Background: Promoting scholarship and mentorship among trainees and faculty is important for individual career development. Faculty who mentor trainees in improving scholarship performance, help improve their own academic and professional growth. However, many barriers limit faculty engagement in mentoring trainees, including limited time and lack of accessible resources, institutional/leadership support, formal training, and faculty development/structured [...]

Background: The Advanced Practice Fellowship at the University of Colorado Hospital is a 13-month post-graduate program designed to provide Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants with the medical knowledge and clinical skills necessary to practice hospital based medicine. As part of the program, Advanced practice fellows (APFs) have historically attended the internal medicine case conference, which [...]

Background: Pediatric hospitalists are responsible for educating varying levels of learners while overseeing rounds to deliver high-quality care in an inpatient setting. While many teaching techniques are described, impactful teaching during rounds is a skill not always taught in training. Efficient utilization of teaching techniques is an endeavor that requires tutelage, repetition, and strategic practice. [...]

Background: Near-peer teaching is an educational relationship among students close in experience that has gained increasing recognition in medical education and has been shown to be as effective as traditional teaching methods. A sub-internship is a clinical rotation where senior medical students perform the role of an intern under housestaff and attending supervision. Many sub-interns [...]

Background: Peer observation and feedback (POF) is a well-documented tool for faculty development for both medical and non-medical educators. However, in our hospital medicine division of over 150 faculty at an urban academic center, only 16 peer observations were completed in the 2022-2023 academic year as part of our division’s voluntary, formally structured peer observation [...]

Background: Pediatric hospitalists are responsible for educating various levels of learners when overseeing rounds to provide high quality care to patients and families. While many effective teaching techniques are described in the literature, efficient teaching on rounds is a skill not always taught during training. The effective use of these techniques by pediatric hospitalists is [...]

Background: Pediatric hospitalists are responsible for providing high quality care in the hospital setting while teaching learners and maintaining a professional learning environment. This skill is rarely taught during medical training. Peer observation is a collaborative tool with potential for mutual benefit; offering the observer an opportunity to learn new strategies and the individual observed [...]

Background: The advent of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) has changed the face of medical documentation. Illegibility and absence of data have all but disappeared, and EHRs can foster thoughtful assessments by providing a platform to craft differential diagnoses. However, EHRs have also introduced features like “copy and paste” and “blow in” templates that can [...]

Background: Hospital discharges represent an important transition of care between the inpatient and outpatient setting. Discharge summary documentation enables providers to convey clinical reasoning and important updates in patient care; however, reviews of these documents suggest error rates as high as 36.4% (1.42 errors per document) (McMillen, et. al. 2006). Formalized resident discharge summary curricula [...]

Background: Mortality review, well-documented in the medical literature, is a standardized process used to identify patient safety improvement opportunities and also to evaluate providers. As patient safety experts, hospitalists often review mortality cases for their hospitalist group or hospital. As the volume of cases is often not trivial, it can be difficult to allocate the [...]