During the Town Hall, we announced an opening on the Physician Leadership Council (PLC), the system-wide committee of physicians under the leadership of Dr. Steve Evans, Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for MedStar Health. The PLC includes all CMOs across the system, as well as other senior leaders integral to care delivery, and its members provide oversight and direction on matters that are of critical importance to all our physicians and providers across the health system, spanning from Quality & Safety to medical operations to clinical IT, and more.
The PLC is seeking a resident or fellow to fill an open position beginning in September 2025. The requirements for the position are listed below. Applicants must be in good academic standing and have proven leadership capabilities.
PLC resident members are required to attend all scheduled PLC meetings, which are held in person every other month in Columbia, Maryland. Other requirements include regular contributions to GME Town Halls and other system-wide initiatives across our GME consortium. View the full list here.
If you would like to learn more about the position or have any questions, feel free to contact the current PLC Resident members: Dr. Winsten (mary.t.winsten@medstar.net) or Dr. Gress (kyle.l.gress@medstar.net).
We partnered with facilities to offer two new locations for safe bicycle storage at MWHC. Please ask your program director if you need help finding these storage areas. These were prioritized as a direct result of feedback heard from our residents, so thank you!
Yes. In this benefit year, health insurance costs increased for everyone across the System. With that came a new co-pay of $15 for the MedStar in-network providers for therapy services, which is the same co-pay for primary care. Our goal is to keep these costs as affordable as possible. If you have any concerns about this being a barrier to accessing mental health support resources, please reach out directly to Heather Hartman-Hall at Heather.M.Hartman-hall@medstar.net.
Yes. The key aspect of the updated GME Paid Time Off (PTO) policy that the System GMEC recently approved is that we are increasing the minimum time available to four (4) weeks of paid leave per academic year across all our GME programs systemwide. This ensures a consistent minimum baseline for all MedStar Health residents and fellows. We encourage you to reach out to your program director or any of our GME leaders with any questions that you may have about this positive iteration in the GME PTO policy.
This is a continuous area of focus and discussion for MedStar Health-Georgetown University GME, as well as other medical training sponsoring institutions across the country. We adhere to ACGME requirements to ensure all our trainees are ready to be independent practitioners in your discipline with an appropriate balance of service and education. However, if this scale is unbalanced in any way, please reach out to your program director or GME leadership.
Pharmacy leadership at the System level is aware of the feedback about the pharmacy availability at Georgetown. The primary issue affecting our ability to keep the pharmacy open on Sundays is staffing challenges, and we are working to extend the hours as soon as feasible.
Healthcare costs are rising across all industries, but MedStar is committed to keeping rates as affordable as possible. Although co-pays have gone up this year for all associates, we remain dedicated to ensuring access to high-quality care while working to keep costs as low as possible for all our associates.
MedStar provides access to the Physician Concierge service, which can connect you with an accountant or other financial professional who can assist with filing and answer any questions you may have about your individual filing. The concierge service is provided for you at no cost; you would be responsible for any fees associated with working with a tax professional.
You can access this service by:
Your account should be associated with your MedStar email. Contact Shane Murr at shane.m.murr@medstar.net if you need assistance creating your account.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We have escalated this issue to our IS/IT leadership team, as this issue spans multiple hospitals and levels of care providers. More updates will follow soon.
We are dedicated to helping facilitate quick access to mental health resources for our residents and fellows. For expedited mental health services, please call 202-944-5400 during business hours and identify yourself as a MedStar Health resident or fellow.
We offer additional resources for mental health services, such as access to mental health referrals, including five free counseling sessions. For more information:
Yes! MedStar residents and fellows can receive retirement counseling through Empower, which offers daytime, evening, and weekend support. Contact Empower’s Customer Service at 833-738-6787 (Weekdays: 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM, Saturdays: 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM).
MedStar Health provides student loan guidance through Ed Assist. You can access this benefit via MyHRMedStar.net under the Career tab, selecting Student Loan Coaching.
The best place to start is with your Chief Resident/Chief Fellow or your Program Director. You can also reach out to your Associate Designated Institutional Official (ADIO) or your local GME leader. In addition, our feedback form is always available and completely anonymous, unless you choose to share your name.
Yes! We welcome your ideas for events and activities and encourage networking and socializing with colleagues from other specialties and training locations. Please share your ideas with your ADIO and/or local GME leaders.
Yes! Making sure our residents and fellows have access to healthy and diverse food options is a priority. We are consistently looking at how to improve our food service. We are happy to share that later this month, a 24/7, self-service market designed for your convenience will open at MGUH. In addition, we invite you to attend a monthly meeting with Chris DeRocco, MedStar’s Vice President for Food and Nutrition Services. These meetings are held on the fourth Monday of the month, at 5 PM on Teams. All residents and fellows are invited.
The symposium scientific review committee received nearly double the number of submissions for the 2024 symposium this year compared to past years. Given the space restrictions, we limited accepted abstracts to ~300, representing a variety of disciplines and academic rigor. In the future, the committee will strive to provide evaluation feedback on proposals that aren’t accepted to further the learning process.
Yes. Our HR partners are evaluating our current contract for this service to ensure that it is meeting the expectations and needs of our community. Please continue to share specific feedback on this service to inform our decision.
Currently, residents are assigned the same provider bundle as other direct care providers within MedStar Health. A group from across MedStar Health has been formed to redesign and optimize the central line training process, and updates will be shared on this topic in the coming months.
Our goal is to ensure that we can provide personalized, flexible benefits for our residents and fellows. We are aware that food and travel costs continue to increase and work to be responsive to these changes to remain competitive in our market and meet the needs of our teams.
For the safety of patients, visitors, and associates, manual and motor-powered vehicles are not allowed inside the hospital. This includes electric scooters, bicycles, and electric bikes.
Bike racks are available at the Bus Circle and Emergency Department entrances, the Main (Blue) parking garage, and the Physicians Office Building (Yellow) parking garage. Residents and fellows should secure manual and motor-powered vehicles with a lock.
We encourage residents and fellows to report incidents of theft to the Office of Public Safety and GME.
The GME office has been doing daily walkthroughs of all call rooms at MWHC. While computers and printers in every lounge are functioning, there is a known issue with ports on the computers in the call rooms, which are actively being replaced by colleagues from our IT team. For any call room, computer/printer or lounge concerns, please e-mail WHC-GMEoffice@medstar.net, call 202-877-7227, or stop by the front desk.
Environmental Services will not clean call rooms if there are personal belongings in the room or if it looks like the room is being actively used. We encourage you to put your personal belongings in the lockers that are immediately outside of the call rooms. For any call room, computer/printer or lounge concerns, please e-mail WHC-GMEoffice@medstar.net, call 202-877-7227, or stop by the front desk.
There will be more food options for MedStar Health associates, patients, and families at MGUH in the coming months. We recognize that this is a significant issue, and we are working diligently to improve the available options and reducing barriers to food on the hospital campus. There is currently food distributed to the house staff lounge on 3CCC on a routine basis and we are considering expanding distributions to the resident workrooms on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors. We are also considering turning some of the resident workrooms at MGUH into combined lounge/work rooms with tables, couches, and a fridge stocked with food. Please stay tuned for more updates soon.
Yes, that unit is undergoing a full renovation, and it will be converted to offices and meeting space, nursing space, and resident call rooms and workspaces. The resident call rooms should be operational in early March.
There are glass-enclosed team workrooms on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floor that are open to anyone, including all of our residents. In addition, there are three rooms defined as resident-only workrooms on the far corner of the ICUs on the 3rd, 4th, and 5th floors. These resident-only workrooms are open to all house staff.
The Physician Concierge Program is a benefit unique to GME. You can e-mail LafayetteConcierge@medstar.net and mention you are a MedStar Health resident or fellow to be connected with a Primary Care Provider (PCP). We will bring the feedback that we need additional access to specialist appointments back to the workgroup who helped set up the Physician Concierge Program, and we will develop a solution.
Sodexo has an app called the Everyday app that allows you to order food in advance and save time by paying via the mobile platform. The app can be downloaded from your phone’s app store or by visiting Everyday.Sodexo.com. Find instructions on how to use the app and find hours and availability by hospital here.
