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DUKE SEMINAR in
SALZBURG
"Family Medicine"
September 3 – 9, 2017
Table of Contents
1. Faculty & Group Photo
2. Schedule
3. Faculty Biographies
4. Fellows Contact information
5. Diaries
a Program of the
Faculty Photo (L-R): Don Bradley, MD, MHS-CL; Cerrone Cohen, MD; Jonathan Jiménez, MD, MPH; J. Lloyd Michener, MD
Kathryn M. Andolsek, MD, MPH; Manfred Maier, MD
Group photo of Faculty and Fellows:
2017 Salzburg Duke Family Medicine Seminar Sunday September 3 – Saturday September 9 2017
Sunday
September 3 Monday
September 4 Tuesday
September 5 Wednesday September 6
Thursday September 7
Friday September 8
Saturday September 9
07:00 – 08:00 BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST BREAKFAST DEPARTURES
08:00 – 09:00 Introductions & Pre-
Seminar Test J. Lloyd Michener, MD
COPD: Diagnosis and
Treatment Jonathan Jimenez, MD
Diabetes: Diagnosis and
Treatment K. Andolsek & M. Maier
Depression: Diagnosis and
Treatment Cerrone Cohen, MD
Advanced Methods -
EHRs Lloyd Michener, MD
09:00 – 10:00 Family Medicine in
Europe Manfred Maier, MD
COPD: Improving Outcomes Jonathan Jimenez, MD
Diabetes: Improving Outcomes K. Andolsek & M. Maier
Depression: Improving Outcomes
Cerrone Cohen, MD
Advanced Methods – Practice Registries
Don Bradley, MD
10:00 – 10:30 COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK COFFEE BREAK
10:30 – 11:30
Methods of Quality
Improvement Don Bradley, MD
CHF: Diagnosis and
Treatment Cerrone Cohen, MD
Obesity: Diagnosis and
Treatment Don Bradley, MD
Hypertension: Diagnosis and
Treatment Kathy Andolsek, MD
Advanced Methods - Hotspotting
Lloyd Michener, MD
11:30 – 12:30 How to Present a Case
Manfred Maier, MD
CHF: Improving Outcomes
Cerrone Cohen, MD
Obesity: Improving Outcomes
Don Bradley, MD
Hypertension: Improving Outcomes
Kathy Andolsek, MD
Practical Playbook J. Lloyd Michener, MD
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH LUNCH
14:00 – 15:00
Workshop: Motivational Interviewing
Cohen & Bradley
Free Afternoon
Fellows’ Case Presentations
Workshop: Tobacco Control
Andolsek & Jimenez
Post-Seminar Test Evaluation & Discussion
15:00 – 16:00 Workshop:
Tobacco Control Andolsek & Jimenez
Workshop: Motivational Interviewing
Cohen & Bradley
Fellows’ Case Presentations
16:00 – 17:00 Fellows’ Case Presentations
Manfred Maier, MD
Workshop: Tobacco Control
Andolsek & Jimenez
Workshop: Motivational Interviewing
Cohen & Bradley
17:00 – 18:00 17:00-17:15 OMI/AAF
Presentation
18:00 – 19:00 Faculty Only Meeting to
Review the Week Farewell RECEPTION
19:00 – 20:00 19:00 – 19:30
Welcome RECEPTION
19:30 – 20:30
Welcome DINNER
DINNER DINNER
Faculty Dinner in Private Home
DINNER DINNER Graduation DINNER Certificates Awarded
20:00 – 21:00 20:30 – 21:30
Chamber Music CONCERT
DUKE SEMINAR in
SALZBURG
"Family Medicine"
September 3 – 9, 2017
FACULTY
Wolfgang Aulitzky, MD is the Medical Director of the American Austrian Foundation. He is Associate Dean for International Medicine and Distance Learning, Adjunct Prof. of Clinical Urology and Adjunct Prof. of Clinical Reproductive Medicine at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University/New York Presbyterian Hospital. In 2016, he was appointed Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics in the Associated Faculty of the Perelman School of Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is also Associate Prof. of Urology at the Medical University of Innsbruck and Visiting Professor at the Medical University of Vienna. Amongst others he is a member of the American, German and Austrian Societies of Urology and was awarded the Zuckerkandlpreis of the Austrian Society of Urology in 1989. In 1995 he received the Silver Medal, in 2007 the Golden Medal for Merits to the Republic of Austria and in 2014 the cross of honor of the Land Salzburg. As Director of the Medical Program of the American Austrian Foundation he has initiated the Open Medical Institute, a scientific and educational collaboration of Weill Cornell and the NewYork Presbyterian Hospital, the Children Hospital of Philadelphia, Duke University, Columbia University, the Cleveland Clinic and leading hospitals in Austria. Dr. Aulitzky earned his medical degree at the University of Innsbruck in 1977, was a research associate at the University of Uppsala, Sweden and the Rockefeller University, New York. He received his training as an urologist at the University of Innsbruck and the General Hospital of Salzburg. He is the author of more than 140 publications on Urology, Andrology and Health Care issues and is co-author of books on basic and clinical urology/andrology. Wolfgang Aulitzky, MD Director, Open Medical Institute American Austrian Foundation Gerhard Andlinger Professor and Associate Dean for International Medicine & Distance Learning Adjunct Professor of Clinical Urology Adjunct Professor of Clinical Reproductive Medicine Weill Medical College of Cornell University Associate Professor of Urology Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria Visiting Professor Medical University of Vienna Mailing address: Kärntner Straße 51/II/Top 4 1010 Vienna, Austria Phone: +43-1-533 8658 Fax: +43-1-533 8658-10 Email: [email protected]
J. Lloyd Michener, MD (Course Director) is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Community and Family Medicine. He has spent his entire professional career at the interface between communities and health systems, focusing on finding ways of making health care more effective (and often more cost effective) through teams, community engagement and practice redesign. His work has demonstrated that health outcomes can be improved and costs can often be reduced when health care is built on local strengths, and responds to local needs. Dr. Michener directs a national program for the “Practical Playbook” which facilitates the integration of Primary Care and Public Health, supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the de Beaumont Foundation. He also oversees the technical support service of “The BUILD Health Challenge”, a national competitive award program aimed at increasing the number and effectiveness of hospital, community, and public health collaborations that improve health, supported by the de Beaumont Foundation, The Advisory Board Company, the Kresge Foundation, The Colorado Health Care Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. He has overseen the Obesity/Chronic Disease Prevention Programs of the Kate B. Reynolds Trust, a program designed to lower chronic disease rates in low-income minority communities across North Carolina, and the obesity prevention programs of the North Carolina Health and Wellness Trust Fund. Dr. Michener has served as an advisor to the CDC/CMS Million Hearts program, and as a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee that led to the publication of “Primary Care and Public Health: Exploring Integration to Improve Population Health”. In addition, Dr. Michener has served as President of the Association for Prevention Teaching & Research, Chair of the Council of Academic Societies and as a member of the Board of the Association of Academic Medical Colleges, the Association of Departments of Family Medicine, and the National Patient Safety Foundation Board of Governors. He has also served as a member of the Council of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the NIH, the National Academic Affiliations Advisory Council of the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the North Carolina Institute of Medicine, and as co-chair of the Community Engagement Key Function Committee for the Clinical Translation Science Awards of the National Institutes of Health, and leader of the annual NIH-funded meeting on community engagement in research. Dr. Michener graduated from Oberlin College, received his MD from Harvard Medical School, and completed his family medicine residency and fellowship at Duke University Medical Center.
Notable professional awards and recognition have included Phi Beta Kappa (Oberlin), Mead Johnson Award for Graduate Education in Family Medicine (American Academy of Family Physicians), Kellogg Family Medicine Faculty Fellowship, Alpha Omega Alpha (Duke School of Medicine), and Duncan Clark Award (Association for Prevention Teaching and Research). J. Lloyd Michener, MD Professor and Chair Department of Community and Family Medicine Director, Duke Center for Community Research, DTMI Duke University Medical Center Box 2914, DUMC Durham, North Carolina 27710 USA Phone: +1-919-681-3178 Email: [email protected]
Manfred Maier, MD (Co-Course Director). After completion of his basic medical education at the Medical Faculty in Vienna in 1975, Dr. Maier started his vocational training to become a general practitioner. Since being licensed in 1979, he worked as a GP in his free time either together with his wife Elisabeth in her health care practice or for the emergency health care service in Vienna, Austria. Dr. Maier started his research activities during his vocational training where he conducted clinical studies. He joined the Institute of Medical Physiology at the Medical Faculty in Vienna in 1979 and spent a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston where he performed experimental studies in the field of renal hemodynamics using methods from biochemistry, immunology, physiology and molecular biology. In 1990, he was elected head of the newly formed special unit for General Practice at the Medical Faculty in Vienna. The institution became an independent department in 2001 and Dr. Maier was appointed professor and chairman in 2004; in the same year, the Department of General Practice together with 6 other Departments formed the new Center for Public Health at the Medical University of Vienna which Dr. Maier headed until 2012; up to his retirement in 2016 he served as deputy head. Dr. Maier is a member of several teaching and research organizations of WONCA and the “European Society for General Practice/Family Medicine” such as the EGPRN or EURACT and has been chairman of the scientific committee of the European conferences WONCA 2000 and 2012 in Vienna. Dr. Maier is married and has two children. Manfred Maier, MD Univ. Prof. Dr. Manfred Maier Department of General Practice at the Center for Public Health Vienna Medical University Kinderspitalgasse 15 1090 Vienna Austria Phone: +43-1-40160-34601 Fax: +43-1-40160-934600 E-Mail: [email protected]
Kathryn M. Andolsek, MD, MPH is currently a Professor with tenure in the Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, and assistant Dean of Premedical Education. She holds a joint appointment in the Duke School of Nursing and an adjunct appointment at the University Of North Carolina School Of Public Health. Born in Washington, DC, she holds Bachelor of Science and medical degrees and a master of public health from Northwestern University (Evanston, and Chicago Illinois). Following her Family Medicine residency at Duke, she worked in a National Health Service Corps Community Health Center in Chicago where she served a year as a residency education director at a community hospital Family Medicine Residency. She returned to Duke where she was Family Medicine residency director for over 14 years. She was the founding physician member of Duke’s “new” Division of Community Health in 1998 and still works in population health. She served in many roles: Family Medicine Division Chief, associate director of GME, and interim associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education. She has authored books, book chapters, manuscripts. She developed national curricular resources on resident well-being, funded in part by the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation. Most recently she has worked with the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (which accredits all US and some international residency programs) on guidelines for Clinical Competency Committees and harmonizing milestones across specialties. She has contributed to GME nationally and internationally in Singapore, Canada, and the UAE. She served as the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) course director for the Designated Institutional Official/Graduate Medical Education Leadership Course from 2007-2013 and is the current chair of the AAMC Group on Residency Affairs Steering Committee. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education. Her latest role has been to lead a team in the design and implementation of a new interprofessional masters’ degree: The Duke Master of Biomedical Sciences to prepare students for medical, dental and other health professions schools. She continues to learn best from her children: a national board of education certified grade school music teacher, an actor, an innovations consultant, and an Orthopaedic resident. Kathryn Marijoan Andolsek, MD MPH Professor of Commuinty and Family Medicine Duke University School of Medicine 0159 Orange Zone Duke South Clinics 201 Trent Drive Durham, North Carolina, USA Phone: +1-919-668-3883 Fax: +1-919-681-0720 Email: [email protected]
Don Bradley, MD, MHS-CL is an Associate Consulting Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine at Duke, and serves as Executive Director for The Practical Playbook (www.PracticalPlaybook.org). He did his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia, graduated from the Medical College of Virginia (Virginia Commonwealth University Health Sciences Division), and completed a Family Medicine Residency in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He has also completed a Kellogg Fellowship in Family Medicine and a Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Leadership at Duke. He practiced Family Medicine in a rural Virginia town before joining the Faculty at the Duke Watts Family Medicine Residency where he directed the clinical operations of the residency’s large academic Family Medicine practice. In 1988, he moved to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) where he served in a number of roles, including Executive Director for BCBSNC’s federally qualified Health Maintenance Organization, Senior Vice President for Healthcare, and Chief Medical Officer. He retired from BCBSNC in 2014 and returned to Duke Community and Family Medicine to teach health policy and health systems; and to direct the Practical Playbook, a project which works to integrate primary care and public health to improve population health through robust collaboration. Dr. Bradley continues his work in the National Academy of Medicine Health and Medicine Division (formerly Institute of Medicine) Roundtable on Obesity Solutions; and serves as chair of the Roundtable’s Innovation Collaborative workgroup for Interdisciplinary Provider Training and Education for obesity competencies. He also serves as a founding member of the North Carolina Healthcare Quality Alliance, and recently completed a term as public member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Board of Directors. His interests at Duke include development of population health competencies, curricula, and tools; prevention and management of obesity; health systems, policy, finance and transformation; and leadership development. Don Bradley, MD, MHS-CL Associate Consulting Professor, Community and Family Medicine Duke University School of Medicine DUMC 2914 Hanes House 336 Durham, North Carolina 27710 USA Phone: +1 919 681 3184 Email: [email protected]
Cerrone Cohen, MD currently serves as a faculty member in both the department of Community & Family Medicine and the department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Duke University. In his shared role, he provides both outpatient primary care and mental health services in multiple clinic settings. He specializes in the interface between physical care and mental health care. He has presented on psychosomatic medicine topics at multiple conferences and has published in the field of preventative care as it pertains to psychiatric patients. One of Dr. Cohen’s main interests is in medical education. He has been recognized on multiple occasions for his teaching, and most recently was recognized by family medicine trainees at Duke as the outstanding teacher of the year in 2017. He currently coordinates the behavioral health curriculum for the Duke family medicine residency program and also provides teaching in the Duke physician assistant and psychiatry residency programs. Prior to coming to Duke, Dr. Cohen completed a combined residency in family medicine and psychiatry at the University of California Davis, where he served as chief resident in his final year. He holds a doctorate in medicine from the Medical University of South Carolina and a bachelor’s of science in Human Sciences from Florida State University. Dr. Cohen is a diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Cerrone Cohen, MD Medical Instructor in Family Medicine and Psychiatry Duke University Duke Family Medicine Box 3886 DUMC Durham, NC 27710 USA Phone: +1-919-684-6721 Fax: +1-919-668-1785 Email: [email protected]
Jonathan Jiménez, MD, MPH is a family physician completing his residency at Duke Family Medicine. Dr. Jiménez was born in Queens, New York City and grew up in central Florida. He completed his undergraduate studies in economics at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. After working in a Queens primary care clinic for one year, he studied medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He also completed a Master’s in Public Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Jiménez has been a national coach from Primary Care Progress, a non-profit advocating for and facilitating the revitalization of primary care in the United States, and he is on the steering committee for the Right Care Alliance, a grassroots movement to transform healthcare in the United States. Dr. Jiménez is part of the Pisacano Scholars Leadership Program designed to develop future leaders in family medicine. He has a particular interest in public and community health and community organizing. Jonathan Jiménez, MD, MPH Resident Physician Duke University School of Medicine Duke University Hospital 2301 Erwin Road Durham, NC 27701 USA Phone: +1-919-684-8111 Email: [email protected]
DUKE SEMINAR in
SALZBURG
"Family Medicine"
September 3 – 9, 2017
FELLOWS
Elizabeta Deanoska, MD BulgariaGeneral Practitioner Medical University15A, Vassil Aprilov, Str.4000 Plovdiv, BulgariaPhone: +35-9-893819055Email 1: [email protected]
Hristo Dipchikov, MD BulgariaResident Outpatient General Practice Clinic Dr Tania DipchikovaDepartment of Family MedicineBulgaria blvd. 1944003 Plovdiv, BulgariaPhone: +35-9-883472997Email 1: [email protected]
Laura Duisenbiyeva, MD KazakhstanGeneral Practitioner MC "Mediker"Department of Family MedicineNavoi 310050000 Almaty, KazakhstanPhone: +77-2-73111765Email 1: [email protected]
Emmanuela Fernandova, MD Czech RepublicTeaching/research/clinical Assistant, General Practitioner Medical Faculty Masaryk UniversityDepartment of Family MedicineKamenice 562500 Brno, Czech RepublicPhone: +42-0-775611651Email 1: [email protected]
Maria Garabajiu, MD Moldova, Republic ofTeaching/research/clinical Assistant, General Practitioner State Institute of Medicine and Pharmacy "NicolaeTestemitanu"Department of Internal MedicineTestemitanu29/12025 Chisinau, Moldova, Republic ofPhone: +37379976903Email 1: [email protected]
Alfredo Gutierrez, MD MexicoProfessor, Chief of Service Instituto Nacional de Perinatologia "Isidro Espinoza delos Reyes"Montes Urales 800,11000 Mexico City, MexicoPhone: +52-1-55209900Email 1: [email protected]
Hranush Hovhannisyan, MD ArmeniaResident Yerevan State Medical universityDepartment of Family MedicineStr. Koryun 20025 Yerevan, ArmeniaPhone: +37-4-60565394Email 1: [email protected]
Javad Jabarov, MD AzerbaijanInstructor, Staff Physician Central Customs HospitalDepartment of Emergency Medicine118, K. Kazimzade1065 Baku, AzerbaijanPhone: +99-4-125370193Fax: +99-4-125108690Email 1: [email protected]
Dagmara Kazlauskiene, MD LithuaniaGeneral Practitioner Baltic - American ClinicNemencines pl. 54 A10103 Vilnius, LithuaniaPhone: +37-0-52342020Email 1: [email protected]
Yuliia Klitsunova, MD, PhD UkraineAssociate Professor, Associate Attending Physician State Institution "Zaporizhzhia Medical Academy ofPostgraduate Education of Ministry of Health of UkraineDepartment of Internal Medicine1, Schastlyva str.69065 Zaporizhzhya, UkrainePhone: +38-0-634308511Fax: +38-0-612835499Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]
Agim Krasniqi, MD KosovoInstructor, Chief Executive Officer Main Center of Family MedicineDepartment of Family MedicineTahir Sinani14000 Lipjan, KosovoPhone: +38-1-38581178, +377-443-45145Fax: +38-1-38581178Email 1: [email protected]
Jiri Krejcik, MD Czech RepublicGeneral Practitioner Praktik & Prevence s.r.o.Department of Family MedicineStudentska 459101 Zdar nad Sazavou, Czech RepublicPhone: +42-0-773541434Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]
Matobogolo Masalu, MD Tanzania, United RepublicofInstructor, Attending Physician University of DodomaDepartment of Internal MedicineUdom255 Dodoma, Tanzania, United Republic ofPhone: +25-5-754539787Email 1: [email protected]
Rosalba Mendoza Rivera, MD MexicoTeaching/research/clinical Assistant, Chief of Service IMSSDepartment of Family MedicinePedro Mora Beristain sin numero91000 Xalapa, MexicoPhone: +52-2-288170565Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]
Maria Moreira, MD PortugalTeaching/research/clinical Assistant, Attending Physician USF Santo AntonioDepartment of Family MedicineCampo 25 Abril4750-127 Barcelos, PortugalPhone: +35-1-916252715Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]
Dennis Mpisi, MD Tanzania, United Republic ofGeneral Practitioner Occupational Health and Safety Authority TanzaniaKinondoni255 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, United Republic ofPhone: +25-5-716938134Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]
Charisma Msoffe, MD, MPH Tanzania, UnitedRepublic ofTeaching/research/clinical Assistant, Specialist Bugando Medical CentreDepartment of Internal MedicineBugando1370 Mwaza, Tanzania, United Republic ofPhone: +25-5-25406105Fax: +25-5-0282500799Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]
Natia Papiashvili, MD GeorgiaGeneral Practitioner Simon Khechinash Vili University HospitalDepartment of Family MedicineNo. 33 Chavchavadze Ave.0179 Tbilisi, GeorgiaPhone: +99-5-32-214400Fax: +99-5-32-227523Email 1: [email protected]
Justyna Samoder, MD PolandSpecialist Healthcare Family Practice ClinicChoragwi Pancernej 5002-951 Warsaw, PolandPhone: +48-2-28580101Email 1: [email protected]
Tatjana Scepanovic, MD MontenegroResident Dom zdravlja Bijelo PoljeVoja LJesnjaka84000 Bijelo Polje, MontenegroPhone: +38-2-63236446Email 1: [email protected]
Ina Shehaj, MD Albania University of Medicine TiraneEdibres1005 Tirane, AlbaniaPhone: +35-5-5695267198Email 1: [email protected]
Masud Somoni, MD TajikistanTeaching/research/clinical Assistant, General Practitioner Avicenna Tajik State Medical UniversityRudaki avenue 39734000 Dushanbe, TajikistanPhone: +99-2-905888880Email 1: [email protected]
Ann Urmet, MD EstoniaGeneral Practitioner Tabasalu Family Medicine centreDepartment of Family MedicineTeenuste 276901 Tabasalu, EstoniaPhone: +372607 6362Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]
Syuzanna Voskanyan, MD ArmeniaGeneral Practitioner Armenian Canadian ClinicDepartment of Family MedicineArmenakyan 129, Nork-Marash0014 Yerevan, ArmeniaPhone: +37-4-10650717Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]
Samrawit Woldemichael, MD EthiopiaGeneral Practitioner MCM Referal HospitalDepartment of Internal MedicineGerji251 Addis Abeba, EthiopiaPhone: +25-1-116295431Email 1: [email protected]
Maxim Yeremeyev, MD KazakhstanInstructor, Specialist International SOS KazakhstanDepartment of Emergency MedicineGornaya 1b50051 Almaty, KazakhstanPhone: +77-2-72581912Email 1: [email protected]
Svetlana Zubkova, MD Russian FederationTeaching/research/clinical Associate, Division Chief Izhevsk State Medical AcademyDepartment of Internal MedicineKommunarov, 281426034 Izhevsk, Russian FederationPhone: +73-4-12682909Fax: +73-4-12682909Email 1: [email protected] 2: [email protected]
• 27 fellows from 20 different countries and regions • 6 faculty members from the United States and Austria • 21 lectures and workshops given by faculty • 22 interesting cases presented by fellows • 8 cases selected by faculty to be published in the Online Case Library
This week at Schloss Arenberg the Salzburg Open Medical Institute was pleased to host faculty from Duke University, with which we share one of our longest-standing relationships. The OMI was fortunate enough to welcome chairman of family medicine at Duke and OMI-veteran Dr. Lloyd Michener back for his 15th session as course director, who was complemented by co-course director and Austrian native, Dr. Manfred Maier, for his 14th visit. Although instructing for their respective 5th and 6th times here with the OMI, Dr. Kathryn Andolsek and Dr. Don Bradley had not been back for at least a decade, and their return was a real treat. Lastly, the OMI was grateful to have Dr. Cerrone Cohen and Dr. Jonathan Jiménez for their first visits and contributions.
The week began with a welcome reception and dinner, during which the Duke faculty introduced themselves to the fellows, and the fellows mingled amongst themselves. The week saw a number of topics come in pairs: the first focusing on diagnosis and treatment, and the second focusing on improving outcomes. Topics such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure, diabetes, obesity, depression, and hypertension followed this structure. Fellows also learned about current, advanced methods that some healthcare providers are pioneering, like electronic health registries and hotspotting, which facilitates more efficient and effective medical intervention through data analysis.
One unique part of the week was the afternoon workshop rotation. Normally, afternoons are reserved entirely for fellows to present their own original cases to the entire group. However, this week fellows were split into three groups, with each group participating in a different work shop each day. Drs. Andolsek and Jiménez presented on tobacco control—an issue that is even more relevant in lesser-developed countries. Citing it ubiquitously in their comments on the course, fellows found the rotation on motivational interviewing with Dr. Cohen and Dr. Bradley of immense value. The third rotation was fellows’ chance to present their own original cases to course directors Dr. Michener and Dr. Maier, of which eight received recognition and recommendation for publishing to the online library. Another idiosyncrasy of this seminar was the half day. The schedule was modified on Monday, changing Tuesday to the half day, so as to give the group the opportunity to enjoy Salzburg on one of its last sunny days.
Friday was a relatively short day for the group, with only the post-seminar test and debriefing taking place after lunch. The fellows had plenty of time to spend time together before the graduation dinner that night, which took place on the third floor of Schloss Arenberg. All were pleased to see how well the fellows engaged their peers, the faculty, and the material. The Open Medical Institute hopes to invite some of these motivated physicians back for another seminar. Similarly, the American Austrian Foundation values its long-standing relationship with Duke University, and looks forward to hosting their qualified doctors within our walls once again.
SALZBURG DUKE SEMINAR FAMILY MEDICINE September 3 – 9, 2017