Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing society to re-evaluate how it educates learners of all levels, from medical students faculty. Travel restrictions and limits on large public gatherings have necessitated the cancelling numerous regional national conferences as well local grand rounds at many academic centers. Podcasting provides a potential solution for providing CME in safe, socially distant way an alternative these more traditional sources health care professionals. Using popular...

Abstract Problem Traditional residency application review methods are fraught with bias. Literature on how to create and use rubrics aid in holistic is lacking. The authors describe their program’s process of designing implementing a mission-based rubric review. Approach After updating the University Pittsburgh Medical Center internal medicine-pediatrics mission statement April 2020, used experiences, attributes, metrics domains based Electronic Residency Application Service application....

Introduction: People are increasingly consuming information on-demand. Podcasting is a growing medium for education in an on-demand world. There paucity of data on podcasting as means continuing medical (CME) attending physicians. Methods: The authors performed exploratory survey convenience sample listeners to Pediatric Hospital Medicine podcast learn about their attitudes regarding podcasting. A 17-question consisting demographic data, attitudinal questions, and qualitative questions was...

As medical educators, we have a responsibility to ensure our trainees are exposed curricula dedicated Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), as illustrated by the Association of American Medical Colleges' recently released DEI Competencies Across Curriculum. We designed implemented curriculum, Social Justice Rounds (SJR), that incorporates teaching on these topics directly into inpatient clinical work. SJR brief team-based discussions facilitated Pediatric Hospital Medicine faculty focus...

This study utilized focus groups of residents, who report adverse events at differing rates depending on their hospital site, to better understand barriers residents’ reporting and identify modifiable aspects an institution’s culture that could encourage resident event reporting. Focus included residents rotated 3 hospitals represented 4 training programs. were audio recorded analyzed using qualitative methods. A total 64 participated in 8 groups. Reporting behavior varied by culture....

Podcasting, like many new technologies, provides the opportunity to make learning more convenient and efficient. Since gaining popularity as a medium in early 2000s, there is growing number of podcasts medical field that target lay public, patients, health care professionals.1 In 2018, Edison Report stated 44% Americans had listened podcast their lifetime, 26% past month.2 These percentages have consistently risen since 2008.2 Regular listeners tend an advanced degree, full-time employment,...

Patient safety is recognized as an important part of pediatric resident education. There a lack published curricula targeting residents. A local needs assessment showed that while residents felt was their current and future jobs, they did not feel prepared to apply principles careers or participate in root cause analysis (RCA).This curriculum delivered senior-level multiple-board during five monthly, hour-long, multidisciplinary sessions. Sessions covered systems-based thinking, terminology,...

Primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) is a rare clinical entity in pediatric patients relative to adults. Consequently, the diagnosis often delayed patients, and children adolescents are more likely present with symptoms of hypercalcemia end-organ damage. Here, we case an adolescent patient chest pain who was found have lytic bone lesion secondary pHPT.

Little is known about what motivates residents to report adverse events. The goals of the qualitative study were to: (1) better understand facilitators residents' event reporting and (2) identify effective interventions that encourage report.The authors conducted focus groups upper-level from 4 training programs (2 internal medicine, a pediatric, combined medicine-pediatric) who rotated at 3 institutions within large healthcare system in 2016. Quantitative data on experience gathered. Focus...

Quality improvement (QI) is a core competency for Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) and required maintenance of certification, but many hospitalists lack QI training. This project set out to increase PHM faculty's knowledge comfort participating in projects, while concurrently applying the skills learned hospital.We designed 4-session curriculum utilizing principles adult learning. Faculty immediately applied concepts percentage patients who were seen by an attending billed on same day as...

Purpose: Patient safety has been identified by the ACGME, ABP, and experts as an important topic for resident medical education. Despite this, there are few published curricula targeting pediatric residents. We created innovative patient curriculum senior-level multi-board aim to improve residents’ knowledge of principles, their comfort in applying these principles future practice, satisfaction with education, rates event reporting. Methods: The was delivered five one-hour long, monthly...

Case Report: An 18 year old female with past medical history of mild intermittent asthma and family unspecified thyroid carcinoma presented to the emergency department a two day pleuritic chest pain shortness breath. Vital signs were within normal limits, cardiovascular respiratory exams unremarkable. Musculoskeletal exam was notable for tenderness palpation right parasternal region. Initial workup included ECG x-ray focal lytic lesion posterolateral second rib small extrapleural based …

Purpose: Event reporting is an important tool by which a health care system can recognize what types of errors are occurring and identify ways to improve patient safety. However, national data show that minority event reports made physicians. Patient safety experts have targeted low physician as area for improvement on both local levels. At academic centers, residents the front lines care, yet little known about their behaviors attitudes. Studies attending physicians …

Title: A discharge education initiative to improve asthma care through innovative teaching material and one-on-one teach-back. Introduction: Discharge from the hospital is a vital point in when practice team can change trajectory of chronic disease. Multiple studies have looked at implementation action plans (AAP) alter markers control with varied but often unimpressive results. The aim our project was create an tool combined teach-back evaluate for improvement control. Method: completed …