The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) Wiregrass Chapter is pleased to announce winners from its annual scientific poster competition held recently at the Alabama College of Osteopathic Medicine (ACOM) in Dothan.

The competition included medical students from ACOM, Internal Medicine residents from Southeast Health Graduate Medical Education (GME) program and Southeast Health Medical Center hospitalists. There were also poster presentations from institutions outside of the Wiregrass, which reflects the growing interest in the competition throughout the region.

The poster competition winners along with the first author are:

· Clinical Vignette: Sarah Yoon fourth ACOM student – Cough-Induced Spontaneous Intercostal Lung Herniation in a Woman with Asthma: A Rare Cause of Acute Back Pain.

· Narrative Review: Ana Villegas second year ACOM student – Association Between Childhood Eczema and Difficulties in Attention, Cognition, and Learning.

· Medical Education, Outreach, Clinical Innovation and Clinical Research: David Boose third year ACOM student – Concurrent Brachial Plexus and Muscular Variations of the Arm: A Rare Cadaveric Observation.

· Population Health: Christian Constable second year ACOM student –Preoperative Opioid Use and Outcomes After Total Joint Arthroplasty: A Literature Synthesis with Geographic Cross-Referencing of Opioid Claims and Orthopedic Surgeon Density

Athena Zhang, first year resident at Southeast Health PGY-1, was selected for nomination to the SHM National Conference for her poster on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease mimicking Guillain-Barré syndrome in a patient with high-grade cervical stenosis.

Congratulations to all the winners on their outstanding achievement.