Residents' Exposure to Educational Experiences in Facilitating Hospital Discharges.

Background: There is an incomplete understanding of the most effective approaches for motivating residents to adopt guideline-recommended practices for hospital discharges.

Objective: We evaluated internal medicine (IM) residents' exposure to educational experiences focused on facilitating hospital discharges and compared those experiences based on correlations with residents' perceived responsibility for safely transitioning patients from the hospital.

Methods: A cross-sectional, multi-center survey of IM residents at 9 US university- and community-based training programs in 2014-2015 measured exposure to 8 transitional care experiences, their perceived impact on care transitions attitudes, and the correlation between experiences and residents' perceptions of postdischarge responsibility.

Internal Medicine Residents' Perceived Responsibility for Patients at Hospital Discharge: A National Survey.

Background: Medical residents are routinely entrusted with transitions of care, yet little is known about the duration or content of their perceived responsibility for patients they discharge from the hospital.

Objective: To examine the duration and content of internal medicine residents' perceived responsibility for patients they discharge from the hospital. The secondary objective was to determine whether specific individual experiences and characteristics correlate with perceived responsibility.

Patients from abroad becoming patients in everyday practice: torture survivors in primary care.

Since 1975, over 3.5 million refugees have resettled in the United States, many of whom have experienced some form of torture, and little data exists on their primary care needs. This is retrospective chart-review of sixty-one torture survivors in Denver, Colorado.