New Osteopathic Residency Programs

NYCOMEC is pleased to announce that the AOA has approved three NYCOM-sponsored residency training programs in Family Practice, Internal Medicine and OMM at Southampton Hospital in Southampton, New York. NYCOM Alums Shawn Cannon, D.O., Daniel Van Arsdale, D.O. and Stephen Braun, D.O. will serve as Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency, Family Practice Residency, and OMM Residency respectively. Dr. Cannon is also the Director of Medical Education at Southampton Hospital.

Southampton Hospital is located approximately 70 miles east of NYCOM on the beautiful South Fork of Long Island. Southampton Hospital contains 125 beds, including six-ICU beds. Annually, it has approximately 6,500 admissions, 1,000 births, and 2,500 emergency room visits. Family medicine is available in Southampton and East Hampton. The hospital supports full-time physicians in the emergency department, radiology department and hospitalists in internal medicine.

New Osteopathic Fellowship

NYCOMEC is pleased to announce that the AOA has approved a new NYCOM-sponsored Palliative Care Fellowship at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Jamaica, New York. NYCOM alum, Alan Roth, D.O. is both Program Director and Director of Medical Education at Jamaica.

Established in 1891, in a four-bedroom home in Queens, Jamaica Hospital Medical Center today is a 387-bed voluntary teaching facility. The hospital was totally renovated in 1989 and recent additions include: a fifty-bed psychiatric inpatient unit, a psychiatric emergency department, an extensive new ambulatory care facility, a new labor, delivery and recovery suite and the James and Sarah Brady Institute for Traumatic Brain Injury.

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center's family medicine and community medicine residency program are AOA and ACGME dually accredited programs designed to train physicians who will be capable of providing comprehensive, state-of-the-art medical care to all members of the family unit in an inner-city setting. The program places emphasis on the behavioral sciences and the concept of continuity of care; thus, the psychosocial impact on health is stressed and the principles of preventative medicine and health maintenance are considered to be of paramount importance within the educaitonal framework of the program.

NYCOMEC's 7th Annual Intern/Resident Scientific Research Poster Competition was held on May 9, 2008, in the NYIT Athletic Hall of Fame. Posters were judged in two categories, Case Presentation and Experimental Research. This year NYCOMEC residents submitted a total of 22 posters. NYCOM's David Elkowoitz, D.O., David Yens, Ph.D. and Kurt Amsler, Ph.D. served as judges along with Fredric Weinbaum, M.D. from Southampton Hospital. The winners were:

Case Presentation

• 1st Place - $350:  Michael Kelly, D.O., Emergency Medicine Resident, Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center for "Lethal Sciatica."
• 2nd Place - DVD Player:  Christopher Hill, D.O., Emergency Medicine Resident, Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center for "Rare Case of a Blue Baby."
• 3rd Place - Honorable Mention:  Michael Sabatino, D.O., Emergency Medicine Resident, Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center for "Intramural Duodenal Hematoma of Pancreatic Origin."

Experimental Research

• 1st Place - $500:  Travis Mellon, D.O., Emergency Medicine Resident, Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center for "D.O. Physician Assistants Administer and Prescribe Pain Medications Differently to Black Patients?"
• 2nd Place - IPOD:  Genevieve McGerald, D.O., Emergency Medicine Resident, Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center for "Prescriptions for Schedule II Opioids and Benezodiazepines Increase After the Introduction of Computer Generated Prescriptions."
• 3rd Place - Honorable Mention:  Daniel Salomonsky, D.O., Emergency Medicine Resident, St. Barnabas Hospital for "Nasal Carriage of Community Associated-MSRA by the Staff of a Large Urban Emergency Department ."

Winners of the 2008 NYCOMEC Research Poster Competition (L to R):Michael Sabatino, D.O., Christopher Hill, D.O., Michael Kelly, D.O., Travis Mellon, D.O., Genevieve McGerald, D.O., Daniel Salomonsky, D.O.

NYCOM National Hospital and Career Day 2008

NYCOMEC's Eighth Annual Grand Rounds

NYCOMEC's Eighth Annual Grands Rounds Program was held on Wednesday, December 12th at the DeSeversky Conference Center for NYCOMEC's interns, residents, attendings and faculty. The program was well received by both those attendees who participated in the program either in person or via live web-casting.

The morning practice management session started with lectures on "Physician Sensitivity & Malpractice: A Correlation" and "Attributes of Effective Teamwork" by Michael Schoppmann, J.D. and Akram Boutros, M.D., respectively.

After a holiday buffet lunch, the afternoon medical program began with keynote speaker Zahi Fayad, Ph.D., Director, Sinai Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute, who spoke on "Cardiovascular Risk Evaluation by Non-Invasive Imaging." Dr. Dayya presented "Environmental Health Exposures and Disease Controversies-Amalgams, Vaccines, Autoimmune Disease...". Dr. Foley and Ms. Brook spoke on Hospice and End-of-Life Care. The program concluded with NYCOM Alumnus, Lawrence Barnard, D.O.'s presentation on "Osteopathic Considerations in Chronic Pain and Central Sensitization." The program was enjoyed by all. A special thank you to Lynn Mark, D.O., NYCOMEC, for her effort in organizing this educational event.

NYCOMEC Faculty Development Program

Jill Anderson of Advanced Informatics participated in NYCOMEC's faculty development program on the E*Value web and PDA based electronic residency tracking software for hospitals on December 12, 2007. If you were unable to attend and would like more information on this topic, please contact the NYCOMEC office.

New Osteopathic Fellowship

NYCOMEC is pleased to announce that the AOA has approved a new NYCOM-sponsored Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Bronx, New York. This program has been approved for 2 positions. Successful completion of an AOA approved Surgery Residency is a pre-requisite for the program.

This program is in addition to other excellent osteopathic GME programs at St. Barnabas Hospital: Internship, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, NMM/OMM, General Surgery, Emergency Medicine and Diagnostic Radiology. Additional fellowships are in development.

Two New Osteopathic Fellowships

NYCOMEC is pleased to announce two new osteopathic fellowships:

Parker Jewish Institute for Healthcare and Rehabilitation has a new Hospice and Palliative Care Fellowship. Palliative care is the medical field that specializes in the relief of suffering and the achievement of best possible quality of life for patients with advanced illness and their families. This will be a one year fellowship open to D.O. graduates of releva