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Abstract Number: 878
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Case Presentation: An 80-year-old man with hypertension, coronary artery disease s/p PCI and new-onset depression on SSRI presented with slurred speech due to a sensation of tongue heaviness that started 3 days prior to presentation. Acute stroke was ruled out and further history revealed the patient experienced multiple falls over the past 4 years, each […]
Abstract Number: 973
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 19-year-old woman with a history of polysubstance abuse and recent e-cigarette/vaping product use associated lung injury (EVALI) presented to the Emergency Room (ER) at a rural medical center with Acute Respiratory Failure and Altered Mental Status (AMS). Pt was 3 months post-partum. Past medical history included chronic migraine headaches and Grave’s disease. […]
Abstract Number: A21
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Mentorship has long been an impactful process in the training of medical students and physicians. It is apparent that young professionals benefit from mentorship, but how to maximize this benefit is unknown. We elected to approach the revitalization of our mentorship program through a 6-month human centered design (HCD) project to form a curriculum […]
Abstract Number: A41
SHM Converge 2022
Case Presentation: A 45-year-old Vietnamese female with history of H. pylori who presented with worsening nausea, vomiting, epigastric abdominal pain and early satiety. Patient reported her epigastric pain had been intermittent for the past six months but had acutely worsen in the last two weeks. There were no initial inciting events that triggered these symptoms. […]
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: D22
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Quality Improvement (QI) is a methodology for solving complex systems problems, and QI methods have been adapted from industry and spread widely across healthcare over the past two decades. QI methods are particularly well-suited for examining clinical processes for effectiveness, reliability, and efficiency. However, Design Thinking (DT) is a problem solving methodology that applies […]
Abstract Number: G16
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Hospital clinicians may identify the presence of a patient’s comorbid conditions, overall severity of illness, and clinical status at discharge as risk factors for readmission after COVID-19 hospitalization. Objective data are lacking to support reliance on these factors for discharge decision-making. Objectives included examination of risk factors for readmission to hospital after COVID-19 hospitalization […]
Abstract Number: H19
SHM Converge 2022
Background: There is recognition by educational regulatory bodies that physicians need to have some level of leadership skills. In 2007 the Residency Review Committee for Family Medicine approved a new requirement for training in leadership during family medicine residency. Seven years later in 2014, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education published the relationship between physician […]
Abstract Number: O22
SHM Converge 2022
Background: In Hospital Medicine, triaging a patient is the process of evaluating an admitted patient and assigning the patient to an appropriate service. Triaging patients is a manual and challenging process which burdens Hospitalists. As with any manual process, there is an inherent risk of missed steps, and in the case of patient triage, the […]
Abstract Number: P19
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Mentorship and sponsorship (a relationship of professional support and endorsement), are essential avenues for professional success, combatting burnout, and improving equity and representation of women and URMs in medicine. Unfortunately, traditional measures of mentorship quality and success are one-dimensional and are of limited value; academic medicine rarely teaches menteeship or mentorship skills, relies on […]