Search results for "Education"
Learning to lead
Hospitalists, with their wide range of experience and knowledge of a hospital's different departments and systems, can be natural choices for leadership positions. And many are now pursuing advanced management training to help them get the background they need to seek these positions—or simply to be more effective in the positions they already have.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/cover-story.htm
15 Jan 2008
Universal coverage, education are priorities for next AMA president
Universal coverage, education are priorities for next AMA president.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/ama.htm
15 Jan 2008
Picture boards help those who can't speak for themselves
More hospitals are using pictures to communicate with non-English speakers, the deaf and other nonverbal patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/pictures.htm
15 Jan 2008
A tale of two meetings
A tale of two meetings.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/01/meetings.htm
15 Jan 2008
E-learning for everyone
Virtual patients expose students and physicians to a wide range of clinical scenarios.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/elearning.htm
15 Feb 2008
It's not an admission, it's an experience
When former hospitalist M. Bridget Duffy, MD, became chief experience officer at the Cleveland Clinic last year, she explored every aspect of the hospital’s operation and set out to improve it. The changes instituted by her office of patient experience are making the Cleveland Clinic look and feel more like part of a very customer-service-oriented industry. That's no coincidence, say experts.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/02/cover.htm
15 Feb 2008
A different kind of competency
Juan Lopez, a Hispanic man with limited English proficiency, is admitted to your hospital with severe abdominal pain. You think he needs surgery, but he insists that the pain is the result of a hex, and requests treatment from a witch doctor. How do you respond?.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/cover.htm
15 Mar 2008
Paying by numbers
CMS's new MS-DRG codes require more precise diagnostic reporting.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/numbers.htm
15 Mar 2008
Listening in lieu of lecturing
Docs try motivational interviewing to change health behaviors.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/listening.htm
15 Mar 2008
A leader of philanthropy and a woman in medicine
Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey, MACP: A leader of philanthropy and a woman in medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2008/03/profile.htm
15 Mar 2008