Background: Hospital medicine (HM) continues to be primarily composed of junior faculty and research has highlighted a paucity of mentors and academic output. Faculty advancement programs have been identified as a means to support junior faculty in their career trajectories and to advance the field. The optimal approach to supporting faculty development (FD) efforts is [...]

Background: Pediatric hospitalists are responsible for educating varying levels of learners while overseeing rounds to deliver high-quality care in an inpatient setting. While many teaching techniques are described, impactful teaching during rounds is a skill not always taught in training. Efficient utilization of teaching techniques is an endeavor that requires tutelage, repetition, and strategic practice. [...]

Background: Near-peer teaching is an educational relationship among students close in experience that has gained increasing recognition in medical education and has been shown to be as effective as traditional teaching methods. A sub-internship is a clinical rotation where senior medical students perform the role of an intern under housestaff and attending supervision. Many sub-interns [...]

Background: Peer observation and feedback (POF) is a well-documented tool for faculty development for both medical and non-medical educators. However, in our hospital medicine division of over 150 faculty at an urban academic center, only 16 peer observations were completed in the 2022-2023 academic year as part of our division’s voluntary, formally structured peer observation [...]

Background: End of rotation evaluations by attending physicians document resident performance and inform promotion. Unsatisfactory response rates and inadequate qualitative responses are a common problem. To address these issues, we implemented a single-question, Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) based assessment tool on our inpatient ward rotations and compared it to our existing ACGME milestone-based assessment tool. [...]

Background: The lack of competent teaching faculty is a major limitation to the expansion of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the field of inpatient and outpatient medicine despite the availability of approved training programs. Programmatic research demonstrates that participants have increased knowledge, skill and confidence immediately after a course. Currently there is insufficient data on long [...]

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become increasingly popular in medicine due to its ease of access, reduction in need for consultative ultrasonography, and usefulness in diagnosing common conditions [3,4,5]. The use of POCUS in the inpatient settings of emergency rooms, ICU, Surgical and Medical Wards has been established [3,4,5] The availability of ultrasound machines and [...]

Background: With the widespread implementation of rapid response system aimed at improving patient outcomes, providers are expected to perform the early detection, manage clinically deteriorating patients, and communicate effectively with rapid response teams (RRTs). Prior literature has reported that users of RRT described uncomfortable interactions, reduced clinical autonomy, role ambiguity, and a desire for improved [...]

Background: Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) comprise 19% of the adult population of California (1). Communication barriers between providers and patients with LEP contribute to health disparities and associate with increased adverse events (2,3). Working with professional interpreters associates with decreased hospital length-of-stay and readmission rates (4). However, few providers receive formal training on [...]

Background: SGLT-2 inhibitors are one of the emerging drugs in heart failure. Several meta-analyses prove its effect in reducing the composite outcome of cardiovascular death/hospitalization for heart failure but it is unknown if they contain all the primary studies hence a need for a pooled analysis Methods: We performed an umbrella analysis and used the [...]