Search results for "Education"
Audience archetypes
Two frequent conference speakers offer their taxonomy of attendees.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/26/free/audience-archetypes.htm
26 Jul 2023
Procedure committee set standards for measuring residents' competence
A recent study described how a procedure competency committee of hospitalists reviewed internal medicine residents' procedure portfolios and assessed their ability to perform various procedures with assistance, with direct supervision, or with indirect supervision.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/26/procedure-committee-set-standards-for-measuring-residents-competence.htm
26 Jul 2023
Remote work for hospitalists
Telehospitalist systems provide benefits for both small hospitals and physicians.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/19/remote-work-for-hospitalists.htm
19 Jul 2023
Chatbot performance appears similar to residents', medical students' on tests, studies find
Recent studies asked ChatGPT to generate a history of present illness based on an interview script and to take a clinical reasoning exam given to first- and second-year medical students.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/19/chatbot-performance-appears-similar-to-residents-medical-students-on-tests-studies-find.htm
19 Jul 2023
Co-occurrence of social risk factors linked to hospital use, outcomes in heart failure
A study in Minnesota found that less formal education, more social isolation, and a higher area deprivation index were the factors most strongly associated with hospitalization and that heart failure patients with multiple risk factors were at the highest risk.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/07/19/co-occurrence-of-social-risk-factors-linked-to-hospital-use-outcomes-in-heart-failure.htm
19 Jul 2023
Intervening on interruptions
Hospitalists should take steps to mitigate the effects of interruptions on their work, researchers say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/28/free/intervening-on-interruptions.htm
28 Jun 2023
Thinking about how you treat
The new field of management reasoning holds potential to improve medical education and practice, researchers say.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/thinking-about-how-you-treat.htm
21 Jun 2023
Hospital medicine, Brazilian style
Hospitalists describe how the growth of their field has made an impact on one country's health care system.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/free/hospital-medicine-brazilian-style.htm
21 Jun 2023
Video laryngoscope increased success rate of intubation, ED and ICU study finds
A trial was stopped early for efficacy after an interim analysis found that 85.1% of video-laryngoscope intubations were successful on the first attempt compared to 70.8% of those performed with a direct laryngoscope.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/21/video-laryngoscope-increased-success-rate-of-intubation-ed-and-icu-study-finds.htm
21 Jun 2023
Stigmatizing language about OUD common in hospital records, associated with less follow-up
The most common term was “abuse,” which appeared in two-thirds of hospital discharge summaries for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) who were admitted for infectious complications of injection opioid use.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/06/14/stigmatizing-language-about-oud-common-in-hospital-records-associated-with-less-follow-up.htm
14 Jun 2023