Background: Hospital at Home (HaH) is a patient-centered care model that delivers acute-level services in patients’ homes, improving patient satisfaction, enhancing quality of care, reducing hospital costs, and increasing health system efficiency and throughput. Expanding house staff exposure to HaH serves three key purposes: first, it increases cultural buy-in from inpatient teams by fostering familiarity [...]

Background: Pediatric hospitalists at tertiary medical centers routinely collaborate with other hospitals, clinics and freestanding emergency departments via transfer center calls. These calls require medical decision-making, health system operations navigation, and professionalism in high-stress interactions with limited information. Education on transfer center calls, including concepts such as the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act [...]

Background: Within the time constraints of internal medicine (IM) residency curricula at large academic institutions, trainees interested in Hospital Medicine (HM) often lack exposure to the diverse experiences the field has to offer. Many training programs have begun to offer HM elective rotations which incorporate activities such as teaching, research, and quality improvement. At our [...]

Background: Proficiency in multiple languages as healthcare professionals can reduce miscommunication, enhance patient safety, and improve patient care in the clinical setting. In Washington counties, up to 51% of households speak a language other than English, and up to 12.6% speak an Asian or Pacific Island language. Purpose: The Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine’s [...]

Background: The effective use of health information technology and efficient workflow management are essential aspects of a well-trained medical professional. Without specific electronic health record (EHR) training, clinicians face information overload and time spent navigating information systems detracts from interacting with patients, scholarship, and education. Time motion studies have consistently noted that clinicians spend greater [...]

Background: Social drivers of health (SDoH) significantly impact health outcomes, including readmissions and mortality in hospitalized patients post-discharge. The National Academies of Medicine, Engineering, and Sciences (NASEM) created a “5As framework” to categorize activities that health systems can perform to integrate social care into medicine (awareness, adjustment, assistance, alignment, and advocacy), but the frequency of [...]

Background: linical teaching during busy inpatient afternoons is often inconsistent, leaving learners with variable educational experiences. Baseline data from our program revealed a large perception gap where a third of faculty believed afternoon teaching almost always occurred, while only a small fraction of clinicians reported the same. This gap highlighted the need for a structured [...]

Background: Residency programs across the country face mounting challenges in sustaining high-quality didactics amid rising service needs, staffing pressures, and increasing clinical complexity. Traditional lecture-based models often fail to engage learners who benefit from dynamic, case-based, and interactive educational formats. Simulation is known to be one of the most effective modalities for improving diagnostic reasoning [...]

Background: Rising inpatient complexity, residency duty-hour reforms, and anticipated national physician shortages are placing increasing strain on the hospital medicine workforce, resulting in greater utilization of nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). Despite this growing reliance on NP/ PA hospitalists, reports describe a wide variation in hospital medicine (HM) onboarding, limited pre-licensure HM-specific training, [...]

Background: Hospital medicine practitioners are uniquely positioned to understand the complexities and intricacies of inpatient care and hospital operations. Given the expertise of inpatient providers, hospitalists are often leaders of hospital-based committees and becoming more integral in executive level hospital leadership. As the field of hospital medicine continues to grow, there needs to be more [...]