Background: Women represented 55.4% of U.S medical school matriculants in 2023. [1] Parents-in-training report high levels of parental stress. Women more often identify as the primary caregiver, anticipate training extensions, and face barriers to breastfeeding and childcare stress. [2] We aimed to identify opportunities to ease the return to work for birthing parents. Purpose: We [...]

Background: Many hospitalists at academic institutions are eager to grow as effective clinical educators but face barriers that limit their development opportunities. With limited time on teaching wards, hospitalists have fewer chances to engage in “learning by doing” in their roles as educators. Many who enter these positions straight after residency are expected to serve [...]

Background: At many academic institutions, medical students in their last year of training participate in transition-to-residency (TTR) courses. At our institution, our TTR course includes residency-specific tracks including one for students transitioning into Internal Medicine. Purpose: Despite the frequency of cross-cover care, studies note that this skill is not often formally taught, and most incoming [...]

Background: Access to “fresh” admissions, in which an admitting team is the first to evaluate a new patient apart from emergency department (ED) staff, is critical to the experience and skill development of medical trainees, particularly interns. Fewer fresh admissions were assigned to teaching teams at Yale New Haven Hospital between 2019-2021 due to system-level [...]

Background: Faculty development (FD) programs increase faculty engagement, retention, work satisfaction, and collective success, but many hospitalist groups struggle with implementing FD programs due to limited time, lack of support for faculty participation, and curricula that often do not align with faculty priorities. A recent qualitative study exploring FD from 17 academic hospital medicine programs [...]

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 [...]