Background: Recently coined the “fifth pillar to the bedside physical exam” in a 2018 JAMA article, a growing number of physicians have started incorporating point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) into their clinical assessments. Many medical schools have already started to integrate POCUS into their educational curriculum. With the emergence of more affordable handheld solutions, practicing physicians and [...]

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become a ubiquitous tool in clinical care. However, the optimal timing and methods of POCUS integration into medical education remains unknown. We aim to identify and evaluate the baseline competency, improvement and feedback from trainees after participating the POCUS curriculum. Methods: In 2017, National Taiwan University hospitalists established a standardized [...]

Background: Journal club is a frequently used avenue in residency programs for teaching critical evaluation of the medical literature. Common structures include prerequisite reading of an article and then a presentation or discussion about the article in a small or large group format. Journal Club represents an opportunity to develop skills in literature appraisal and [...]

Background: Clinical empathy is associated with improved patient outcomes, but it is often difficult to teach to medical students. Our survey attempted to understand the perception of medical students regarding role of empathy in patient outcomes and ways to improve empathy training for medical students Methods: A qualtrics survey was distributed to 456 medical students [...]

Background: Academic hospitalist play a crucial role in providing quality patient care, medical education and research. With increase in work load the burnout of hospitalist has significantly increased. This is influencing their well being as well as patient care and medical students teaching. We conducted this survey based project to study the perception of academic [...]

Background: Mentoring skills are valuable assets for academic medicine faculty, who support academic excellence including scholarly productivity of the next generation of physicians. But mentoring students and residents in scholarly projects is often challenged by increased clinical, administrative, research, and other educational demands on medical faculty. And since clinician educators rarely receive training on the [...]

Background: Third year medical student in their internal medicine clerkship rotate with the resident teaching services as well as resident uncovered hospitalist teams.When assigned to a hospitalist service for their internal medicine clerkship, the student is typically paired one to one with a hospitalist physician in general internal medicine.In this study we surveyed third year [...]

Background: The buzzword of the decade for hospital medicine is geography. Geographic ACUs have been in existence for years at our institution on non-teaching floors. The ACUs have improved overall throughput, quality and patient experience. Our hospitalists have embraced the ACU philosophy due to ease of rounding, interdisciplinary approach to patient care and its 7on/7off [...]

Background: At academic centers the work of discharge planning has historically fallen on housestaff. The medical education community’s efforts to improve the trainee experience have led to an iterative process of duty hour reform and re-design. One effect has been “work compression” – each day a trainee is required to complete more tasks in less [...]

Background: Little is known about the effectiveness of simulation training for medical students entering internal medicine (IM) residency. Post clerkship students have been found to lack confidence and competence in many of the clinical situations they will face as interns. Using simulation as part of the IM Transition to Internship Course, we sought to increase [...]