Meeting
Abstract Number: 339
SHM Converge 2024
Background: The Association of American Medical Colleges identifies consideration of social determinants of health (SDoH) and patient-specific factors as key components of entrustable professional activities (Englander 2016). Prior studies of medical students and Internal Medicine (IM) residents demonstrated baseline gaps in integrating SDoH into clinical reasoning (CR) in the outpatient setting (Schwartz 2010, Wilhite 2020), […]
Abstract Number: 344
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Hospital Medicine is a nuanced field that requires expertise in patient care and non-clinical health system topics. While several residency programs have now developed dedicated hospital medicine electives, there still exists a gap in education for medical students as they are only exposed to inpatient care. Additionally, many fourth-year medical students (M4s) interested in […]
Abstract Number: 389
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: Preventable medical errors are currently the third leading cause of death in the United States following heart disease and cancer (1). Because of this, patient safety has become an important concern for healthcare systems due to the high costs associated with medical errors as well as the impact on reputation and mortality and morbidity […]
Abstract Number: N23
SHM Converge 2022
Background: Career exploration and professional identity formation (PIF) are critical in undergraduate medical education (UME). With its focus on management of acutely ill, hospitalized patients, Hospital Medicine (HM) is an opportune environment for pre-clinical students to gain valuable, diverse clinical experiences. While widely utilized in UME, shadowing on HM direct-care services (HM-DCS) (i.e., those without […]