JUNE
2002
Volume 26 •
No. 6
At medical staff meeting, Marsh presents her vision for SHC
Diagnostic images will soon be just a click away
Stanford conference on opiates offers guidance on misunderstood medications
Facilities changes will open up 20 more beds at Stanford Hospital
Surgery professor advocates aggressive, preventive treatment of anal cancer
New residents arrive; all will get POE training
Medical Staff stipends help nurses achieve educational goals
New
residents arrive; all will get POE training
Marking an annual rite of passage for graduate medical education, approximately
215 medical residents will begin their training at Stanford Hospital &
Clinics in late June, joining Stanford's 64 clinical programs and services.
Of the 215 newcomers, 120 are first-year residents. The new faces will
begin appearing from June 21 to July 1.
"We did very well in the match process this year," said chief of staff Larry Shuer, noting that all of the hospital's residency slots were filled. "These are all very high-quality residents, and many of them come from the country's most prestigious medical schools."
At their daylong orientation - to be held June 20 for the first-year residents and June 28 for everyone else - the residents will receive hands-on training with the physician order-entry system. During the 90-minute POE training, the residents will be given specific patient scenarios tailored to their area of service, and they will enter a set of orders appropriate for each patient.
"Based on our previous experience with POE training (of the medical staff), we've improved the training to make it more practical, to simulate real-world learning," said John Godon, manager of clinical applications.
Godon said that during the residents' first few weeks at the hospital, the IT department will put more support staff on the floors to help the residents become proficient with the POE system and to fix any problems.
