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Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Across the field of Hospital Medicine, there is a “call to arms” to build robust faculty development programs(1). Medical education and clinical teaching are common career interests for early career hospitalists (ECH), defined as hospitalists ≤5 years since postgraduate training. ECH often pursue academic positions to explore an interest in medical education, but find […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: In the dawning era of precision medicine, increasingly sophisticated tools are becoming available to diagnose and investigate rare and unexplained diseases. The application of these tools to clinical practice will require new models of collaboration between clinicians, tool developers, and laboratory investigators. Many structural barriers to such collaboration exist in our current healthcare delivery […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Somatic Symptom and Related Disorders (SSRD) is an umbrella term for a wide variety of disorders commonly encountered in the inpatient pediatric setting, including conversion disorder, amplified pain syndrome, and psychogenic non-epileptiform seizures. These patients can be high utilizers of medical resources. The hospitalist is often charged with ruling out a medical diagnosis and […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Executing safe transitions of care for hospitalized patients is important because of the vulnerability of patients during this time period. While hospital-based providers frequently schedule appointments on behalf of their patients prior to discharge, cancellations and non-attendance (“no-shows”) for post-discharge follow-up appointments are anecdotally common and diminish the quality of patient care. Little is […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Co-management across service lines has become increasingly common in hospital medicine. While debate continues over clinical outcomes, some co-management arrangements have led to enhanced provider satisfaction, which may have implications for burnout. We have established successful co-management services with orthopedics, urology (GU), otorhinolaryngology (ENT), trauma and neurosurgery (NS). We are a large urban/suburban academic […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Hospitalization is costly, associated with the potential for adverse medical events and may have deleterious health effects. Hospitalist physicians are uniquely positioned to help patients avoid unnecessary hospitalizations. Our attending-only hospitalist practice in a tertiary academic center admits approximately 350 patients monthly, the majority of which are referred through the emergency department (ED). Our […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Creating a Best Practice for Discharges Against Medical Advice Background: Nationally, 1-2% of medical discharges from hospitals are against medical advice (AMA). Patients that leave AMA are at higher risk for readmission and adverse health events. At our facility, FY 2014 data revealed that 1% of discharges from the medical/surgical wards were AMA. The 30 […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is the third leading cause of hospital readmissions in America. Over one-third of patients admitted for COPD exacerbations are readmitted within 90 days, with readmissions costing $15 billion. Medicare instituted financial penalties for excessive readmissions after COPD hospitalizations, incentivizing the creation of readmission prediction tools. Two such tools, the […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: A growing body of evidence supports the use of point of care ultrasound increasingly as augmentation of the physical exam and clinical decision making. The literature also supports that trainees, both medical students and residents, can acquire these skills. However, there is no consensus on the training approach and development of competency for hospitalists […]
Oral Presentations
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: In 2015, medical students in their clinical clerkships (traditionally known as third year medical students) began rotating directly with hospitalist attendings. As we began crafting the rotation, we sought to provide value that was not leveraged elsewhere in their clerkships. Different organizations, including the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and Association of American Medical […]