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MILITARY
MEDICINE
A Quality and Patient Safety
Chief Resident in the VA?
By David Dooley, MD, FACP
It’s still early in the morning at San Antonio’s Audie L. Murphy San Antonio (UTH-SA) Internal Medicine interns in tow, she
Memorial Veterans Hospital VAMC and Dr. Michelle Ogunwole makes her way through the procedures, coaching and correcting
has already received three requests for help in performing bedside the learners to ensure that no harm is done. Preliminary training
procedures on veteran patients: one diagnostic paracentesis on a is commonly done in the new Audie Murphy Simulation Center.
medical ward, one thoracentesis, and another large-volume para-
centesis in the internal medicine clinic. With her two UT Health- Dr. Ogunwole is the most recent of the Chief Residents in
Quality and Patient Safety (CRQS) at the South Texas Veterans
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