Background: Coaching and mentorship programs for new hospitalists can help support early career development. However, new faculty may need additional real-time support as they attend on service for the first time. This may be particularly useful on the teaching service given the unique challenges new faculty may face, such as developing teaching points, providing feedback [...]

Background: Studies have shown that overutilization of labs is common and can cause adverse health outcomes.  No study to date has compared whether variation in lab ordering tendencies exists between different services within the same hospital.       Methods: This observational study combined a survey of internal medicine residents and hospitalists and a retrospective [...]

Background: For the clinician-educator, balancing patient care duties with educational responsibilities can be challenging.1 New methods are needed to augment the current toolkit of time-efficient teaching methods, which include strategies like the “one-minute preceptor” or bedside rounds.2 One educational strategy of interest is task-based learning (TBL), which structures learning around a clinical task.3,4 Rather than [...]