HEMATOLOGY/ONCOLOGY
Contact:
PJ Flynn
Minnesota Oncology Hematology, P.A.
Virginia Piper Cancer Institute
800 E. 28th Street, Suite #405
Minneapolis, MN 55407
612-863-8585
Subspecialty
clinic: MOHPA clinic on Tuesday and Thursday mornings
Resident
continuity clinic: Monday AM, a three week minimum notice, given to Anne
is required if you are planning on taking vacation time.
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AM |
PM |
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Monday |
Medicine Clinic |
ANW Consults |
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Tuesday |
MOHPA clinic |
ANW Consults |
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Wednesday |
Grand Rounds |
ANW Consults |
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Thursday |
MOHPA clinic |
ANW Consults |
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Friday |
ANW Consults |
ANW Consults |
Specialty
Conference: Each resident is expected to present one case at Lung Cancer
Conference during the rotation.
Performance
Expectations and Educational Goals and Objectives:
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Educational
objectives |
Assessment
method |
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Patient
Care |
1)
Hospital and clinic consults and follow up visits will be performed, staffed,
and documented in Excellian with appropriate language by the resident 2)
Understand risk assessment and choose appropriate testing (including
indications, contraindications, and benefits of peripheral smear, bone marrow
biopsy and other tissue biopsies, bone marrow transplantation) 3)
Demonstrate understanding of tumor staging |
1)
Global faculty assessment 2)
Direct faculty bedside observation |
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Medical
Knowledge |
1)
Review core topics noted below using patient care and didactic opportunities
and supplement with independent reading 2)
Present a case at Lung Cancer Conference during the rotation 3)
Demonstrate competence in interpretation of blood smears |
1)
Global faculty assessment 2)
On-line blood smear test |
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Practice-Based
Learning and Improvement |
1)
Demonstrate insight into knowledge deficiencies and limitations 2)
Use information technology to answer clinical questions |
Global
faculty assessment |
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Interpersonal
and Communication Skills |
1)
Refine the skills necessary to present patients and topics informally and
formally to another physician or group |
Global
faculty assessment |
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Professionalism |
1)
The resident is expected to perform up to 4 consults per day, with no new
consults started after 4 PM 2)
Follow up on previously seen patients and write follow up notes if in the
hospital that day |
Global
faculty assessment |
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Systems-Based
Practice |
1)
Understand systems unique to this subspecialty 2)
Understand general principles of study cooperatives |
Global
faculty assessment |
Core
topics to be covered by patient care, didactic lectures, and independent
reading include the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of:
Stem cell disorders
Anemia and polycythemia
Leukopenia and lykocytosis
Thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis
Hemostasis disorders (bleeding and throbophilia)
Growth factors
Presentation, diagnosis, staging and treatment of malignancies including leukemia,
lymphoma, breast cancer, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, testicular cancer,
prostate cancer, head and neck cancer, lung cancer, colon cancer, etc.
Hypercalcemia
SVC syndrome
Bone, brain, lung, liver, and pleural metastases
Spinal cord compression
Other topics include the indications contraindications and benefits of
peripheral smear, bone marrow biopsy, bone marrrow transplantation, and
biopsies
Procedures: none
Past resident recommendations: Each week you will work with a different oncologist who covers the majority of the inpatient consults. He or she may or may not have significant clinic duties, and there are days that your attending may not arrive to start staffing till pretty late in the afternoon- you probably should not have lots of evening plans this block. (It is a good block to do lots of moonlighting). The teaching is good, though, and they are all very nice to work with.