Background: With the advent of the Electronic Medical Record (EMR), documentation occupies up to 50% of doctors’ time1 and prior work has revealed that internal medicine residents spend more than four hours daily on documentation2. Secure messaging (SM) has been recently integrated into the inpatient EMR system, allowing healthcare team members to directly message physicians; [...]

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become increasingly popular in medicine due to its ease of access, reduction in need for consultative ultrasonography, and usefulness in diagnosing common conditions [3,4,5]. The use of POCUS in the inpatient settings of emergency rooms, ICU, Surgical and Medical Wards has been established [3,4,5] The availability of ultrasound machines and [...]

Background: The personal statement (PS) is a crucial factor in a residency program’s evaluation of applicants and has traditionally been helpful in understanding applicants’ journeys in medicine, values, and written communication skills. Now, with accessible large language models (i.e. ChatGPT) designed for language composition, there is interest in how these models may be utilized by [...]

Background: Hospital Medicine has been the fastest-growing field of physician practice over the past two decades in the United States, and hospitalists practice in a variety of institutional and geographical settings. The role of the “academic hospitalist” has arisen in response to the needs of academic medical centers and their associated medical schools and Internal [...]

Background: The Internal Medicine and Family Medicine residency programs were established at Hillsboro Medical Center (HMC), a small-sized community hospital, in 2021. As the multidisciplinary healthcare team adapts to incorporate resident trainees into the clinical workflow, the lack of resident exposure to Code Blue and rapid response scenarios was observed. Limited hands-on experience during medical [...]

Background: The traditional Morbidity and Mortality Conference (MMC) is known for its punitive aspects. Some programs have met the ACGME Internal Medicine (IM) requirement for MMC or Quality Improvement (QI) conferences by focusing on general principles of patient safety. We describe the impact of a QI-based MMC on resident perceptions of psychological safety and the [...]