Meeting
Abstract Number: 62
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: The concept of using Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) in undergraduate medical education (UME) arose because residency program directors noticed a significant decline in their interns’ ability to perform the basic skills required of them upon starting residency. The internal medicine (IM) sub-internship (sub-I) rotation is primed to address the EPAs especially pertinent to the […]
Abstract Number: 72
SHM Converge 2024
Background: End of rotation evaluations by attending physicians document resident performance and inform promotion. Unsatisfactory response rates and inadequate qualitative responses are a common problem. To address these issues, we implemented a single-question, Entrustable Professional Activities (EPA) based assessment tool on our inpatient ward rotations and compared it to our existing ACGME milestone-based assessment tool. […]
Abstract Number: 96
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) are fast becoming the framework to assess medical student preparedness to deliver safe, high quality care. The hospital ward environment leads to highly variable teaching and evaluation of EPAs. Accordingly, we felt that the controlled teaching environment found in simulation (SIM) along with a standardized checklist with trained faculty would […]
Abstract Number: 143
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Trust has long been considered an important element in the doctor-patient relationship, and historically physicians have been considered one of the most trusted professions in the US. However, recent data suggests that patient trust in the healthcare system has eroded. One hypothesized cause of this loss of trust is the breakdown of the doctor-patient […]
Abstract Number: 280
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Racial minorities are underrepresented in cancer-related clinical trials. One commonly recognized contributor to this is medical mistrust. Methods: This study used data from the 2020 National Cancer Institute’s Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), a cross-sectional, nationally representative sample of 3865 participants. We sought to determine the prevalence of medical mistrust and its impact […]