double thumb’s up (right).
Providence St. Vincent Residents Participate in ACP
In November 2006, seven residents from PSVMC presented posters. Dr. Evagelia Baros won third prize for her poster presentation, "Clouds of Smoke," a case of Moyamoya Disease. Dr. Karin Kuhl gave an oral case presentation titled "Perils of Plumbism."
In addition to these state awards, Drs. Karin Kuhl and Elke Lorence were invited to present their posters at the National ACP meeting in Philadelphia in April 2006. Dr. Kuhl’s poster, “D-Lactic Acidosis” and Dr. Lorence’s poster, “Refractory Thrombocytopenia in a Patient with Systemic Mastocytosis” were chosen by national ACP judges from 1,400 entries.
At the Oregon American College of Physicians meeting in November 2005, a total of 12 residents gave presentations. Dr. Shelley Sanders won first prize for her Clinical Vignette Poster titled “Right Atrial Mass and Pulmonary Embolism: More than Meets the Eye.” Dr. Patricia Michels won second prize for her oral case presentation titled “Insidious Aspect of a Common Virus” and was invited to the Alaska state ACP meeting in 2006 to present her talk.
In April 2005, Dr. Man Tran won the National ACP Abstract competition for his case of "Hepatic Hydrothorax without Ascites." Dr. Tran gave a PowerPoint presentation of this case at the National ACP convention in San Francisco. He was one of 20 national abstract winners that were chosen from 1,700 abstracts from 400 internal medicine residency programs.
