Background: Facilitating safe transitions of care is a common concern for the discharging hospitalist. Telephone calls are the most common method of contact for post-discharge outreach. These are labor-intensive and therefore limited in scope. To better support patients after hospital discharge, we designed and implemented a 30-day automated texting program. In a pilot study, this [...]

Background: Facilitating safe transitions of care is a common concern for the discharging hospitalist. Telephone calls are the most common method of contact for post-discharge outreach. These are labor-intensive and therefore limited in scope. To better support patients after hospital discharge, we designed and implemented a 30-day automated texting program. In a pilot study, this [...]

Background: To date, there are limited reports around the use of well-designed information technology tools to enhance throughput communication during interdisciplinary rounds (IDRs). In collaboration with our technology innovations center, we developed a Microsoft Teams IDR tool known as “NORA.” NORA is an automated process-oriented tool designed to extract patient summary information from electronic health [...]

Background: Virtual Hospitalist (VH) care models are emerging in hospital medicine to address workforce shortages and improve patient access. VH programs are any programs where the hospitalist and patient are located at different sites, but the patient requires an acute level of care. This can include arrangements where: 1) the patient is located in a [...]

Background: The hospitalists affiliated with academic institutions typically have professional expectations to serve as clinician-educators. Despite these faculty expectations, few hospitalists have explicit training in how to teach effectively and lack formal experience in developing these skills. There is both a demand and need for sanctioned educational opportunities for academic hospitalists to refine their teaching [...]

Background: Human trafficking is pervasive, with over 80% of victims encountering healthcare providers during their exploitation (Egyud et al., 2017). Health care professionals are uniquely positioned to screen for patients possibly at risk of being trafficked. However, there are critical gaps regarding education of healthcare professionals on human trafficking. This project aims to address this [...]

Background: A crowning step upon graduation from internal medicine (IM) residency training is the successful completion of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) licensing exam. ABIM Initial Certification Exam pass rates declined significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic from the preceding 4-year rolling test rate for first-time takers. Graduates of our IM residency training program [...]

Background: The prevalence of burnout is 45% in medical students and 35% in residents, while depression is similar at around 30%.1,2,3,4 In 2017, ACGME revised its common program requirements to emphasize “psychological, emotional, and physical well-being as critical in the development of the competent, caring, and resilient physician.”5 The 2022 CLER report found the “pandemic [...]

Background: Hospital discharge is a complex process for patients, caregivers, and providers. A patients’ understanding of new diagnoses, medications, and appointments improves the capacity for self-care and post-discharge outcomes. A new “Team Discharge” initiative was piloted to improve patients’ understanding of the discharge plan through patient-centeredness and interdisciplinary communication during the critical transition from hospital [...]