Background: Hospitalist training tracks have been integrated into some internal medicine residency programs to help educate future hospitalists about Quality Improvement (QI), patient safety, and transitions in care. However, few educational programs exist for undergraduate students interested in the field of hospital medicine. Purpose: Create a longitudinal program for undergraduate students, specifically designed to expose [...]

Background: Competency in practice‐based learning (PBL) requires deliberately and rigorously questioning current practice, locating and accurately interpreting relevant literature and incorporating evidence into clinical decision‐making. Purpose: Our hospital medicine faculty, in collaboration with the internal medicine residency program and experienced medical informationinsts (medical librarians), develop our internal medicine residents to attain PBL knowledge, skills and [...]

Background: Educators are increasingly aware of the importance of preparing students for our new healthcare system and the value of teaching concepts around quality improvement (QI) and patient safety as part of the medical school curriculum. However, few institutions have formalized curricula around QI/safety and health policy/management for students. In addition, a frequent critique of [...]

Background: Medical residency training is a challenging period when residents make important decisions that steer the direction of their careers. It can be difficult to determine which experiences serve as validation of career goals and which experiences aid in personal growth. Mentoring relationships have often served the function of providing personalized guidance and support to [...]

Background: Medical students receive limited exposure to quality improvement (QI) at most medical schools, largely due to time and cost constraints. However, there is increased emphasis on QI in residencies and clinical practice and exposure to the principles of QI earlier in training may be of benefit. Novel, cost‐effective methods of introducing medical students to [...]

Background: Interprofessional collaboration is key for both student education in geriatrics and in the care of older adults, but is often underemphasized in medical education. Falls are a source of significant morbidity and mortality in the geriatric population. GeriWard Falls is an interprofessional team‐based curriculum focused on actively engaging health professions students to evaluate and [...]

Background: Patient‐centered medical care remains a primary goal of all health care providers and medical centers. Although the majority of providers believe they practice patient‐centered care, patients frequently do not understand their condition or care plan, and their psychosocial characteristics are not considered. One of the primary means for improving the patient‐centeredness of the care [...]

Background: Increasingly restrictive ACGME supervision requirements for PGY‐1 residents in the inpatient setting have been interpreted by some as a reflection of insufficiently prepared medical school graduates. Purpose: Curricular enhancement to fourth medical school curriculum with a particular focus on specialty specific inpatient topics relevant to the intern year can be an important tool in [...]

Background: Our hospitalist group designs and delivers the inpatient lecture series for our residency program and we strive to ensure the topics are applicable to inpatient medicine. This non‐clinical responsibility is an increasingly common situation for academic hospitalists. In fact, almost a quarter of all full‐time hospitalist are involved in direct teaching and about 15% [...]

Background: Hospital Medicine represents the fastest growing career choice of graduating residents from Internal Medicine training programs. Glasheen, et al have noted deficiencies in current Internal Medicine training for the growing role of hospitalists as they extend beyond traditional direct patient care. Non‐clinical training needs include health‐care economics, patient safety/quality improvement, continuums of care, leadership, [...]