Olivia W. Brooks, MD, MSCTR
@OWBrooks_MD
@BWHPulmCCM Fellow 🫁 • Former @UConnIM Chief Medical Resident 🩺 & @StGeorgesU MD ⚕️• weekend golfer, retired D1 athlete, dog person, foodie 👩🏻🔬⛳️🐶🍱
I have been counting down the days to be able to make this post — more like many years really! SO beyond excited to have matched at @BWHPulmCCM and incredibly proud to have come from @UConnIM (and as an IMG)! As always, onward! #Match2025 #pccm
Hoping to get more active here throughout fellowship at @BWHPulmCCM! Starting off strong this morning attending the BI Introduction to Bronchoscopy and Pulmonary Procedures Course with may other Boston area PCCM fellows! Looking forward to the future.
🫁 One of my absolute favorites requires a RT during my first MICU rotation as a fellow! #MedTwitter
This week will be sharing some of the most popular #ICUOnePagers onepagericu.com 1️⃣ Overview of Ventilator Modes - covers all the common modes (VC, PC, PRVC, PS, APRV) & the pros/cons of each. Also covers the settings for each & how to adjust based on ABG/SpO2.
Oh you’re going to a teaching hospital in July? Well get ready… for the most compassionate care from extremely empathetic interns along with their vigilant supervising attendings. Hope you like open ended questions and doctors listening to you bc you’re gonna drown in it.
📚Study Hack: Text➡️Audio! Let your laptop read to you with built-in text-to-speech🎧 🛠️ System Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content ✅ Turn on “Speak Selection” 🔘 Set a hotkey (e.g. Option + Esc) 🗣️ Highlight + press the key = instant audiobook! #MedTwitter #StudyHack
🫁Pulm Pearl from ILD clinic today: 💊 Pirfenidone — a pillar in fibrotic lung disease treatment comes with two key side effects: ☀️ Photosensitive rash 💩 Diarrhea 🧠 Don’t forget to counsel patients & weigh these when choosing between antifibrotics! #MedTwitter #PulmPearls
3 of the absolute best, most supportive and influential people on my PCCM journey so far
👏🏼 👏🏼 👏🏼 Congratulations to Sruti (our graduating 3rd year fellow), Dr Grover (Saint Francis faculty) and Dr Bernstein (UCONN faculty) on winning the Internal Medicine Residency Fellowship Teaching Awards
What an exciting day seeing my mentor, @doctorbecca1 of @uconnhealth in her element — @ACPIMPhysicians on Capitol Hill on behalf of all internal medicine physicians and the patients that we serve! Thanks to @RepJoeCourtney for supporting affordable and accessible healthcare.
The GOP-led Education Committee is advancing a bill that guts student loan programs which will raise costs for borrowers. I introduced a measure to do the opposite. My SERVICE Act would make it easier, not harder, for public servants like Dr. Andrews to receive the loan relief…
ACP honors the inspiring women physicians worldwide. We thank the women of ACP for advancing #InternalMedicine. Learn how ACP advocates for #GenderEquity: bit.ly/3EfAfZf #NationalWomenPhysiciansDay #IMProud #IMPhysician
The details matter: measurement/assessment of quality of care is important -as is the validity and appropriateness of measurement. check out our paper! The Nuances of Performance Measurement and Clinical Guidelines | Annals of Internal Medicine acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/AN…
🔴Echocardiography and Pulmonary Embolism ⤵️ #2024Review 🔹link.springer.com/10.1007/978-3-… #POCUS #Cardiology #FOAMed #MedEd #medstudent #paramedic #Cardiology #CardioEd #medtwitter #meded #CardioTwitter #cardiotwiteros #MedX #cardiovascular #MedTwitter #medical
📚🩺 Join us for MKSAP Interactive Session with @rnardino and Dr. Barry Wu, at CT Chapter ACP Annual Scientific Meeting 2024! • Sharpen clinical skills • Prep for ABIM boards • Interactive learning #MKSAP19 #ABIM #BoardPrep #ctacp24
Honored to have received one of the Young Physician Research Awards from the Hartford County Medical Association alongside some outstanding colleagues from Hartford Hospital/UConn! @UConnIM @HHCardsFellows
The more I advance in my training, the more comfortable I am with saying 'I don’t know.' Our words in medicine have consequences, especially when we are surrounded by younger trainees. The data and information are readily available and we can always check and confirm.
Imagine winning a gold medal at the Olympics then next week you’re on rounds with a nephrologist answering questions about free water deficit
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We’re excited to introduce our 2024-2025 Advanced Endoscopy Fellows! Daryl Ramai, MD, MPH, MSc (@DarylRamai) came from Trinidad and completed his GI fellowship at @UofUHealth, after undergraduate studies at @CUNY, medical school at @StGeorgesU, and residency at @official_tbhc
📣 ATS Scholar Most Viewed Article of the Quarter 📣 How I Teach Auto-PEEP: Applying the Physiology of Expiration tinyurl.com/4p4v4sb5