PRB Meeting

The Practicum Review Board met Monday, March 9 at DHMC. Two LPM-1 residents presented their formative presentations.

First up was Sharon Alroy-Preis - Fever to first dose: decreasing time to antibiotic administration. Sharon's project working in multiple microsystems to help decrease time from positive blood culture to first dose of antibiotics. She had a lot of supporters from the pharmacy who are also looking at this issue internally. Sharon had a tremendous amount of interesting data and was enthusiastically given the go-ahead to proceed. Looking forward to her summative presentation later in the Spring!

Next was Erin Meyer - Improving the safety of blood transfusions at DHMC. Erin's project is focused specifically on platelets and trying to elucidate why so many of these transfusions do not adhere to established transfusion medicine guidelines. Her microsystems include transfusion medicine and an inpatient unit at DHMC. There was a great discussion on the quality of evidence available surrounding the actual guideline and hopes that Erin will either confirm accepted practice or expand understanding of appropriate platelet transfusion goals. Erin will be finishing up her pathology residency before she starts LPM-2 so she has some time to lay ground work before her summative.

Of note - an LPMR graduate, Auden McClure was one of Erin's reviewers. It is great to see graduates of our program staying involved as coaches and mentors.

Later this week the RAC is meeting - updates to come!