Scholars@Duke
Catherine Kuhn

Catherine Kuhn

Professor of Anesthesiology
Anesthesiology, General, Vascular, High Risk Transplant & Critical Care
catherine.kuhn@duke.edu
Box 3951, Durham, NC 27710
201 Trent Drive, 1086 Yellow Zone, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Improving Well-Being Among Trainees: A Partnership to Reduce Barriers to Primary Care Services.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · April 2020 BACKGROUND: Improved well-being is a focus for graduate medical education (GME) programs. Residents and fellows often express difficulty with visiting primary care physicians, and this issue has not been thoroughly investigated. OBJECTIVE: We reported impl ... Full text Link to item Cite

Improving Resident and Fellow Engagement in Patient Safety Through a Graduate Medical Education Incentive Program.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · December 2018 BACKGROUND: Collaboration between graduate medical education (GME) and health systems is essential for the success of patient safety initiatives. One example is the development of an incentive program aligning trainee performance with health system quality ... Full text Link to item Cite

Self-care as a professional imperative: physician burnout, depression, and suicide.

Journal Article Can J Anaesth · February 2017 PURPOSE: Burnout has been identified in approximately half of all practicing physicians, including anesthesiologists. In this narrative review, the relationship between burnout, depression, and suicide is explored, with particular attention to the anesthes ... Full text Link to item Cite

Facilitating Institutional Oversight and Program Improvement Through Educational Competency Committees.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · July 2016 BACKGROUND: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires programs to engage annually in program evaluation and improvement. OBJECTIVE: We assessed the value of creating educational competency committees (ECCs) that use successf ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mystery behind the match: an undergraduate medical education-graduate medical education collaborative approach to understanding match goals and outcomes.

Journal Article Med Educ Online · 2016 BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of information regarding institutional targets for the number of undergraduate medical education (UME) graduates being matched to graduate medical education (GME) programs at their home institutions. At our institution, the D ... Full text Link to item Cite

Mystery behind the match: an undergraduate medical education-graduate medical education collaborative approach to understanding match goals and outcomes.

Journal Article Med Educ Online · January 2016 Background There is a paucity of information regarding institutional targets for the number of undergraduate medical education (UME) graduates being matched to graduate medical education (GME) programs at their home institutions. At our institution, the Du ... Full text Link to item Cite

In reply

Journal Article Anesthesiology · January 1, 2010 Full text Cite

A new teaching model for resident training in regional anesthesia.

Journal Article Anesth Analg · November 2002 Featured Publication UNLABELLED: The adequacy of resident education in regional anesthesia is of national concern. A teaching model to improve resident training in regional anesthesia was instituted in the Anesthesiology Residency in 1996 at Duke University Health System. The ... Full text Link to item Cite

Myocardial ischemia correlates with reduced fibrinolytic activity following peripheral vascular surgery.

Journal Article J Clin Anesth · March 2000 Featured Publication STUDY OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between perioperative ischemia and serial concentrations of D-dimer, which is a sensitive and specific marker of fibrinolytic activity. Myocardial ischemia and infarction are well-recognized complications of p ... Full text Link to item Cite

Valuing the work performed by anesthesiology residents and the financial impact on teaching hospitals in the United States of a reduced anesthesia residency program size.

Journal Article Anesth Analg · August 1998 Featured Publication UNLABELLED: We performed a financial analysis at a large university tertiary care hospital to determine the incremental cost of replacing its anesthesiology residents with alternative dependent providers (i.e., certified registered nurse anesthetists in th ... Full text Link to item Cite