Background: Robust faculty development programs are useful for teaching hospitalists who are often providing the largest portion of the education experience for residents in internal medicine and is key to maintaining institutional competence. This requires setting standards, assessing performance and providing developmental pathways, especially for faculty performing below standards. Community hospitals may not always have [...]

Background: For most of the past century, clinical medicine was taught almost exclusively at the bedside. Currently, learners participate in a variety of activities that may or may not include bedside teaching. Balancing quality patient care and teaching a diverse group of learners is often a challenge. Electronic health records (EHR) with an ever-growing amount [...]

Background: Although residency programs strive to train residents in effective teaching, few tools to provide direct observation and feedback exist. In our prior work, we developed and validated observed structured teaching exercises (OSTEs) for pediatric and internal medicine residents. Exercises include providing feedback on a presentation, teaching on rounds, teaching at the bedside, and giving [...]

Background: Residency training includes learning to be an educator; however, it can be difficult for residents to feel comfortable and empowered to teach. Further, it has been established that the current generation of learners prefers an environment that incorporates a sense of community while providing competitive challenges. Purpose: Our goal was to establish a program [...]

Background: With the advent of resident duty hour restrictions, many programs now utilize nightfloat rotations in place of resident overnight call, with emphasis on admissions and crosscover of medical patients. While these rotations foster resident development through enhanced autonomy, they often lack structured didactics or formalized learning experiences, in stark contrast with rigorous structures of [...]

Background: Third year medical students (MS3s) have not regarded the Pediatrics Clerkship at our institution with as high praise as other clerkships. Students cite a relative lack of teaching on the floors from pediatric residents as a key etiology. Interestingly, said residents endorse a desire to teach more. The most common barriers cited are time, [...]

Background: Academic hospitalists aspire to be highly effective teachers and must demonstrate excellence in teaching to be promoted. Internal Medicine (IM) residency programs increasingly rely on such hospitalists to supervise residents when they are on inpatient service. Accordingly, outstanding resident teaching and evaluations are imperative to the advancement of academic hospitalists and the success of [...]

Background: Discharge from an in-patient hospital stay is a critical opportunity to teach patients about their medications. Communication about medications and appropriate transition of care are two domains of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey via which patients evaluate hospitals. Communication about new medications and side effects is one of [...]