Background: Unlike other chronic conditions such as diabetes mellitus and heart disease, substance use disorder (SUD) has only recently been recognized by the medical community recently as a medical condition, and stigmatizing beliefs have lingered. Formal teaching about SUD has been shown to foster a more positive attitude towards these patients among medical trainees. Attitudes [...]

Background: Anti-Black racism is embedded in American healthcare, (1) with roots in the structure and curriculum of medical education. (2) Dismantling racism in health care demands that medical education promote racial justice at all levels, from pre-clinical curriculum to clinical training and beyond. (3) However, there are significant barriers to teaching anti-racism content in the [...]

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound is defined as a goal-directed, bedside ultrasound examination performed by a health care provider to answer a specific diagnostic question or to guide the performance of an invasive procedure. Its use has been endorsed by the American Academy of Family Physicians, American College of Physicians, and the Society of Hospital Medicine. Yet [...]

Background: Many cancer centers use the hospitalist model in the inpatient setting (1) since hospitalists provide high quality, cost efficient care (2). Our 678-bed quaternary hospital uses oncology hospitalist teams to care for all inpatients with solid tumor malignancies with medical oncology and palliative care consulting as needed. Internal medicine residents and advanced practice fellows [...]

Background: The Vizient Quality and Accountability scorecard is a tool that measures academic medical centers (AMCs) clinical performance, focusing on quality and safety while targeting specific opportunities for improvement. The Vizient quality domains include Mortality, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Equity, Patient Experience, and Patient safety. In an academic setting, the frontline healthcare providers are resident physicians. As [...]