Background: Teaching complex topics, such as hyponatremia, requires simultaneous processing of multiple interconnected concepts. Traditional teaching methods like small and large group lectures may overwhelm learners, making innovative tools necessary to manage cognitive load. Serious games, designed with a primary purpose beyond entertainment—to teach, train, or assess students in a structured, engaging way designed for [...]

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 [...]

Background: Managing clinical deterioration in hospitalized patients is a major component of patient care. When medical students transition to residency, they are expected to manage patients who acutely decompensate in rapid response scenarios, often without dedicated training or exposure on their clerkship rotations. Simulation center training (SIM) has been utilized to help trainees recognize and [...]

Background: Hospital medicine is a rapidly growing specialty within internal medicine, offering diverse career opportunities in clinical practice, teaching, research, innovation, and quality improvement (QI). As with any other specialty within Internal Medicine, residents interested in Hospital Medicine need specialty guidance, mentorship, and professional development when considering careers in Hospital Medicine. The Hospital Internal Medicine [...]

Background: As generational gaps between leadership and early-career academic hospitalists continue to widen, acknowledging shifting priorities around mentorship is essential for success of new faculty. We noted decreased engagement with mentorship and scholarship among our junior faculty and sought to characterize contributing causes. We hypothesized that our existing dyad mentorship framework, designed by senior hospitalists, [...]

Background: Feedback is critical in medical education, yet its effectiveness is often compromised by suboptimal utilization. Many trainees experience a disconnect between feedback they receive and their self-perceptions, which can inhibit their growth and performance. Common challenges include inconsistencies between evaluative feedback and trainees’ beliefs about their capabilities, concerns regarding the credibility of the feedback [...]

Background: Women represented 55.4% of U.S medical school matriculants in 2023. [1] Parents-in-training report high levels of parental stress. Women more often identify as the primary caregiver, anticipate training extensions, and face barriers to breastfeeding and childcare stress. [2] We aimed to identify opportunities to ease the return to work for birthing parents. Purpose: We [...]

Background: Many hospitalists at academic institutions are eager to grow as effective clinical educators but face barriers that limit their development opportunities. With limited time on teaching wards, hospitalists have fewer chances to engage in “learning by doing” in their roles as educators. Many who enter these positions straight after residency are expected to serve [...]

Background: At many academic institutions, medical students in their last year of training participate in transition-to-residency (TTR) courses. At our institution, our TTR course includes residency-specific tracks including one for students transitioning into Internal Medicine. Purpose: Despite the frequency of cross-cover care, studies note that this skill is not often formally taught, and most incoming [...]

Background: Access to “fresh” admissions, in which an admitting team is the first to evaluate a new patient apart from emergency department (ED) staff, is critical to the experience and skill development of medical trainees, particularly interns. Fewer fresh admissions were assigned to teaching teams at Yale New Haven Hospital between 2019-2021 due to system-level [...]