Introducing guest blogger Mike Pistoria, DO, FACP
Editor’s Note: Hello Residency Manager Blog readers! I’d like to introduce you to our first guest blogger, Mike Pistoria, DO, FACP. His blog entries will appear on the third or fourth Thursday of every month, so look out for his posts! Now, without further ado, I turn it over to Dr. Pistoria. . .
Is this thing on? (tap, tap) Sorry, wrong medium! Well, hello out there! This is my first attempt at blogging, so cut me some slack for these initial posts…
My name is Mike Pistoria and I work at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Lehigh Valley (LVH) is an integrated health network with three clinical campuses, two of which are inpatient and the third housing mostly outpatient services. Between our two inpatient campuses (totaling almost 1000 beds) and our larger campus (about 800 beds) is a tertiary care referral center with all of the bells and whistles one would expect.
I work in a number of roles at LVH, but the three that consume most of my time at this point are clinician-educator, associate program director for our 48-resident internal medicine residency program, and associate chief for inpatient medicine in our Division of General Internal Medicine. In those roles, I have a fairly broad exposure to the educational, financial, and efficiency issues we all face.
I will write about various residency issues in this blog, including some (hopefully) good stuff about the interface between residency and hospitalist programs, and the changing nature of residency education, including the increasing focus on teamwork, efficiency, and quality.
I’ll leave you with two buzzwords for this post-portfolios and milestones. I’m guessing most of you have heard of both of these and their growing importance in residency education. These were hot topics at the recent Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine Week in Orlando, and if you’re not familiar with them already, you will be in the near future.
There are many interpretations of their definitions, so I thought I would share mine with you.
When we discuss milestones, we are talking about a resident’s growth. Think about the particular competencies a PGY-1 resident should attain by the end of the PGY-1 year, what additional competencies a PGY-2 needs before moving onto the PGY-3 level, and so on.
Portfolios are a seemingly simple means of documenting how and when a resident attains those competencies. This can range from the simple (procedure logs) to the more complex and less comfortable (journaling about one’s experiences to help document the ACGME’s six general competencies).
That’s all for the first post! I’d greatly appreciate any feedback and/or suggestions for future entries. I want this to be fun and informative, so I will happily gear this toward topics everyone feels warrant discussion. Have a great day and a great Thanksgiving!!
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Michael Pistoria, DO, FACP
Michael Pistoria, DO, FACP is associate program director for internal medicine at Lehigh Valley Hospital (LVH) in Allentown, PA. He received his BS in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University, and his DO degree from the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Pistoria is a charter member of the Society of Hospital Medicine, has served on the Education Committee since 2000 and has presented nationally regarding hospitalists and medical education. He completed his residency training, including a chief resident year, at LVH and joined the staff there as a hospitalist in 1999.Michael has written 3 posts.
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Welcome, Mike! I really enjoyed your first post!
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