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Abstract Number: 4
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) are standardized forms that allow graduating students to self-identify goals, strengths, and weaknesses prior to starting residency. The Coalition for Physician Accountability has advocated for their use in the undergraduate (UME) to graduate medical education (GME) transition. A pilot of ILPs in pediatrics demonstrated moderate usefulness. However, within internal medicine […]
Oral Presentations
Abstract Number: 4
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs) are standardized forms that allow graduating students to self-identify goals, strengths, and weaknesses prior to starting residency. The Coalition for Physician Accountability has advocated for their use in the undergraduate (UME) to graduate medical education (GME) transition. A pilot of ILPs in pediatrics demonstrated moderate usefulness. However, within internal medicine […]
Abstract Number: 35
SHM Converge 2023
Background: The American opioid epidemic is a public health emergency, with over 100,000 opioid-related overdose deaths occurring in 2021 (1). Harm reduction treatment models, formulated with the goal of reducing the negative consequences of opioid use, have been implemented as an alternative approach in minimizing opioid overdose and mortality (2). With approximately 4-11% of hospitalized […]
Abstract Number: 58
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Hospitalists routinely precept third year medical students on general internal medicine wards. One of the key patient care tasks for students is to interpret and initiate management for common electrolyte abnormalities. Formal training to achieve this is lacking for students transitioning from preclinical to clinical years. We designed and implemented a module on interpreting […]
Abstract Number: 66
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Promoting scholarship and mentorship among trainees and faculty is important for individual career development. Faculty who mentor trainees in improving scholarship performance, help improve their own academic and professional growth. However, many barriers limit faculty engagement in mentoring trainees, including limited time and lack of accessible resources, institutional/leadership support, formal training, and faculty development/structured […]
Abstract Number: 232
SHM Converge 2023
Background: It has been well demonstrated that improving patient health literacy positively impacts patient adherence to their treatment plan as well as patient satisfaction. The time just before hospital discharge is particularly important because the provider can summarize the admission including what the possible etiologies were that prompted admission, in-hospital therapies utilized, and what the […]
Abstract Number: 235
SHM Converge 2023
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 […]
Abstract Number: 278
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Functional health literacy includes the ability to receive information, comprehend its meaning, and put it into action. Patients’ health literacy level has been found to be a stronger correlate of health status than education level and other sociodemographic variables. Individuals with below basic/basic health literacy utilize the healthcare system more often and spend more […]
Abstract Number: 306
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Background: The UNC Meet My Loved One (MMLO) project was implemented during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. As COVID-19 surged, patients and healthcare workers experienced unique factors that diminished recognition of patient personhood and increased healthcare worker (HCW) burnout. Adapted from the University of Alabama’s MMLO initiative, the UNC Palliative Care team […]
Abstract Number: 308
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Managing the complex environment of a general medicine ward requires high performing interdisciplinary teams.(1) In 2016, an Accountable Care Unit (ACU) was implemented on a 35-bed medicine ward at a community based teaching hospital to develop high performing interdisciplinary teams. One of the four features of an ACU is Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounds (SIBR)(2), […]