Background: Poor noon conference attendance is a universal problem across residency programs, particularly for inpatient rotations. Residents commonly face the decision to either attend a conference or continue their work on busy services. Food incentives, mandatory attendance standards, or implementation of consequences for absences are largely ineffective. Conversely, a study suggests that lecture topics and [...]

Background: The Hospitalist track at Cooper Hospital was created to provide residents with the opportunity to learn more about the different non-clinical aspects of hospital medicine. The track is divided into four weeks: one didactic week and three junior hospitalist weeks, which serve as the inpatient clinical experience. Additionally, there are four elective weeks that [...]

Background: Gamification is a novel and evolving concept in the digital age of medical education (1,2). Traditionally, gamification efforts have focused on single session interventions such as Jeopardy-style lectures or online tools like Kahoot (3). More recently, educators have used escape rooms with puzzles themed around concepts in medicine (4). However, single experiences within a [...]

Background: Newly graduated advanced practice providers (APP) face numerous hurdles in hospital medicine which may hinder the independent practice of APPs. APPs are tasked with assessing, diagnosing, beginning treatments, and discussing recommendations from various specialists with patients and their families. Despite overlapping responsibilities with physicians, there is wide variation in how APPs are prepared, both [...]

Background: In the United States, vulnerable communities experience significant health disparities, which are largely driven by various social, economic, and environmental factors. Addressing these disparities requires a multifaceted approach and reinforces the need to equip healthcare providers with the needed awareness, competence, and expertise. Given that resident physicians represent a significant proportion of frontline healthcare [...]

Background: Written patient discharge instructions play an important role in patient education upon discharge from the hospital. Writing clear, concise instructions is documented to reduce re-admission rates. [1,2] Despite the importance of well-written discharge instructions, we found that medical students at our institution received little formal education in writing discharge instructions during their pre-clinical courses [...]

Background: Effective mentorship of junior faculty correlates with future academic success and career sustainability.1,2 Traditional approaches to mentorship involve pairing mid- and late-career faculty with junior faculty randomly or based on compatible interests and allowing the relationship to evolve as driven by the mentee’s needs. After organized attempts to implement mentorship programs along traditional lines [...]

Background: Disseminating scholarly work is an important skill in academic medicine, but it’s not often taught in a systematic way. This may disadvantage students from underrepresented and underprivileged backgrounds who don’t have role models in the biomedical sciences. Writing a clinical vignette – defined as a patient-related case that has educational value to a wider [...]

Background: A core ability of a capable Internal Medicine resident is ability to manage inpatient emergencies like arrhythmias and cardiac arrest. However, between 30-35% of first-year residents at our residency program fail their first attempt at an arrhythmia and cardiac arrest simulation exam, and more than 75% report not feeling confident by the end of [...]

Background: Transitioning from undergraduate medical education (UME) to graduate medical education (GME) can be a challenging time for learners as they assume new roles as physicians and adjust to a new clinical environment. Our role as medical educators can play a key part in easing this transition from medical student to resident. To bridge the [...]