Background: Nationally, internal medicine (IM) residency programs have been struggling with the balance of protecting residents from exposure to COVID-19, ensuring they are sufficiently trained in general medicine while still teaching them about a new disease process and preparing them to help fight the pandemic (1). Anxiety is common amongst providers in a pandemic, especially [...]

Background: Career success as an Internal Medicine (IM) physician requires more than exceptional medical knowledge and patient care. In professional practice, IM physicians hold leadership positions in multidisciplinary patient care groups, spearhead change management initiatives and lead quality improvement projects1,2. Despite the documented importance of physician leadership skills3,4, there is little time devoted to leadership [...]

Background: Naloxone is a medication that reverses opioid overdose in emergency situations and prevents deaths. A group of 55 Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS) medical students were trained by REVIVE!, a program that educates on how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose emergency with the administration of naloxone. We evaluated whether there is [...]

Background: It is typical for new advanced practice providers (APPs) to onboard within our hospital medicine division for at least six months. With the arrival of the first Covid-19 surge in Spring 2020, we onboarded a dozen off-service APPs on a much shorter timeline, typically one week. This required intensive precepting and teaching. As the [...]

Background: Nationally, internal medicine (IM) residency programs have been struggling with the balance of protecting residents from exposure to COVID-19, ensuring they are sufficiently trained in general medicine while still teaching them about a new disease process and preparing them to help fight the pandemic (1). Anxiety is common amongst providers in a pandemic, especially [...]