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Improving Communications Between ED and Hospitalist Physicians, Viewpoints from Both Perspectives
- Amanda Green, MD, FACP, FHM
July 5, 2023
Dr. Michael and Dr. Andrew Pfeffer are brothers who each presented a side of the emergency department(ED)/hospitalist points of conflict. They set the scope of the talk with data from 2020 that there...
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Strategies for Dysfunctional Teams and Groups
- Beth Makowski, DO, FACOI, FHM
July 5, 2023
Drs. Russo and Boer began by outlining the differences between high-performing and dysfunctional teams. High-performing teams are not afraid of face-to-face communication, authentically give and...
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Standardizing the Recruitment Process for Hospitalist Programs
July 5, 2023
This workshop discussed ideas to standardize the recruitment process, ask more informative interview questions, and minimize unconscious bias to create a diverse hospitalist group. The audience was...
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Increased Familiarity Between Residents and Nurses Improves Team Performance and Communication
- Bryan Huang, MD, CHCQM-PHYADV, FHM
May 1, 2023
Dr. Huang Clinical question: Does an increased familiarity between medical residents and nurses improve team performance and communication? Background: Prior studies suggest that familiarity...
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Important Lessons from Hospitalists Who Love Their Jobs
May 1, 2023
Job stress, moral injury, burnout, and the great resignation—these are very real concerns for the field of hospital medicine, exacerbated by but not limited to the unprecedented challenges of the...
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Lessons in Redeployment from Adult Hospitalists
- Sydney Katz, MD, Elijah Douglass, MD, and Alice J. Tang, MD, MHPE
May 1, 2023
Diverse mid-adult nurses, mature adult hospital administrators, and senior adult doctors are standing around a table in a hospital board room. They are reviewing spreadsheets and charts containing...
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For Dr. Hadley, Hospital Medicine is the Ultimate Team Sport
April 3, 2023
Q & A with Andrea Hadley, MD, FAAP, Corewell Health/Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, Grand Rapids, Mich. As a med-peds hospitalist, Dr. Hadley turns to SHM for networking an education, and she...
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Curriculum Transition from Lecture- to Team-based Learning Associated with Improvement in (IM-ITE) Scores
April 3, 2023
Dr. Mehta Clinical question: Does team-based learning in residency curricula have an impact on knowledge acquisition and standardized testing performance as compared to traditional lecture-based...
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Hospitalist Volunteers Give Back to Their Communities
April 3, 2023
For National Volunteer Month, April 2023, The Hospitalist celebrates four hospitalists who’ve found innovative ways to contribute their professional expertise to their communities. Bringing their...
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Alternative Hospitalist “Uniform” When Hospitalists Were New (2003)
- Len Scarpinato, DO, MS, FACP, FAAFP, SFHM
February 22, 2023
I read with interest the contrasting articles “Have We Gotten too Casual “ and “Heels, White Coats, Formal Wear, and Scrubs” all about hospitalists’ attire in the January 2023 issue. It...