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1. PASSED MY ID BOARDS!! You are now looking at a board certified ID physician! This ends a decade long journey in medical training as a Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG). This was a challenging & fulfilling journey, with many people to thank. My journey as an FMG, in a thread 🧵

I cannot BELIEVE how med school made such a big deal out of phaeochromcytoma but have not a single lecture on “how to support your homeless patient”

This year, Jessica Kramer, MD, became our newest Associate Program Director. Below she shares her favorite part about working with our residents. So glad to have you, Dr. Kramer! 😊

Amazing crew of residents and faculty saving lives this week on Trauma/ICU/ACCS ⁦@ErinGAndrade⁩ et al! 👩🏼‍⚕️👩🏻‍⚕️👩🏾‍⚕️🚑

Lab resident Brendan Heiden, MD, MPHS, & #WashUMed Thoracic Surgery faculty conducted valuable research on patient outcomes for lung cancer surgery at Veterans Health Hospitals & found veterans receive exceptional care with favorable outcomes. Read more: bit.ly/3AUCrys.

Tobacco treatment is critical for patients with NSCLC undergoing surgery! Cessation for at least 3 weeks before surgery is an achievable goal! #LCAM #CommittoQuit #SmokeOut WashU Medicine Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery General Surgery Residency at WashU Medicine WashU Medicine Department of Surgery WashU Medicine Division of Public Health Sciences Association of VA Surgeons (AVAS) VA HSR VA Research

Our new study in CHEST #CHEST2021 ‼️ 61% Vets w/ NSCLC 🫁 continued to 🚬 1-yr post-surgery. Continued smoking a/w worse survival (median OS 73.7 vs. 83.2 months). Never too late to stop smoking! 🚭⏱️🗓️ WashU Medicine Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery General Surgery Residency at WashU Medicine VA HSR Association of VA Surgeons (AVAS) VA Research

“Cancer care is abrupt and expensive” ⁦@anaeze_offodile⁩ ⁦MD Anderson Cancer Center⁩ giving great ⁦BMC Surgery⁩ Grand Rounds⁩ ⁦Boston U Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine⁩ on financial burden of #breastcancer - so relevant to our patients ⁦Boston Medical Center⁩, and everywhere

Live from the MO COT @TsehayAbebe6 breaking down concerning trends in pediatric firearm injury over the last decade in Missouri #MOCOT2022 General Surgery Residency at WashU Medicine

Congratulations to lab resident Frank Olumba, MD, for winning best poster in the National Impact category at the 4th Annual ICTS @ WashU in STL Symposium! Read about his study here: icts.wustl.edu/29-restore-dec…

Our attempt at a first net zero operation - efficient and carbon reduced: bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…

And we also did some General Surgery Residency at WashU Medicine x @WashUIMRes teamwork as well!

Congratulations to our very own Program Director Paul Wise for being selected to the APDS surgery Executive Committee 2022-2023! 👏 apds.org/about/officers…

🧵regarding the important suturing concept of whether to use one bite to grab both ends of the tissue ('taking it in 1'), versus using two bites ('taking it in 2'). We will go over some technical pointers about each of these, especially as they pertain to Lembert sutures.

🧵of 🧵 We've covered several sutures now. Next is Monocryl (or poliglecaprone 25). It was designed for skin and subcutaneous tissues, and is still used mostly for that, but is also used in a number of other settings. We will go over properties, uses, etc (the usual things...)