Search results for "Education"
POCUS training track effective for internal medicine residents without local expertise
At one university-based internal medicine residency program, a three-year point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) training track that used both local and external resources increased residents' use of and comfort with POCUS applications.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2022/06/29/pocus-training-track-effective-for-internal-medicine-residents-without-local-expertise.htm
29 Jun 2022
Diagnostic error found in care of 23% of patients who died or were transferred to ICU
The most common causes of diagnostic errors were assessment and testing issues, according to an analysis of patients who were transferred to an ICU, died, or both while hospitalized with general medical conditions at any of 29 academic centers in 2019.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/17/diagnostic-error-found-in-care-of-23percent-of-patients-who-died-or-were-transferred-to-icu.htm
17 Jan 2024
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
Negotiation skills needed more than ever
Financial dealings with hospitals have gotten tougher, but classic strategies can help hospitalists make it through.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/20/free/negotiation-skills-needed-more-than-ever.htm
20 Sep 2023
Hospitalists offer lessons from past diagnostic successes, errors
Interviews with 24 experienced hospitalists revealed five themes from their thoughts on improving diagnostics.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/07/hospitalists-offer-lessons-from-past-diagnostic-successes-errors.htm
7 Feb 2024
Friction
The forces of physics can explain clinical and other functions of the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/08/23/free/friction.htm
23 Aug 2023
Community paramedics treating heart failure
Cardiologists and paramedics collaborated to keep some patients out of the hospital.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/09/20/community-paramedics-treating-heart-failure.htm
20 Sep 2023
Discharge ed, doctor harassment, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2021/05/in-the-news.htm
15 May 2021
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
April 2011
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2011/04/