Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed additional stress on the healthcare system. Not only do we face large volumes of high acuity patients, but also acute shortages of healthcare providers. Physician shortages were particularly pressing to our institution. COVID-19 patients were cohorted to our Hospital Medicine (MHS) service to minimize exposure and risks to house [...]

Background: Academic hospitalist faculty often feel poorly equipped to meet the variety of teaching and scholarship expectations placed on them. This can contribute to job dissatisfaction and burnout. There is a dearth of faculty development programs for hospital medicine faculty to meet this need. We developed, implemented, and evaluated a faculty development workshop series for [...]

Background: Hospitalists routinely precept third year medical students on general internal medicine wards. One of the key patient care tasks for students is to present and interpret common laboratory test abnormalities. Formal training in interpreting routine diagnostic tests is lacking for students transitioning from preclinical to clinical years. We designed and implemented a module on [...]