Search results for "Academic Medicine"
Preventing physician suicide
New efforts seek to reduce stigma among clinicians about mental illness and treatment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/03/preventing-physician-suicide.htm
15 Mar 2018
New IM residency gains foothold in Nepal
Patan Hospital, a tertiary-level referral center that treats nearly 320,000 outpatients and 20,000 inpatients each year, had no internal medicine residency program until last year.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/04/new-im-residency-gains-foothold-in-nepal.htm
15 Apr 2018
Medicine's #MeToo movement
The recent focus on sexual harassment and assault has led some physicians to share troubling stories.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/05/medicines-metoo-movement.htm
15 May 2018
Increased attending supervision on rounds didn't significantly reduce medical errors
Interns spoke significantly less and fewer of them reported feeling efficient and autonomous when an attending physician joined rounds for established patients, according to a study at one large academic center.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/06/13/4.htm
13 Jun 2018
The new, improved M&M
Morbidity and mortality conferences are starting to be seen more as a potential opportunity to address patient safety issues and reduce preventable errors than as education- and blame-oriented.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/07/the-new-improved-m-and-m.htm
15 Jul 2018
Baking hospitalist training into residency
Although half of large internal medicine residency programs offer hospitalist-focused rotations, there are no standards for their structure.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/08/baking-hospitalist-training-into-residency.htm
15 Aug 2018
Higher electronic order volume may be associated with increased patient complexity
The analysis also found that 91.2% of patients had a discharge summary completed within 24 hours, but that patients were less likely to receive a timely summary if the treating team had a higher volume of orders the day before discharge.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/09/12/4.htm
12 Sep 2018
Watching residents
Academic hospitalists deal with the challenge of balancing supervision and autonomy.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2018/12/watching-residents.htm
15 Dec 2018
IMGs face uncertainty amid politics, rhetoric
Residency leaders report delays, worries due to immigration policies.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2019/01/imgs-face-uncertainty-amid-politics-rhetoric.htm
15 Jan 2019
Do you know how big you are?
Wednesday's precourse “Battling Burnout Together: You Are Not Alone” included an explanation of psychological size, which includes both innate attributes (e.g., stature, age, race, ethnicity) and acquired attributes (name, title, reputation).
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/04/17/1.htm
17 Apr 2019