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PHM15: Incorporating Active Learning Strategies into Your Teaching
July 29, 2015
Presenters: Alison Holmes, MD, MPH; Michele Long, MD; Carrie Rossbach, MD; Jennifer Rosenthal, MD Being a hospitalist naturally lends itself to participating in education.
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PHM15: Evidence-Based Diagnostic Evaluation of Infants Presenting with an Apparent Life Threatening Event
July 29, 2015
Summary: Presenters of the PHM15 session "Evidence Based Diagnostic Evaluation of Infants Presenting with an Apparent Life Threatening Event" discussed four main diagnostic categories for ALTEs: cardiac, infectious, non-accidental trauma/neurologic, and gastrointestinal.
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Society of Hospital Medicine Launches Med Student Scholarship Program
July 28, 2015
The Society of Hospital Medicine has launched a new scholarship program to bring the "best and brightest" medical students into the specialty. The Student Hospitalist Scholar Grant program awards eligible students a $5,000 summer stipend for scholarly work on a project related to patient safety,
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PHM15: Challenging Diagnoses, Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatric Immigrant, Refugee Patient Cases
July 28, 2015
Presenters: Nichole Chandler MD, Suresh Nagappan MD MSPH, Angela Hartsell MD MPH, and Emily Hodnett MD This workshop focused on interactive cases to highlight healthcare issues specific to the population of refugee/immigrant children in the US.
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Small Bowel Block in Elderly Merits Full Hospitalization
July 28, 2015
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The "vast majority" of elderly patients admitted with small bowel obstruction (SBO) are hospitalized for more than two days, and the diagnosis alone should allow appropriate Medicare coverage, according to a new study. In a paper online July 1 in Annals o
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Vitamin D Assay May Give Misleading Results
July 28, 2015
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In certain circumstances one widely used test for vitamin D intoxication, the Diasorin radioimmunoassay, may not be entirely reliable, according to two case studies by U.S. and Irish investigators. "Our study," Dr. Michael A.
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PHM15: How to Make Difficult Conversations Manageable
July 27, 2015
Summary: One of PHM15's first sessions was a workshop led by Dr.
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PHM15: Inter-Professional Approach to Patient Safety Training
July 27, 2015
Summary: In an era where a majority of the pediatric hospital workforce is just starting to recognize fish bone diagrams, five why questions, root cause analysis, IHI, Lean, six sigma and pareto charts, hospitalists can be daunted as they try to serve as the home for quality improvement and patient
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PHM15: Effective Intranasal Sedation
July 27, 2015
Presenters: Kelly Basaldua, MD; Daniel Sedillo, MD, MBA, and Jason Reynolds, MD Summary: In an environment where medicine is becoming ever more specialized and the scope of practice for many is ever narrowing into corridors of expertise, the hospitalist remains a bastion of generalism with an ev
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PHM15: Preparing for Global Health Experiences
July 27, 2015
Presenters: Gitanjli Arora, Phuc Le, and Christiana Russ Summary: Overseas medical missions can be rewarding experiences for both trainees as part of a supervised program and attending physicians.