March 14, 2002
In Brief
“The Medicine of Lewis and Clark” will be the topic for the next Healthy U program at 7 p.m., Monday, March 18, at the downtown REI store. The free presentation features Dr. Ron Loge, an internist from Dillon, Mont., and a UW clinical associate professor of medicine.
This year’s March of Dimes WalkAmerica will be Saturday, April 13, beginning at Safeco Field. Walkers are needed to help raise funds to prevent premature births. The UW Medical Center’s Maternity and Infant Care Clinic already has formed a team and welcomes additional participants from the UW community. All team members will receive a T shirt to wear at the event. The team hopes to add enough participants to top last year’s total of 45. To register, call 598-4972 or send e-mail to uwmcmktg@u.washington.edu
A study done last year at the UW is the basis for one of four articles published this week in the Annals of Internal Medicine in a section on the causes and consequences of burnout in medical residents. In the UW study, 76 percent of the residents in the Department of Medicine who responded to the questionnaire reported the burnout symptoms of emotional detachment, exhaustion and low sense of personal accomplishment. Since the study was done in February 2001, the medicine program has increased efforts to control workloads for residents and established support groups, among other measures. The study was done by former UW internal medicine resident Dr. Tait Shanafelt, now at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, and Drs. Katharine Bradley, Joyce Wipf and Anthony Back of the VA Puget Sound Health Care System and the UW. Wipf is associate director of the Department of Medicine residency program.
