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 [...]

Background: Interns feel stressed about assuming responsibility, prioritization of tasks and working in multi-professional teams when they transition to residency. Games offer the ability for learners to engage in active learning, application of knowledge, skill building, problem solving, time-management, simulated patient interaction and teamwork. A medical escape room can offer a unique opportunity to practice [...]

Background: Encounters with families and patients that speak a language other than English (LOE) are at high risks for worse outcomes: higher readmission rates, less health education, and increased adverse events. In contrast, concordant language use is associated with increased patient satisfaction, treatment adherence, and decreased adverse events. Purpose: To address outcome inequality for LOE, [...]

Background: The scope of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) use in hospital medicine continues to expand. Despite the noted benefits in diagnostic accuracy, the use of POCUS in hospital medicine is varied. A prospective study of hospitalists in 2022 showed that diagnostic POCUS use has increased nationally for cardiac, pulmonary, and abdominal applications. The most common barrier [...]

Background: Hospitalized patients have been shown to spend an average of 83% of their stay in bed(1), leading to loss of independence in activities of daily living and lower rates of discharge to home(2,3). Given staff shortages within the hospital setting and our desire to inspire prioritization of mobility in future healthcare providers, we hypothesized [...]

Background: Discrimination towards trainees is a pervasive problem and surveys show that it is often perpetrated by patients (1,2). Trainees are especially vulnerable to discriminatory behavior, with negative impacts on their education and wellbeing (3,4). Fellow clinicians, including faculty and advanced practice providers (APPs), play an important role in managing these issues and ensuring a [...]