Meeting
Abstract Number: N23
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Career exploration and professional identity formation (PIF) are critical in undergraduate medical education (UME). With its focus on management of acutely ill, hospitalized patients, Hospital Medicine (HM) is an opportune environment for pre-clinical students to gain valuable, diverse clinical experiences. While widely utilized in UME, shadowing on HM direct-care services (HM-DCS) (i.e., those without […]
Abstract Number: O19
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Evidence-Based and Informed Clinical Practice is identified by the ACGME as a core clinical milestone (PBLI1). The Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) curriculum in the University of Wisconsin (UW) Internal Medicine Residency Program previously focused on didactics, journal clubs, and independent study. The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted these traditional EBM teaching methods, prompting us to re-evaluate […]
Abstract Number: P46
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: Prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE) is predominantly caused by staphylococcus aureusand streptococcus viridian. Infective endocarditis (IE) due to Burkholderia cepacia israre. We present a case of a 27-year-old man with history of injection drug use, IE of aorticand mitral valve status post replacement with bioprosthetic valves 6 months ago, whopresented with fever, chills, dyspnea and […]
Oral Presentations
Abstract Number: OP10
SHM Converge 2022
Background: The availability of beds within healthcare systems has been stressed during each wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Healthcare systems with tertiary hospitals have had increasing patient volumes and face limitations of specialized urgent (e.g., ECMO) and routine (e.g., Percutaneous Coronary Intervention) functions during critical inpatient surge volumes. Reserving the limited capacity at a tertiary […]