Meeting
Abstract Number: 30
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Physicians spend more time on documentation and less on direct patient care. Burnout and career disengagement have been linked to time spent documenting in the electronic health record. A scribe program could reduce the documentation burden on hospitalists, increase revenue capture and improve the efficiency of the admission process. Purpose: We implemented a prospective […]
Abstract Number: 53
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Attending evaluations by medical students have many implications including promotion, teaching opportunities, job satisfaction and reputation both for individuals and for groups. In addition to teaching on traditional ward teams with housestaff and students, hospitalists are more commonly teaching in an apprenticeship model, where an attending, often carrying a full census, directly supervises and […]
Abstract Number: 223
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Since the advent of Electronic Health Record(EHR) and subsequent workload of clinical documentation, Hospital Medicine physicians are finding themselves spending more time in front of the computer and less with their patients. The implementation of EHR was intended to help physicians improve productivity and quality, however, data shows we are spending up to 25% […]