Abstracts tagged "Education"

Abstract Number: 0193 • ACR Convergence 2024
New York City Lupus Clinical Trials Education Program
Maya Souvignier¹, Leila Khalili¹, Wai Yan April Fu², Laura Geraldino³, Nancyanne Schmidt¹, Yevgeniya Gartshteyn⁴, Peter Izmirly⁵, Noa Schwartz⁶ and Anca Askanase¹, ¹Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, ²Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, ³Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, ⁴Columbia University Irving School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁵New York University Grossman School of Medicine, New York, NY, ⁶Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY
Background/Purpose: Clinical trial (CT) participation is essential for the advancement of treatment paradigms and should be considered part of clinical care in SLE. CTs fail…
Abstract Number: 1307 • ACR Convergence 2024
Multidisciplinary Participation in Online Rheumatology Discussion Forums
Nina Couette¹, Nadine Housri² and Melissa Briones³, ¹Genesis Healthcare System, Columbus, OH, ²Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, ³Loyola University, Maywood, IL
Background/Purpose: Multidisciplinary interaction among medical specialties allows for the sharing of experiential knowledge to provide comprehensive patient care. theMednet.org, an online platform that allows for…
Abstract Number: 1058 • ACR Convergence 2024
Bridging the Care Gap Between Hospital Discharge and Outpatient Care Transition for Pediatric Rheumatology Patients: An RN-led Quality Improvement Project
Adrienne Ramirez¹, Lisa Walker-Vischer² and Tzielan Lee³, ¹Stanford Medicine - Children's Health, Palo Alto, CA, ²San Jose State University, Campbell, CA, ³Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA

Background/Purpose: When pediatric rheumatology patients are discharged from a hospital, the period between hospital discharge & outpatient care transition creates a care gap when there…
Abstract Number: 2062 • ACR Convergence 2023
A Mental Health Workshop for Pediatric Rheumatology Fellows
Caitlan Pinotti¹, Alison Manning², Suzanne Edison³ and Rebecca Sadun¹, ¹Duke University, Durham, NC, ²Lifespan, East Providence, RI, ³Cure JM Foundation, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Many children with a rheumatic disease have concurrent mental and behavioral health challenges, but only ~40% of these symptoms are brought to medical attention.…
Abstract Number: 2064 • ACR Convergence 2023
Perceptions of Rheumatology Fellows on Mentorship Quality After Implementation of a Formalized Mentorship Program
Sarah Capponi¹ and Rachel Hilburg², ¹Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, New Hope, PA, ²Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Despite the importance of mentorship, there are few formalized mentorship organizations in fellowship training programs. Rheumatology is a field with increasing popularity[1], and mentorship…
Abstract Number: 0506 • ACR Convergence 2023
Patient and Physician Global Assessment of Psoriatic Arthritis Disease Activity: High Concordance in an ArLAR Multinational Study
Nelly Ziade¹, Noura Abbas², Lina El Kibbi³, Avin Maroof⁴, Bassel Elzorkany⁵, Nizar Ani⁶, ASAL ADNAN⁷, NABAA IHSAN JAWAD AWADH⁷, Faiq Gorial⁸, Nada Alchama⁹, Chafika Haouichat¹⁰, Fatima Alnaimat¹¹, Suad Hannawi¹², Saed Atawnah¹³, HUSSEIN HALABI¹⁴, Manal Al-Mashaleh¹⁵, Laila Aljazwi¹⁶, Ahmed Abogamal¹⁷, laila Ayoub¹⁸, Elyes Bouajina¹⁹, Rachid Bahiri²⁰, Sahar Saad²¹, Maha Sabkar²¹, Krystel Aouad²², Laure Gossec²³ and Ihsane Hmamouchi²⁴, ¹Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, ²Saint Joseph University Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, ³Specialized Medical Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ⁴Kurdistan University Hawler, Erbil, Iraq, ⁵Private (BZRC), Cairo, Egypt, ⁶Baghdad College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq, ⁷Baghdad Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq, ⁸University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq, ⁹Ebn Al Nafiss Hospital, Damascus, Syria, ¹⁰Faculty of Medicine El Mahdi Si Ahmed, Blida, Algeria, ¹¹University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, ¹²Kuwait Hospital, Department of Rheumatology, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ¹³Al ahli hospital, Hebron, Palestine, Hebron, Palestinian Territories, ¹⁴King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, ¹⁵Royal Medical Services, Amman, Jordan, ¹⁶Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya, ¹⁷Saudi German Hospital Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, ¹⁸University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya, ¹⁹Farhat Hached Hospital of Sousse, Sousse, Tunisia, ²⁰Department of Rheumatology, El Ayachi Hospital Medical University, Sale, Morocco, ²¹King Hamad University Hospital, Bahrain, Bahrain, ²²Saint George Hospital University Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon, ²³Sorbonne Université and Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France, ²⁴Rheumatology Unit, Lalla Aicha Temara Hospital, Temara, Morocco
Background/Purpose: In patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA), discordance between physicians and patients when assessing disease activity has been described as frequent, mainly in European and…
Abstract Number: 2066 • ACR Convergence 2023
Ultrasound Guided Synovial Biopsy Course: Achievement of Learner Self Efficacy
Diane Horowitz¹, Darren Tabechian², Ami Ben-Artzi³, Karina Torralba⁴ and Arthur Mandelin⁵, ¹Northwell Health, Great Neck, NY, ²University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY, ³Ami Ben Artzi, MD, San Diego, CA, ⁴Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, ⁵Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Background/Purpose: Ultrasound guided synovial biopsy (UGSB) is a minimally invasive, safe and effective tool to obtain synovium for clinical and research purposes. Described in Europe…
Abstract Number: 0766 • ACR Convergence 2023
The OMERACT GCA Phantom Project: Validation of 3D Printed Ultrasound Training Models for Giant Cell Arteritis
Valentin Sebastian Schäfer¹, Tobias Schremmer², Florian Recker³, Wolfgang Hartung⁴, Christina Duftner⁵, Sara Monti⁶, Alojzija Hocevar⁷, Rositsa Karalilova⁸, Annamaria Iagnocco⁹, PIERLUIGI MACCHIONI¹⁰, Giuseppe Antonio Germano¹¹, Maria Esperanza Naredo Sanchez¹², Eugenio De Miguel¹³, Luca Seitz¹⁴, Thomas Daikeler¹⁵, Markus Aschwanden¹⁶, Dennis Boumans¹⁷, Chetan Mukhtyar¹⁸, smith kate¹⁹, Richard Wakefield²⁰, Andreas Diamantopoulos²¹, Stavros Chrysidis²², Berit Dalsgaard Nielsen²³, Kresten Keller²⁴, Uffe Dohn²⁵, Lene Terslev²⁶, Marcin Milchert²⁷, Aaron Juche²⁸, Wolfgang Schmidt²⁹, George A. W. Bruyn³⁰ and Christian Dejaco³¹, ¹Clinic of Internal Medicine III, Department of Oncology, Hematology, Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital of Bonn, Bonn, Germany, ²Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Bonn, Germany, ³Department for Gynecology and Obstetrics, University Hospital Bonn, Bonn, Germany, ⁴Asklepios Clinic, Tegernheim, Germany, ⁵Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Division of Internal Medicine II, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria, ⁶Division of Rheumatology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy; Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy, ⁷Department of Rheumatology, Universitiy Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia, ⁸Clinic of Rheumatology, Medical University Plovdiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, ⁹University of Turin, Roma, Italy, ¹⁰Azienda USL -IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ¹¹Rheumatology Unit- Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova Reggio Emilia-Italy, Reggio Emilia, Italy, ¹²Rheumatology Department and Joint and Bone Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Madrid, Spain, ¹³Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain, ¹⁴Rheumatology and Immunology, Inselspital University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland, ¹⁵Clinic for Rheumatology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ¹⁶Department of Angiology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland, ¹⁷Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Hospital Group Twente, Almelo, Netherlands, ¹⁸Vasculitis service, Rheumatology department, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, Norwich, United Kingdom, ¹⁹NIHR Leeds Biomedical Research Centre, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²⁰s Leeds Insitute of Rheumatic and Musculoskeletal Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, ²¹Akershus University Hospital, Lørenskog, Norway, ²²Department of Rheumatology, Southwest Jutland Hospital Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark, ²³Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark; Department of Medicine, The Regional Hospital in Horsens, Horsens, Denmark, ²⁴Department of Rheumatology, Aarhus University Hospital; Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, ²⁵Copenhagen University Hospital at Hvidovre, Hvidovre, Denmark, ²⁶Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ²⁷Department of Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, Diabetology, Geriatrics and Clinical Immunology, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, ²⁸Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Medical Centre for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany, ²⁹Rheumatology, Immanuel Krankenhaus Berlin, Medical Centre for Rheumatology Berlin-Buch, Berlin, Germany, ³⁰Reumakliniek Lelystad, Loenga, Netherlands, ³¹Azienda Sanitaria Alto Adige, Brunico, Italy
Background/Purpose: Ultrasonography has been validated as a diagnostic tool for giant cell arteritis (GCA). There is a need to develop training resources, because the glucocorticoid…
Abstract Number: 2067 • ACR Convergence 2023
A New Tool Assessing Trainees’ Interventional Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Skills
Stine Maya Dreier Carstensen¹, Lene Terslev², Søren Just³, Mikkel Østergaard⁴, Mogens Pfeiffer-Jensen¹ and Lars Konge⁵, ¹Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Copenhagen University Hospital – Rigshospitalet Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark, ²Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup, Denmark, ³Section of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Odense University Hospital – Svendborg Hospital, Odense, Denmark, ⁴Copenhagen Center for Arthritis Research, Center for Rheumatology and Spine Diseases, Centre for Head and Orthopaedics, Rigshospitalet; University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, ⁵Copenhagen Academy for Medical Education and Simulation The Capital Region of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
Background/Purpose: Interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) procedures, such as ultrasound-guided arthrocentesis and joint injections, are routinely used in rheumatology practice. However, the efficacy and safety of…
Abstract Number: 0767 • ACR Convergence 2023
Current Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Practices of 12 Years of past Participants of a 10-Months Rheumatology Ultrasound Training Program (Ultrasound School of North American Rheumatologists)
Midori Nishio¹, Fawad Aslam², Sonja Ziniel³ and Eugene Kissin⁴, ¹John Muir Specialty Medical Group, Walnut Creek, CA, ²Mayo Clinic, Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, ³Univ of Colorado School of Medicine and Childrens Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, ⁴Boston University, Newton, MA
Background/Purpose: Musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSKUS) is an integral part of rheumatology training. The Ultrasound School of North American Rheumatologists (USSONAR) has been a leader in rheumatology…
Abstract Number: 2069 • ACR Convergence 2023
Navigating the Residency-to-Fellowship Transition in Rheumatology
Lilian Otalora Rojas¹ and Gurjit S Kaeley², ¹University of Florida, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, ²University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Background/Purpose: Transitioning from residency to fellowship is a significant milestone in a medical professional's career. Physicians acquire foundational knowledge and skills during residency, while fellowship…
Abstract Number: 0768 • ACR Convergence 2023
Using Participatory Design-Thinking Process to Create a More Applicant-Centered Rheumatology Fellowship Interview Experience
Alick Feng, Ayesha Iftekhar, Ruoning Ni, Gatra Gheriani and Bharat Kumar, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA
Background/Purpose: Design-thinking is a creative problem-solving process used to better understand users’ needs and experiences so that a product or service can be improved. Its…
Abstract Number: 2070 • ACR Convergence 2023
Augmenting Medical Education: An Evaluation of GPT-4 and ChatGPT in Answering Rheumatology Questions from the Spanish Medical Licensing Examination
Alfredo Madrid García¹, zulema Rosales², Dalifer Freites², Inés Pérez Sancristóbal³, Benjamin Fernandez³ and Luis Rodríguez Rodríguez³, ¹Fundación Investigación Biomédica Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ²Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain, ³Hospital Clinico San Carlos, Madrid, Spain
Background/Purpose: The emergence of Large Language Models (LLM) with remarkable performance such as GPT-4 and ChatGPT, has led to an unprecedented uptake in the population.…
Abstract Number: 1099 • ACR Convergence 2023
Improving Hydroxychloroquine Dosing and Eye Screening Compliance in Patients with Connective Tissue Disorder
Maria Salgado Guerrero¹ and Angelo Gaffo², ¹University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, ²Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL; Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, AL
Background/Purpose: Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is a key treatment for patients with lupus and other rheumatic diseases. To minimize the risk of retinal toxicity, the American College…
Abstract Number: 2072 • ACR Convergence 2023
Utility of a Novel Pediatric Rheumatology Interactive Teleconference Series: Rheum2Play
Sarah Molina¹, Tresa Ambooken², Christina Gulla³, Miriah Gillispie-Taylor⁴ and Ginger Janow⁵, ¹Baylor College of Medicine - Pediatrics Residency Program, Houston, TX, ²Hackensack Meridian Health, Hackensack, NJ, ³HUMC pediatrics residency, Hackensack, NJ, ⁴Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, TX, ⁵Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital at Hackensack Meridian Health, Glen Rock, NJ
Background/Purpose: Within pediatric subspecialities, pediatric rheumatology remains one of the newest and smallest, with a paucity of resources available for new trainees and those interested…

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