Background: Since the ACGME established duty hour limits in 2003, there has been an increasing prevalence of night float rotations in internal medicine residency training. Conferences and formal didactics are a critical component of resident education. However, residents on night float rotations typically miss these essential educational activities that are typically held during the daytime [...]

Background: For the clinician-educator, balancing patient care duties with educational responsibilities can be challenging.1 New methods are needed to augment the current toolkit of time-efficient teaching methods, which include strategies like the “one-minute preceptor” or bedside rounds.2 One educational strategy of interest is task-based learning (TBL), which structures learning around a clinical task.3,4 Rather than [...]

Background: Faculty development (FD) programs increase faculty engagement, retention, work satisfaction, and collective success, but many hospitalist groups struggle with implementing FD programs due to limited time, lack of support for faculty participation, and curricula that often do not align with faculty priorities. A recent qualitative study exploring FD from 17 academic hospital medicine programs [...]