{"id":102026,"date":"2023-09-06T15:11:33","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=102026"},"modified":"2023-09-06T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T20:11:37","slug":"resident-of-the-month-september-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2023\/09\/06\/resident-of-the-month-september-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Fellow of the month, September 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Name:<\/strong> Peter Ricci Pellegrino, MD, PhD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medical school you attended\/year you graduated<\/strong>: UNMC, Class of 2018<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fellowship at UNMC:<\/strong> Pain medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Program director:<\/strong> Michael Lankhorst, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How long is your training program and how long have you been at UNMC?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ACGME-accredited clinical fellowships in anesthesiology are each one year long, but this is my 14th year at UNMC. I started here as an MD\/PhD student and stayed for my residency in anesthesiology and fellowships in critical care and pain medicine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What do you like the most about your training program?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The attendings in our division are great humans, astute teachers and role-model clinicians, and the educational support staff in the Department of Anesthesiology is phenomenal. That said, my favorite aspect of my training program is the patient care. I really enjoy bonding with patients and families and shepherding them through vulnerable situations. In Pain Medicine, many of the patients we meet have had a difficult journey both inside and outside the medical system. When we alleviate the pain of a long-suffering patient, we create a very powerful relationship of trust and gratitude. The functional recoveries that our patients mount once their pain is better controlled can be inspirational, and I find my role in this process to be very rewarding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What challenges do you foresee in graduate medical education in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the last 14 years, I have seen medical education shift away from broad-based foundations to become increasingly specialized. I really do think that this momentum, particularly at the medical school level, has been positive, but I foresee this becoming an increasingly challenging issue. As an anesthesiology resident, I completed a multidisciplinary internship year, and I\u2019m really indebted to the surgeons, cardiologists, nephrologists, internists, intensivists and other attendings who spent time teaching me. I worry about what we lose as we become increasingly siloed, and I think it will be a challenge to make sure we\u2019re striking the right balance between foundations and specialization in the decades to come. On a different note, I also worry how much time the average resident will spend waiting for Epic to load each day once they start deploying artificial intelligence technologies that further tax computing bandwidth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

List some accomplishments that you are proud of:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n