The Safe Discharge Checklist: A Standardized Discharge Planning Curriculum for Medicine Trainees.

Objectives: Hospital discharge is a challenging time for residents, requiring the completion of many tasks to ensure safe transitions for patients. Despite recognition of the importance of hospital discharge planning, formal curricula are lacking. We sought to improve medicine residents' comfort and skills with discharge planning and enhance the quality of care by introducing a standardized approach to discharge on the medicine wards.

Avoiding Death by Meeting: An Interactive Workshop for Academic Faculty Highlighting Strategies to Facilitate Effective Team Meetings.

Introduction: Effective meetings are a key marker of team function and are critical for task management. While important, the skill set for running an effective meeting is poorly understood.

Methods: We developed an interactive curriculum that provided physician leaders in academic medicine with generalizable knowledge and skills to effectively plan and lead various types of team meetings, leverage engagement, and troubleshoot challenging personalities.

How Successful Are Residents and Fellows at Quality Improvement?

Background: Nationally, there is an expectation that residents and fellows participate in quality improvement (QI), preferably interprofessionally. Hospitals and educators invest time and resources in projects, but little is known about success rates or what fosters success.

Purpose: To understand what proportion of trainee QI projects were successful and whether there were predictors of success.

Simple Frameworks for Daily Work: Innovative Strategies to Coach Residents Struggling With Time Management, Organization, and Efficiency.

Background: Organization and efficiency are central to success on busy inpatient services and may be relevant to demonstrating certain milestones. Most residents adopt these skills by observing supervisors and peers. For some, this method of emulation and adaptation does not occur, with the potential for a negative effect on patient care and team morale.