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Abstract Number: 57
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Internal medicine training programs have been profoundly impacted by changes in resident duty hours, workloads, and supervisory requirements. Consequentially, it has become increasingly important to re-evaluate and re-formulate traditional methods of teaching to maximize the delivery of clinical education, efficiently identifying and taking advantage of learning opportunities where they may exist. Overnight care […]
Abstract Number: 65
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Background: The landmark adoption of the 80 hour work week by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), followed by shift-length restrictions has forced both hospitals and residency programs to restructure who provides acute medical care and in what fashion. Academic Medical Centers have increasingly relied on hospitalists as traditional teaching attendings, in the […]
Abstract Number: 122
SHM Converge 2021
Background: Although in-person hospitalist presence, increasingly staffed by dedicated nocturnists, has become the norm overnight in the hospital (1-2), the scope of nocturnist practice and the typical workload has not been defined. Methods: In November 2019 a survey was created by a panel of nocturnists made up of members of the SHM Night Medicine Special […]
Abstract Number: 227
SHM Converge 2021
Background: A designated ‘nocturnist’ position is a relatively new but rapidly growing, valuable addition to academic centers. However, institutions find it difficult to attract and retain nocturnists. Among the solutions proposed, one that benefits both the nocturnist and the institution is scholarly activity. (1) This is particularly important in the academic setting where scholarly work […]
Abstract Number: 294
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Cross-covering patients overnight is part of standard Hospitalist practice, however there is little understanding of the workload contribution. Much of the current literature for hospitalist productivity focuses on wRVU, day census, or number of admits per shift. These metrics are not applicable to cross cover since it is largely non-billable work. A cross sectional, […]
Abstract Number: 307
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Night coverage for hospital medicine teams can be the most expensive and busy of all shifts. According to 2020 State of Hospital Medicine Report, only 5.7% of teaching centers use a combination of onsite and off-site night-time coverage. In July 2022, our academic hospital medicine team was asked to create an additional inpatient service […]