Background: Academic hospital medicine (HM) faculty typically follow clinician educator tracks with academic hospitalists seeing education as their primary motivation for joining academic programs. According to the 2020 State of Hospital Medicine survey, shifts and clinical work hours for academic HM faculty expectations are similar to community practice (ref). Many academic HM faculty are on […]

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training was recently endorsed by the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (1) and the demand for training is increasing among internal medicine (IM) residency programs (2). Longitudinal POCUS training increases knowledge and skill retention compared to stand-alone workshops (3,4), but few programs currently provide longitudinal training due to institutional barriers, such […]

Case Presentation: The patient was a 73 year old gentleman with a recent diagnosis of heart failure with preserved ejection fraction presenting with weight gain, worsening dyspnea, lower extremity edema, and urinary incontinence since beginning furosemide two months previously. Labs were notable for a creatinine of 2.68 mg/dL from a baseline of 1.0 mg/dL. The […]