Background: The medical rounds are the most essential process in care of the hospitalized patients. If the patients do not receive enough information about the round-time, they cannot arrange their personal time in the hospital. The object of this study is to investigate the effect of the real-time round notification using text messages on the [...]

Background: End of rotation evaluations by attending physicians document resident performance and inform promotion. Unsatisfactory response rates and inadequate qualitative responses are a common problem. To address these issues, we implemented a single-question, Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) based assessment tool on our inpatient ward rotations and compared it to our existing ACGME milestone-based assessment tool. [...]

Background: The lack of competent teaching faculty is a major limitation to the expansion of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the field of inpatient and outpatient medicine despite the availability of approved training programs. Programmatic research demonstrates that participants have increased knowledge, skill and confidence immediately after a course. Currently there is insufficient data on long [...]

Background: Patients with limited English proficiency (LEP) comprise 19% of the adult population of California (1). Communication barriers between providers and patients with LEP contribute to health disparities and associate with increased adverse events (2,3). Working with professional interpreters associates with decreased hospital length-of-stay and readmission rates (4). However, few providers receive formal training on [...]

Background: Since the pilot project for the “hospitalist system” began in South Korea in September 2016, hospitalists have been delivering specialized care to inpatients, serving as experts in the field of hospitalization. Given the various reasons such as duty rotations, surgical procedures, and transfers, it is essential for hospitalized patients to undergo changes in their [...]

Background: Whiteboard mini lectures (WMLs), a “chalk talk” subtype, are interactive, small group sessions that use a whiteboard and markers as the primary teaching tools, A distinguishing feature of WMLs is the flexibility to creatively teach material by combining written text with novel, hand-drawn visuals such as diagrams, flow charts, and graphics. Assessment of WMLs [...]

Background: For the past 4 years, we have taught PGY-2 residents basic skills in lung, cardiac, abdominal, and vascular POCUS based on national courses. Current methods of assessing POCUS skills focus on image acquisition and image interpretation without clinical context, however using POCUS for patient care requires the clinician to integrate their findings to a [...]