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Abstract Number: 62
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Senior residents often serve as the primary educator for medical students and interns on their inpatient medicine rotations. Additionally, the act of teaching enhances the resident’s own knowledge acquisition and retention. Although residents desire to teach more, insufficient time is a barrier to preparing and providing teaching. Thus, senior residents require adequate resources to […]
Abstract Number: 66
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: At the University of Colorado, we developed the ‘Health Innovations Scholars Program’ (HISP), a 5-week intensive training program for pre-clinical medical students who seek to lead innovative transformation of the healthcare system. The program focuses on quality improvement, patient safety, leadership skills, design-thinking, and change management delivered through didactic sessions and applied to an […]
Abstract Number: 73
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Clinical empathy is associated with improved patient outcomes, but it is often difficult to teach to medical students. Our survey attempted to understand the perception of medical students regarding role of empathy in patient outcomes and ways to improve empathy training for medical students Methods: A qualtrics survey was distributed to 456 medical students […]
Abstract Number: 81
Hospital Medicine 2015, March 29-April 1, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Post-hospitalization follow-up is an important phase of care transitions. However, it continues to be a challenge for patients to keep office visit appointments made at the time of discharge, particularly if the visit is with a primary care physician that is new to the patient. Directly involving patients in the appointment scheduling process may […]
Abstract Number: 92
Hospital Medicine 2015, March 29-April 1, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Structured, interdisciplinary plan of care (IPOC) rounds appear to augment coordination of care and communication among health care workers and may offer additional benefits to patients, their families, and providers in the inpatient setting. However implementation of IPOC rounds in a large, busy tertiary center with a high acuity of illness is challenging. Purpose: […]
Abstract Number: 95
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
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 […]
Abstract Number: K4
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Every year, as many as 98,000 people die from medical errors within the hospital, making medical errors one of the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States(1). While the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has incorporated healthcare quality and patient safety into the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) program […]
Abstract Number: 102
Hospital Medicine 2015, March 29-April 1, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Hospitalists have become national leaders in quality and safety, and the Division of Hospital Medicine has spearheaded many safety and quality improvement initiatives in our institution. However, for faculty directly involved in patient care, our institution did not offer formal instruction in Safety, Quality and Efficiency that was readily adaptable to clinical schedules. Purpose: […]
Abstract Number: 120
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Acute Medical Assessment Units (AMAU) in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand improve inpatient flow and quality. It is critical to spread such best practices. Qatar, a GCC state (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and UAE) has tremendous recent population growth stressing the healthcare system. Hamad General Hospital (HGH), the main national hospital, […]
Abstract Number: 121
Hospital Medicine 2015, March 29-April 1, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Children with medical complexity experience repeated hospitalizations into young adulthood. At the University of Wisconsin, approximately 3 patients per week between ages 18-21 years are hospitalized at the children’s hospital, with over half of these patients having more than 3 chronic conditions as defined by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. These patients […]