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Vitals: Spring 2016 – Perspectives: Global and Local Challenges
Dr. Tiffany Chioma Anaebere reflects on Haiti relief mission. She is a 3rd Year Emergency Medicine Resident at Alameda Health System – Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA Soon after I placed a breathing tube in our very sick patient at Hospital Bernard Mevs in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the Emergency Department team connected her to our last ventilator. Shortly thereafter, a…
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Vitals: Spring 2016 – Lobby Days in FL & NY
Florida Lobby Day: Policy Changes for Mental Health In what has become an annual tradition, five Miami residents boarded a plane to Tallahassee on February 17 to advocate on behalf of their patients and adequate funding for Jackson Memorial Hospital, the largest safety-net hospital in Southern Florida and largest public hospital in the state. As…
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Vitals: Spring 2016 – President’s Report: Taking Back Our Wellbeing
Taking Back Our Well-Being By Dr. Hemant Sindhu, CIR President, 2015-2016 Two months ago, I received word about something we all fear hearing about but rarely speak openly about. One of my fellow CIR members was found dead, having jumped from the window of her apartment building. Work ground to a halt that day for…
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Vitals: Spring 2016 – Alumni Corner: The Power of a Collective Voice
Alumni Corner: The Power of a Collective Voice Cynthia Stotts, DO, is an inpatient pediatric ward and PICU attending at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center and recently spoke on the Women in Medicine alumni panel at CIR’s Resident Leadership Conference. She completed her residency at LAC+USC and was the President of the Joint Committee of…
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UC Irvine Residents Win Housing Stipend, Education Funds in First Contract Victory
UCIMC interns, residents, and fellows voted overwhelmingly to ratify a first-ever CIR contract on Wednesday, May 11. This is a first CIR resident-physician contract within the UC-system. The contract is a milestone in raising standards for residents and fellows at UCIMC and residents are now in a better position to win even better contract conditions…
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New Contract at Cambridge Health Alliance
Despite a budget crisis and a round of voluntary layoffs, residents at Cambridge Health Alliance won increases and a the continuation of a patient experience bonus in their latest three-year contract, ratified in April. The 18-member bargaining team, representing 116 residents in nine programs, negotiated a $500 bonus for all housestaff, plus 3 percent increases…
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St. Mary’s Medical Center Joins CIR
Welcome, St. Mary’s, to CIR! St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco voted overwhelmingly on March 8 and 9 in favor of their first tentative agreement, making this the third Dignity Hospital (out of six in California) to join the Committee of Interns and Residents. Residents at St. Mary’s voted to join the housestaff union…
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LA County Resident Physicians Due for Salary Increase, QI Fund
Fourth year medical students who match at LA County hospitals this March can look forward to a major salary increase over last year’s starting salary, thanks to a recently settled contract between the LA County’s Department of Health Services and the resident doctors’ union, the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR/SEIU Healthcare). “We made a…
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2016 CIR Delegate Elections
CIR Delegate Elections are coming up in February and March at all of our hospitals around the country – find out more details about your election process, running for Delegate, and election dates and locations here: Hospital Region Date(s) Details Jackson Memorial Hospital Florida February 9, 10, 11 Details Boston Medical Center Massachusetts March 1…
