Thank you, residents and interns, for all you do for one another and for your patients. Though often under-appreciated, your work does not go unnoticed.
Help us highlight the kindness, clinical judgement, resourcefulness, and work ethic.
Nominate a resident/intern for Housestaff of the month or just share something good.
July 2023 Inpatient Resident of the Month
Rachana Raghupathy
“Absolutely fantastic new senior for a busy service. She lead the team through many stressful call days making sure that everyone was supported and heard. She was fabulous with us cointerns answering questions patiently, filling in knowledge gaps where applicable and generally making our firm lives as efficient as possible. She kept morale high with many tasty snacks, her kind approach and easy-going nature. Not only was she great with us interns she was wonderful with the med students. Teaching appropriately to their level and encouraging them to participate and empowered to come up with plans. 10/10 no notes. “
”She truly is an excellent physician and teacher. She takes the time to run management plans and teach the interns while also providing compassionate patient-centered care. No matter how difficult the day becomes, she always puts her best foot forward to provide the best care to her patients while also teaching and leading the team of interns and medical students.”
July 2023 Inpatient Intern of the Month
Nina Manian
“If skipping a grade was a thing in medicine residency, I would nominate Dr. Manian. She far excelled my expectation in every area. She portrayed outstanding knowledge and understanding of disease and illnesses. Her work attitude was superb. She was proactive in taking ownership of her patients and communicating with families at an extremely high and professional level. She knew her patients extremely well and was thorough and paid attention to detail. She navigated challenging social situations with poise and effectively. She will be a phenomenal resident and physician and WashU is lucky to have her.”
”Nina was an amazing intern at the VA! She worked so hard to build report with her patients and there families. She was extremely keen on recognizing patient needs both inside and outside the hospital. She impressed everyone on our team!”
July 2023 Outpatient Resident of the Month
Clay Davis
“Clay has done a great job managing multiple medically complex patients with urgent issues on AMBJAR. He saw a patient on AMBJAR with profound acute diarrhea who had already been seen at an ED with significant colitis on CT, but unfortunately had left AMA without admission. He expertly triaged the severity of illness, decided the patient could undergo outpatient work-up, took a great history for risk factor identification and sent a broad infectious diarrhea work-up that ultimately led to the diagnosis of giardia! He got the patient the treatment he needed in a timely manner and deserves recognition for outpatient resident of the month.”
July 2023 Outpatient Intern of the Month
Rosie Quinn
“I am nominating Dr. Quinn for not only managing well a last patient of the day, IOV, non-English speaking patient for which there was no readily available interpreter as patient spoke a rare dialect. This patient had not one but two serious medical issues that needed to be addressed immediately. Dr. Quinn was thorough, kind and level-headed. In addition, she followed up with the provider who would be seeing the patient the next day to complete the care plan she had outlined. Her care resulted in a meaningful second visit and definitely made a huge impact on this patient’s care and overall access to the medical system.”
Kudos
Dr. Rubeiz went to extraordinary lengths to ensure that out mutual patient (a longterm patient of mine) – ESRD, on PD, complicated cardiac hx, on warfarin for mechanical valve, previous CVA, now with concern for GI bleed – was admitted to BJH to allow for heparin bridge and then EGD and colonoscopy. Pt was scheduled to undergo GI eval without heparin bridge at an outside hospital, and this would have been disastrous. He reviewed the patient’s chart late at night, discussed with his attending, coordinated care with cardiology, nephrology (me) and outpt GI. He called patient several times and convinced her to be admitted to BJH. It is truly heartwarming to see Dr. Rubeiz taking charge of the situations as the patient’s PCP.
Yawar displayed really outstanding bedside care on firm-listening and engaging with his patients. He had multiple patients tell me separately unprompted how wonderful a physician he was and how they felt heard and cared about. He even had a patient write him a thank you letter on her day of discharge when he was off.
Avira showed outstanding team work and flexibility on medicine firm. She had multiple team member changes during the month that were outside of her control but she made the environment welcoming for each person that joined the team, regardless of how long they were joining for. The interns praised her for how supported they felt during these crucial early weeks.
Shelley went the extra mile (or three!) to help get her newly starting interns up to speed during a particularly busy week on Firm. She was incredibly and unfailingly supportive of their development and performed very admirably as their supervisor, even in the face of a high patient census and multiple thwarted disposition opportunities outside her (and my) control.
Dipika was pulled in to cover a MICU day, and notably had not yet done MICU days. On very short notice – and caring for patients completely new to her – she was able to put together solid presentations for rounds. Additionally, she seamlessly integrated into the workflow of the MICU, updating handoffs, placing orders, and communicating with collaborating teams with precision. She put thought and care into her tasks despite knowing that she would no longer be on the team the next day. As a senior resident, I would eagerly look forward to having an intern like her in the future.
Shangnon was the upper level resident on procedure team. In the 3 years I have done procedure team I have never had things go so smoothly (even at the end of the academic year!) This was due to Shangnon’s incredible organizational and leadership skills. We were able to be incredibly efficient and none of the interns felt flustered or overwhelmed thanks to Shangnon’s leadership and work ethic. She is also very humble, kind, and a great role model for our interns. Our patients benefited from her meticulous care.
Karl showed amazing dedication to patient care! He is very caring and compassionate with tremendous leadership skills. Always available even on his days off and was readily available to help and guide our new interns in their first month of training! He personally made phone calls to the family of our deceased patients to wish them well and and help them in coping with their loss!
I am nominating Scott Anderson in AmbJar for caring for Dr. Quinn’s non-English speaking, medically complicated patient in follow-up. He discussed with the nurse and the translator the best way to communicate with the patient ultimately using both an interpreter and pictures to enhance communication with the patient. He was caring, friendly and patient in the face of a complicated, sensitive and high-stakes treatment plan.
Literally crushing firm! From busy call days to busy pre-call days, Malika constantly is thinking about her students and her interns, how she can best help them succeed, and she helps them get there. She is adaptable, humble, and wicked smart. She really augments the team by understanding everyone’s needs and filling in that role. We’ve been having so much fun on firm and it’s a direct reflection of her leadership.
Michelle has some of the best bedside manners I’ve seen in a physician, let alone a first year first month physician. With difficult conversations, she’s eye-level, direct and factual, uses patient language, utilizes the pause…… and accepts the silence, and she role models for the students better than many attending physicians. Truly spectacular to watch.
Jackie brought so much JOY to our team, I would say like glue for popsicle sticks. In the week I had to work with her, every day she created her goals and set out to conquer them. She encouraged her students to maintain consistency, supported them on firm through affirmation and targeted feedback, and you could see come into her own throughout the week. She truly cared about her patients, checking in on them, had hard conversations, and was always thoughtful in updating the family. Super STAR.
I was deeply impressed with Dr. Padi’s performance on the inpatient medicine service. Not only did she provide outstanding care to her patients and was performing on a level way beyond what is expected this early in the year, she also always displayed and conveyed genuine, deep care and empathy for her patients that made them feel at ease, heard and well taken care of. Anyone having a physician like Dr. Padi on the team can consider themselves lucky.
I was approached by nursing leadership on 14400/14500 in response to the team’s conduct during one of their call days. In what was described as one of the more harrowing days on the unit (where they are no strangers to relatively wild encounters, it should be said), these residents consistently provided both sterling care for decompensating/medically complex patients and simultaneously attended to several very demanding patients. Nursing leadership cited both the abject professionalism on display as well as the degree of collaboration our trainees fostered with nursing staff in the moment.
On behalf of the CCU nursing staff, these doctors (along with cardiology fellow and WashU IM residency alum Matthew Lui), were recognized for their “all hands on deck” approach during a particularly challenging night shift, including putting in orders, putting in lines, communicating with different services, and stabilizing patients during multiple concurrent emergencies. “There was no hesitation, the team worked well together during the transition- CPR, central lines, etc and made sure to clearly communicate the plan. The code was ran smoothly and communication was closed loop. Despite this being a challenging start to a shift and a difficult code- the teamwork that was demonstrated between the providers and the nurses made it feel like a well-oiled machine. I heard physicians complementing nurses and vice versa.” These doctors were also commended for their compasion and respect for both their patients and their teammates.
“What a moment to remind us what this job is about. I was proud to be working with those people tonight.”