Final Practicum Presentations

The graduating residents have presented their final practicum presentations to the Practicum Review Board (PRB). Brief summaries of their work are listed below (awaiting summaries by residents...)

* Kristin Anderson - the prevention and management of teen pregnancy
* Mao Fontanilla - outpatient management of prosthetic joint infections
* Sarah Greer - improvement of DHMC trauma resuscitation process
* Hank Kutz - prevention of perioperative DVT in surgical patients
* Auden McClure - recognition, prevention, and management of obesity in General Academic Pediatrics at DHMC.
* Lisa Pastel - Lisa's practicum focused on improving the care of the patients with diabetes at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Lyme. The focus of this work was on the completion and documentation of process measures such as foot exams and pneumococcal vaccinations by empowering the LNAs with a flow-sheet tool. Subsequent efforts have focused on hypertension recognition and management.
* Beth Prairie - Beth's practicum in outpatient obstetrics used knowledge of local context and clinical processes to develop iterative interventions to improve the ordering of routine prenatal tests, with a particular focus on HIV screening. During the course of the practicum, prenatal HIV screening rates increased significantly to greater than 92%, with change sustained over 8 months. This represents an improved reliability in routine testing with a method that can be used to increase reliability of additional routine tests.
* Sally Ward - pediatric immunizations in Concord, NH
* Kisha Weiser - Improving adherence to >6 minute colonoscopic withdrawal times in the DHMC Gastroenterology Endoscopic Suite.