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Abstract Number: 421
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Interhospital transfer is a poorly understood transition of care that is associated with increased length of stay and mortality. The processes and communication between transferring and accepting facilities and providers are not standardized. Purpose: Hospitalist faculty education on triage processes is an area for potential intervention to improve interhospital transfer. New faculty hires are […]
Abstract Number: 459
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Regardless of specialty or discipline, healthcare professionals are tasked with addressing high value care (HVC). It is therefore crucial that hospitalists and other members of the interprofessional team have training in addressing HVC, specifically around education and incorporating HVC into clinical practice and health systems improvement activities. Purpose: We developed a longitudinal curriculum at […]
Abstract Number: B20
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Mentorship and sponsorship (a relationship of professional support and endorsement) are both teachable and learnable skills that are crucial for medical faculties to have in academic medicine. Unfortunately, these skills are rarely formally taught or measured as part of faculty development. Medical education has started to incorporate more structured mentoring (typically by assigning each […]
Abstract Number: G19
SHM Converge 2022
Background: A robust QI curriculum provides residents with the knowledge of QI methodologies and allows them to participate in a longitudinal QI initiative, demonstrating the skills required to implement, analyze, and present a full PDSA cycle. Limitations to having all residents in a training program be meaningful participants in ambitious QI projects are in large […]
Abstract Number: J20
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Increasingly, hospitals and health systems have looked to hospital medicine physicians to lead initiatives, locally and on a broader level. At our institutions, two 600+ bed, academic, tertiary care medical centers located outside of New York City, members of our 120-physician hospital medicine group (HMG) are often asked to champion initiatives aimed at quality/process […]
Abstract Number: L20
SHM Converge 2022
Background: The field of Hospital Medicine continues to expand and diversify in exciting ways, but it’s well known that we lag behind other fields in scholarly output and promotion (1,2). Our academic group has grown from 62 to 135 partners over the last 5 years, bringing in a plethora of new interests and areas of […]
Abstract Number: O20
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Continuing medical education (CME) sessions that teach the principles of root cause analysis (RCA) and offer CME credit to attendees are already widely available (1.) However, to our knowledge, no institutions offer physicians CME credit for participation in actual RCAs that are conducted to investigate real adverse events. A 2015 review recommended increasing the […]
Oral Presentations
Abstract Number: Oral
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Large hospital medicine groups of 30 or more physicians comprise over 20% of practices (SHM 2018). Our academic hospital medicine service is comprised of 65 faculty members. We recognized a need for multiple levels of leadership beyond the immediate chief and director of clinical operations. Our team, like most hospital medicine groups, is comprised […]
Plenary Presentations
Abstract Number: Plenary
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 […]