Search results for "Medical education"
Please, no more ‘pimping’ in med ed
For decades, medical trainees who've been grilled in a traditional manner have felt the burn of shame and humiliation. A hospitalist and educator calls for change.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/08/17/free/please-no-more-pimping-in-med-ed.htm
17 Aug 2022
How to hire millennials
A hospital's culture was a bigger factor in taking or keeping a job than pay or potential for advancement, according to a recent study of hospitalists born after 1982.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/07/20/how-to-hire-millennials.htm
20 Jul 2022
Racism in the record?
Two authors discuss their recent study finding that Black patients were twice as likely as White patients to be described with negative words in their history and physical notes, particularly in inpatient records.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/02/16/free/racism-in-the-record.htm
16 Feb 2022
Internship's depression-inducing effects improved from 2007 to 2019
Medical interns reported increases in sleep hours, quality of faculty feedback, and use of mental health services, as well as a decrease in work hours, all of which might be mitigating internship's adverse effects on mental health.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/11/17/1.htm
17 Nov 2021
Few internal medicine residency programs provide clinical opioid-related training
A 2019 survey of members of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine found that while 82% of programs required some training in safe opioid prescribing and opioid use disorder treatment, few programs required clinical experiences.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/11/10/4.htm
10 Nov 2021
Learning to accept uncertainty in medicine
Physicians with low tolerance of uncertainty were more likely to burn out, a study found.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/09/qa-learning-to-accept-uncertainty.htm
15 Sep 2021
Trainees appear to evaluate general internal medicine faculty performance differently by gender
In the inpatient setting, male faculty were rated more favorably for overall teaching and across all competencies, while the only observed gender difference in the outpatient setting favored female faculty in patient care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/25/3.htm
25 Aug 2021
POCUS increased safety of paracentesis in patients with ascites, trainee study finds
Use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) before paracentesis significantly changed the needle insertion location in two-thirds of studied cases, and six procedures were cancelled based on POCUS findings.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/08/11/3.htm
11 Aug 2021
12 tips for new academic hospitalists
Bradley Sharpe, MD, shared some of the actions that set him up for success.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/12-tips-for-new-hospitalists.htm
15 Jul 2021
Use HCC coding to engage hospitalists in value-based care
Hierarchical condition category (HCC) coding isn't just for outpatients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/07/perspectives-use-hcc-coding-to-engage.htm
15 Jul 2021