Background: Advanced practice providers (APPs) such as nurse practitioners and physician assistants have become an important addition to the hospital medicine team with the growing demand for physician providers. As APPs experience variable exposure to hospital medicine during training, the Society of Hospital Medicine and other governing bodies such as the American Academy of Physician [...]

Background: There is a growing emphasis on teaching Quality Improvement (QI) to resident physicians and medical students. Successful QI training for residents and students requires faculty role models, teachers and mentors. However, faculty with QI skills and knowledge is lacking at many academic medical centers. Active learning programs to improve faculty capacity for QI have [...]

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is nothing less than a paradigm shift in patient care. The technology has advanced rapidly and the competence in performing, interpreting and utilizing POCUS is extremely variable. There is often an inversion in competence with medical students and residents, in general, having more competence in this modality than many of their [...]