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: A robust QI curriculum provides residents with the knowledge of QI methodologies and allows them to participate in a longitudinal QI initiative, demonstrating the skills required to implement, analyze, and present a full PDSA cycle. Limitations to having all residents in a training program be meaningful participants in ambitious QI projects are in large […]

Background: Increasingly, hospitals and health systems have looked to hospital medicine physicians to lead initiatives, locally and on a broader level. At our institutions, two 600+ bed, academic, tertiary care medical centers located outside of New York City, members of our 120-physician hospital medicine group (HMG) are often asked to champion initiatives aimed at quality/process […]

Background: The field of Hospital Medicine continues to expand and diversify in exciting ways, but it’s well known that we lag behind other fields in scholarly output and promotion (1,2). Our academic group has grown from 62 to 135 partners over the last 5 years, bringing in a plethora of new interests and areas of […]

Background: Continuing medical education (CME) sessions that teach the principles of root cause analysis (RCA) and offer CME credit to attendees are already widely available (1.) However, to our knowledge, no institutions offer physicians CME credit for participation in actual RCAs that are conducted to investigate real adverse events. A 2015 review recommended increasing the […]