We love celebrating #internalmedicine for many reasons, but here are just a few in honor of #nationalinternalmedicineday! 🩺

⏰ About 9 days left to apply for the MedEd Scholarship Program. Deadline: Nov 13, 2026.
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#SGIM #MedEdScholarship #MedicalEducation #FacultyDevelopment

A Vaccination Clinic happening today from 1-5 pm at 2nd Avenue Commons!

Get your Tetanus, Measles, Pneumonia, Flu, or Covid-19 vaccine, no appointment needed. Sign up at the clinic, and snacks are on us. 🍪

#VaccinationClinic #PublicHealth #CommunityHealth

Pitt’s @Raaginizzle & Austen Markus served as subject matter expert partners on a new @HealthAllegheny report examining the overlapping health risks faced by people who inject drugs.

Read the report: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/6f3378…

🎉 Congrats to Vanessa Murray, ACES Fellow, whose poster “Prescribing with Purpose: A Decision-Tool-Based Curriculum to Teach Management Reasoning” was awarded Best Poster by a Postgraduate Trainee at the 11th Annual Med Ed Day! #MedEd #ADME #MedicalEducation #ClinicalReasoning

.@PaulJoudreyMD & @RCloutierPhD co-authored a commentary on the future of person-centered methadone treatment calling for shifting away from compliance-based models toward meaningful patient participation & stronger shared decision-making. #PittMed

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42767088/

New from Sonya Borrero: a clinical trial testing a digital decision support tool for reproductive health conversations. The text message intervention didn’t significantly boost discussions overall — pointing to a need for refined, scalable strategies.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42776530/

Join us Wed, Nov 4, 1-5pm at Second Ave Commons for a Vaccination Clinic! 💙💛 Tetanus, Measles, Pneumonia, Flu & COVID-19 vaccines will be available. Walk in, sign up, enjoy snacks! Share with someone who needs one 🙌

#PublicHealth #PittMed #CommunityHealth

Today’s #PittHSRseminar: Dr. Audrey Zhang examines how primary care delivery has changed & what new Medicare payment & workforce data reveal. In-person or Zoom!

💻 gim-crhc.pitt.edu/events/hsr-sem…

.@Raaginizzle, @shang_maggie, Megan Hamm, José Luiggi-Hernández, Flor de Abril Cameron, @liebschutz & colleagues found #HarmRduction kit implementation in outpatient addiction clinics was successful but stigma & funding challenges persist.

More: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42400068/

Has primary care financing & staffing kept pace with what it actually requires? Join #PittHSRseminar Oct 29 as Audrey Zhang discusses a new Medicare payment for longitudinal care & the growing role of APPs in primary care. In-person or Zoom!

🔗 gim-crhc.pitt.edu/events/hsr-sem…

Congrats to @GinaPiscitello, Donna Durant, Tami Minnier, Marika Haranis, @rabob & @JaneSchell11 on their study of hospitalized patients with comfort measures only orders. Among ~6.8K patients, #PallCare consults ⬇️ mortality & ⬆️ hospice discharge.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42253054/

Opioid overdoses are rising in older adults even as other age groups decline, yet MOUD trials often exclude them. Tim Anderson & Tae Woo (Ted) Park earned a NIDA R01 to close that gap. 👏 #PittMed

What does this mean? Larger structural interventions may be needed to mitigate historical and current influences of structural racism on access to lifesaving healthcare for Black and Hispanic patients with OUD.

Dr. Chen's research found patients in more segregated neighborhoods were more likely to get methadone, which requires in-person clinic visits at least weekly, & less likely to get buprenorphine, which can be prescribed in a regular doctor’s visit & picked up at a pharmacy.

In 2020, federal policy changes eased restrictions on medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). But Black and Hispanic VA patients saw only small gains overall, so Jessica Chen and her colleagues asked, does where people live play a role?

Today's #PittHSRseminar with Dr. Jessica Chen is happening now! Follow along here or hop on Zoom now to participate.

gim-crhc.pitt.edu/events/hsr-sem…

Did 2020’s federal policy changes close gaps in MOUD care or did they persist? 🤔 Find out at today’s #PittHSRseminar! Dr. Jessica Chen shares findings on how residential segregation shaped methadone vs. buprenorphine access in VA patients.

🔗 gim-crhc.pitt.edu/events/hsr-sem…

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Riley Steiner on her appointment as Research Associate Professor of Medicine! Dr. Steiner brings years of CDC and national research experience in adolescent sexual and reproductive health to DGIM and CONVERGE.

.@spagcl & colleagues published a study on a scalable peer coaching model for faculty well-being. Developed at Pitt/UPMC, it trained faculty across 20 departments & boosted coaching knowledge, confidence & skills — a practical model for academic medicine.

academia.edu/2997-9196/3/3/…

Congrats to @jgyabes & colleagues on their study of treatment type & mortality in Black & White patients w/ muscle-invasive bladder cancer. Among 2K+ patients, Black patients had higher cancer-specific death risk after cystectomy but not trimodal therapy.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42580988/