CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Both sponsoring institutions for Dayton-area ACGME residency programs have learned that they have received FIVE YEARS of institutional accreditation for their programs -- that's the max!!!  Congratulations to the WSU Boonshoft School of Medicine and their 20 programs and to Kettering Medical Center and their three programs.  DAGMEC is pleased to be a partner with these fine institutions!
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FULL ACCREDITATION!!!
All residency and fellowship programs are fully accredited.  Congratulations to the entire GME community on this accomplishment!
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Heros of Emergency Medicine
Congratulations to Drs. Hamilton, Singer & Kolodzik from WSU Emergency Medicine that have been recognized by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine as heros.
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Ann Burke, M.D. has been elected as the next Chair of the American Pediatric Program Directors. Dr. Burke is the program director for the WSU Pediatrics program.  Congrats! 
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John Shrader, M.D. was awarded a first place prize from the Association for Hospital Medical Education for his poster entitled “Automating Inpatient Admission Caps Verification” at the May meeting held in San Diego, California.
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Ryan Simon, M.D., a resident in the combined WSUBSOM Internal Medicine/Pediatrics program, received the National Teaching Award for the Class of 2009.
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Justin Fox, M.D., a second year resident in the WSU General Surgery program was offered a Robert Woods Johnson Clinical Scholarship for global health that will take place at Yale.
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