Background: Hospital Medicine is a young and growing specialty. About 50% of our academic hospital medicine group of nearly 70 physicians are in their first 5 years out of residency. And about 90% of our faculty are millennials (born 1982-2000), the fastest-growing generation in the workforce and the first generation to grow up in a […]

Background: Resistance in learning (RIL) defines a set of attitudes or behaviors demonstrated by learners in an educational setting that result in decreased learning. Literature describes the etiology as multifactorial, including learning environment, characteristics of the learner, and teaching style. Hospitalists often use quality improvement methodology, such as PDSA cycles to improve the clinical care […]