Background: Engagement in scholarly activity (clinical vignette, conference presentations, publications etc.) is a fundamental requirement for trainees in medical education. We studied the impact of point intervention – clinical vignette workshop (CVW) to write a Clinical Vignettes (CV) for fourth year medical students at author’s institution. Methods: All fourth year medical students enrolled in internal medicine [...]

Background: There is no formal curriculum for medical students, residents or advanced practitioner students on appropriate clinical documentation improvement (CDI). As the primary documenters for medical records, several studies have shown benefit in billing, coding and hospital metrics with trainee education [1-2]. Despite this, there remains a scarcity of education on documentation for residents and [...]

Engaging Residents in QI, the SMART way. Authors: Gabriella Sherman, MD and Luis Dimen, MD Background: Residency programs across the country have implemented various quality improvement (QI) lecture series in an effort to engage residents in QI projects.  Despite the many resources available to residents, they have limited time to utilize the tools to complete [...]

Background: The scope of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) use in hospital medicine continues to expand. Despite the noted benefits in diagnostic accuracy, the use of POCUS in hospital medicine is varied. A prospective study of hospitalists in 2022 showed that diagnostic POCUS use has increased nationally for cardiac, pulmonary, and abdominal applications. The most common barrier [...]

Background: The under-reporting of adverse events has been a significant issue in patient and healthcare staff safety, and prevents improvement of individual and systemic errors in healthcare. As champions for quality and safety in their institutions, it is essential hospitalists who work with housestaff  serve as role models to encourage trainees to report safety issues. [...]