Background: Rounds are critical for facilitating patient care, supporting interprofessional communication and providing education for trainees (1,2). Social distancing requirements in the era of COVID led to significant changes to the traditional rounding structure (3). The impact of these changes on patient care, interprofessional communication and education remain unknown. Methods: An interprofessional needs assessment was [...]

Background: Research using the inpatient setting for interprofessional education (IPE) is sparse. At Duke Regional Hospital, the interprofessional team caring for general medicine teaching service patients includes residents, interns, medical students, physician assistant (PA) students, pharmacy students and residents, pharmacists, nurses, case managers and attending physicians. Purpose: To determine the educational and operational measures needed [...]

Background: Enhanced physician-nurse collaboration improves patient outcomes. Current interprofessional clinical learning environments, however, rarely engage physicians with nurses and are not based on high-performance team frameworks. Therefore, leaders at the University of Chicago Medicine developed the Improving GME Nursing Interprofessional Team Experiences (IGNITE) program to engage interprofessional healthcare teams, with hospitalist coaches, in institutional performance [...]

Background: Studies, particularly the MARQUIS trial, have demonstrated the value of pharmacist-led medicine reconciliation. At our institution, we partnered with the College of Pharmacy to implement, revise, and grow a novel hospitalist-led transitions of care pharmacy student rotation. Pharmacy students work directly with attending hospitalists to address admission medication reconciliation errors and collaborate in the [...]

Background: Capturing appropriate clinical documentation allows providers to best approach treating patients and can also be utilized for quality monitoring of outcomes within health systems. Mortality measures are used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for reimbursement and payment. (1) Observed mortality includes all deaths which occur in the hospital during a [...]