Dr. Youens on the cover!!

http://www.texas-ec.org/texascooppower/

This month's Texas Co-op Power magazine has a very nice article on rural family medicine, highlighting Dr. Youens' practice in Weimar, TX. This is, of course, the site of our Rural Training Track! The RTT and some of the residents are mentioned in the article.

2007 ITE Top Scores

I am pleased to announce the top ITE scores for our program on the 2007 ITE:

PGY1 - Lorena Salvatori
PGY2 - Tran Quan & Donna Simmons
PGY3 - Rainer Effenhauser

You will each be formally recognized at the 2008 UTMB FMR Graduation ceremony.

Overall, I am extremely pleased with the 2007 ITE scores. Several of the residents distinguished themselves with impressive increases in their scores over last year. Everyone has worked really hard in their academic studies this year and I think we are seeing that rewarded with good scores. Keep up the good work!

back, catching up!

I am home from spending a month in Russia, adopting my two newest daughters. We are all adjusting and I'm looking forward to being back to work in the very near future.

Lots has happened while I've been away.

Recruiting season is getting wrapped up. We have our final two interviews scheduled for tomorrow and we're looking forward to that. Our official Rank Meeting will be held next week, at which we will construct our final Rank list. We're also looking forward to that!

We have a very interesting situation developing with our graduating class of 2008... it looks like five of them will be going on to fellowship training, and that is definitely a record for us! The two who have gotten word recently and not been previously announced are: Javier Rios - Sports Medicine and Jose San Martin - Obstetrics. Congratulations!! Edited to add: I don't find where I previously announced David Schnaiderman's fellowship... so here goes - David will also be staying on here at UTMB for his Geriatrics fellowship!

Also, I recently learned that one of our Chiefs - Carlos Montiel - will join one of our former graduates - Alex Brzezny - in practice in Washington state after graduation. I'm happy for everyone concerned!