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| May 2024 Volume 7 | | |
| | | Lisa Gibbs, MD | | Greetings from a thriving and very busy UCI Department of Family Medicine!
After a very successful match, we look forward to welcoming our UCI Family Medicine Resident class of 2027 in July-10 new medical school graduates from across the country! From our own School of Medicine, five of UCI’s medical students have matched in Family Medicine programs, a testament to our own faculty who teach the depth and breadth of Family Medicine as we serve as role models and mentors to all medical students.
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| Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology | | The Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology continues to build upon our mission to: Discover. Teach. Heal., and meet the needs of Orange County’s growing older adult population.
The Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology and UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts were brought together by the Orange County Philharmonic to work with London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in January for the West Coast’s first demonstration of Strokestra. Patients and professional musicians participated in the interactive workshop using musical instruments for rehabilitation. Strokestra, created over 10 years ago by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, is designed to help stroke survivors improve movement and build confidence. The program was attended by students from UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts and faculty from the nursing and medical school.
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| If years had a theme, transition would be this one!
New ACGME requirements, a new program director, and a new associate program director. Both of our associate program directors welcomed new members to their family this year, all under the umbrella of a new chair of the department. While our bar for success was set at "don't let the residency explode," finding ourselves thriving now is a welcomed outcome, the responsibility of which can be clearly linked to the support of individuals like Lily, Mine, Chris, Matteo, Betzy, and Lisa.
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| FQHC News | | UCI Health Family Health Centers - Anaheim and Santa Ana |
| The UCI Health Family Health Center (FQHC) continues to expand care Orange County communities. For the fifth consecutive year, we have grown. In 2023, our annual Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Uniform Data Set (UDS) report identified we grew by ~1000 more unique patients, serving 27,927 individuals. Most of our patients continue to live within federally poverty levels; predominantly identify as Hispanic; and approximately two thirds of our patients served are children.
The UDS report also presents our clinical quality metrics which comprises both preventative and chronic disease measures. In reviewing these data, we surpassed the national and California benchmarks from 2022. This accomplishment could not have been done without the collaboration with numerous Schools (Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy), staff clinicians, and other care team members. In addition, the success has also been supported by the FQHC population health team. This team is composed of a health educator, MAs, and an RN. They proactively outreach patients who require follow up on various metrics and will closely monitor to ensure they have close follow up if indicated.
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| Medical Humanities | | Medical Humanities and Arts Program (MHAP) |
| The integration of art and care was a highlight of MHAP during the fall and winter of 2023-24. February Schwartz Rounds for Compassionate Care featured multiple Family Medicine faculty, clinicians, and residents sharing their work on Art and Healing.
Dr. Tan Nguyen discussed his work on engaging patients in poetry and drawing. Dr. Shannon Melcher, former UCI FM Resident and current Clinician at UCI Tustin, shared her art of quilting and its importance in connecting with family and friends as part of her wellness. Dr. Andrew Gallardo (FM, R2) shared how creating art was something that gave him and other residents a collaborative creative space, reminding them that they collectively were watching over patients and each other (the artwork in this month’s photo is Dr. Gallardo’s). Finally, Dr. Rajaram (palliative care) shared how poetry has supported him in navigating challenging moments throughout his career. It was a transformative moment to share the important role of art in medicine with the UCI Health community.
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| Medical Education | | Medical Education Updates |
| 2023-2024 has been an exciting year for education in the department. For the first time, our residents Drs. Anthony Nguyen and Sam Bell take parts in teaching first and second year medical students in the Clinical Foundation Course. Our faculty Dr. Jae Han continues to lead the training in Motivational Interviewing in collaboration with the School of Pharmacy. Dr. Tan Nguyen continues to teach the culinary medicine elective, and for the first time, collaborating with the University of Wisconsin Scholol of Medicine and UC San Diego School of Medicine to raise awareness of trauma informed care and food as medicine for the AANHPI Communities with a joint presentation in May 2024.
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| Sports Medicine | | The Primary Care Sports Medicine service continues to expand clinical services and community collaborations. Soon our Gottshalk Plaza clinics will migrate over to the new UCI Joe C. Wen Center for Advanced Care to be co-located in a multispecialty musculoskeletal space alongside the Departments of Orthopaedics and Pain Management. We continue to serve as team physicians for UCI Intercollegiate Athletics and several high schools in Orange County. Our partnership with AVP Beach Volleyball continues as well, providing medical coverage for Southern California tournaments.
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| The University of California, Irvine, Faculty Selected as 2024 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM) New Faculty Scholar | | Andrew Nobe, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor at University of California, Irvine, has been selected as a 2024 STFM New Faculty Scholar from the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM.) This highly competitive program recognizes outstanding leadership potential and a commitment to academic family medicine. The New Faculty Scholar Program, funded by the STFM Foundation, includes some of the best and brightest new faculty across from the country. Only 14 individuals were selected for 2024.
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| Congratulations to Drs. Lee, Mayorga and Rodriguez for receiving the COHS Clinical Team Research Award through the COHS Faculty Assembly! | | Congratulations Drs. Joyce Lee, José Mayorga, and Vanessa Rodriguez for receiving the COHS Clinical Team Research Award – great representation of the three schools, School of Medicine, Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences.
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| |  | | | | The Department of Family Medicine had another successful match. We welcome our new Residents and congratulate the Class of 2027!
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| | | Support Family Medicine & Geriatrics |
| Support UCI Family Medicine & Geriatrics!
UCI Family Medicine is proud to be among the first residency programs to train family physicians in the nation, established in 1969. Our residency has trained more than 450 family physicians over 54 years through the dedication of countless faculty, staff, and trainees. Our graduates are outstanding community-based family physicians, teachers, and leaders, who care for patients, families, and communities in California and beyond.
Our department is home to faculty, residents, and staff who exude passion for patient care, medical education, scholarship, outreach, and community health. We are committed to delivering exemplary clinical care, teaching, and scholarship. We practice and teach full-scope family medicine from pre-conception to end-of-life care. We are dedicated to promoting health equity, especially for people and groups that are disadvantaged.
We hope you will consider a gift to one of the following:
• Pipeline Programs to recruit and support students and residents from groups that are under-represented in medicine (URiM)
• Residency Program in solidarity with UCI Family Medicine residents
• Geriatric Medicine to support our Geriatric Fellows and outreach to prevent elder abuse
We welcome your contributions to our never-ending quest to promote health for all.
UCI Family Medicine Donate Here
UCI Geriatrics Donate Here
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UCI Department of Family Medicine
| 200 South Manchester, Suite 835, Orange, CA 92868
Phone: 714-456-8265 | www.familymed.uci.edu
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