NCH Newsletter 10-21-20.final

October 2020 | Issue 1

GME

Graduate Medical Education | NHC Healthcare System

INTRODUCING GME + NCH:
OUR NEWSLETTER
GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION (GME) was
Dr. Hermes Koop, MD
Designated Institutional Official (DIO) brought to the NCH Healthcare System with two main goals in mind.
First, to raise the overall quality of care that teaching and education
WELCOME to the first newsletter provides to an institution. Second, to train and hopefully retain those
high-quality physicians in our communities.
designed to inform and update our
community on the growth and A lot is happening with GME at NCH and we want to let you know!
developments in Graduate Medical
Education (GME) at the NCH • On June 13, 2020 we graduated the first class of 12 residents
Healthcare System. It was six years
ago, in October 2014, that NCH who completed our 3-year Internal Medicine categorical residency
officially formed a steering committee program. Four residents entered fellowships, four are hospitalists,
to begin the process of establishing two are primary care physicians and two are current chief
graduate medical education and residents in our program.
academic medicine at NCH. The
growth and impact to the culture of • Starting July 1, 2021 the Internal Medicine residency program will
our institutions has been significant.
The success has been achieved with expand to 16 residents per year. With this expansion we will begin
the strong support of the NCH a resident ward team at NCH North Naples Hospital and we also
leadership team including Mr. Phil hope to begin an outpatient resident continuity clinic in that area.
Dutcher, Dr. Kristen Mascotti, Mr.
Paul Hiltz, Mr. Scott Lutgert and the • A Transitional Year residency program will begin on July 1, 2021
entire NCH Board of Trustees. There
is great opportunity for everyone in when we welcome 6 residents to begin the one-year training
our area to benefit from the program. These are residents who will then go onto the "ADNOR”
programs and learning environment programs (Anesthesiology, Dermatology, Neurology,
that GME creates in our institutions. Ophthalmology and Radiology).
Through this newsletter we want to
inform the community about the • This summer the GME department at NCH renewed its affiliation
opportunities and the successes of
GME at NCH. with the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. This
relationship has been extremely beneficial for our programs

THE BOARD RESULTS ARE IN:

CONGRATULATIONS, WELL DONE!

CLASS OF 2020 RESULTS:

100% PASS RATE

Teng Hui, MD – Passed board exam
Eric Micallef, MD – Passed board exam
Lesly Silva, MD – Passed board exam
Julia Skettini, DO– Passed board exam
Jared Schprechman, MD – Passed board exam

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WHAT’S HAPPENING

especially in terms of curriculum NCH is in the process of
development, accreditation, operational
guidance, policies and procedures and designing, constructing and
knowledge sharing. opening a multidisciplinary
Simulation Center on the
• We are affiliated with the Mayo Clinic downtown NCH campus. It is
anticipated the center will
Alix School of Medicine and with the be open and available for a
University of Central Florida College of wide range of learners
Medicine and will be regularly training including medical students, Doug Harrington, MD
their medical students in our system. residents, nursing students,
nurses, physicians, and allied health providers
• Our residencies are fully accredited by along with ancillary staff. Opening is targeted for
February-March 2021. The Simulation Center
the ACGME. Earlier this year we will initially be housed in the Plaza building. It
successfully completed our first CLER will have approximately 8,000 square feet
visit by the ACGME. The CLER (Clinical available for both task training and scenario
Learning Environment Review) program was training as well as traditional classrooms and
established to provide feedback to hospital debriefing rooms. Simulation medicine is an
executive and GME leadership about the clinical experiential learning process, in which learners
learning environment in the institution, focusing on participate in a scenario or task with
6 areas: Patient safety, healthcare quality, care subsequent debriefing. Simulation medicine has
transitions/teaming, supervision, wellbeing and been shown to have up to a 90% learning
professionalism. retention rate. The simulation center will initially
focus on the needs of the health care team
• Our Grand Rounds every Thursday morning from members that work at both NCH hospital
campuses. The simulation center will then reach
7:30 AM to 8:30 AM present a wide range of out to community physicians, schools, police,
medical topics by leading experts. Everyone is the EMS, firefighters and the general community
invited, live or by WebEx, and continuing education in the future.
credits are offered.

• This fall we will be conducting all applicant

interviews, for our residency programs, virtually.

Please see the NCH website and social media for
much information about the details of our programs.

• Approximately 70 NCH-affiliated physicians are

currently teaching residents and medical students
in our system.

• We have exciting developments in the areas of

Research and Simulation. Please see the additional
sections in this newsletter regarding the latest
information in these areas.

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AIM CLINIC AIMS TO DELIVER
OUTSTANDING CARE

The Academic Internal Medicine Clinic celebrated its

fourth anniversary this past July. Our clinic is a

traditional primary care clinic. We see patients for

Academic Internal routine physicals, urgent care visits, hospital follow ups
Medicine Clinic
and management of chronic conditions. The clinic is
Medical Plaza Building
311 9th St N #300 primarily staffed by our resident physicians with
Naples, FL 34102
supervision by board-certified NPG Internal Medicine
PHONE:
(239) 624-0940 attendings. Every patient is seen by both a resident Tracy Walsh, MD

HOURS: and an attending physician with the goal of providing
Monday - Friday
8:30am to 4:30pm comprehensive, compassionate, and evidence-based care. We are

fortunate to have a talented and varied group of attending physicians who

supervise in our clinic including Dr. James Bernene (board-certified in

Endocrinology & Internal Medicine), Dr. Greg Rubin (board certified in

Sports medicine & Internal Medicine) and Dr. Mark Speake (board-

certified in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics). Nearly 93% of patients

surveyed in our clinic said that they felt the provider listened and 90% felt

they got enough information regarding their treatment plan. Nationally,

the average for these metrics is only 81.7% and 75.5% respectively.

We are accepting new patients and offer same day or next day
appointments if needed. We are also able to accommodate urgent care
visits for NCH employees. We are located in Suite #300 in the Medical
Plaza Building. Our office phone number is (239) 624-0940. We hope to
see you soon!

Graduate Medical Education Program

311 9th Street North, Suite 201 | Naples, FL 34102
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