A Curriculum to Enhance Resilience in Internal Medicine Interns.

Background: Burnout is a serious concern in graduate medical education. While enhancing resilience in trainees is considered beneficial, there are few studies showing successful interventions.

Objective: We developed and implemented a curriculum to teach resilience skills to internal medicine (IM) residents.

Resident Use of Text Messaging for Patient Care: Ease of Use or Breach of Privacy?

Background: Short message service (SMS) text messaging is an efficient form of communication and pervasive in health care, but may not securely protect patient information. It is unclear if resident providers are aware of the security concerns of SMS text messaging when communicating about patient care.

Objective: We sought to compare residents' preferences for SMS text messaging compared with other forms of in-hospital communication when considering security versus ease of use.

Preparing for the primary care clinic: an ambulatory boot camp for internal medicine interns.

Introduction: Internal medicine (IM) interns start continuity clinic with variable ambulatory training. Multiple other specialties have utilized a boot camp style curriculum to improve surgical and procedural skills, but boot camps have not been used to improve interns' ambulatory knowledge and confidence. The authors implemented and assessed the impact of an intern ambulatory boot camp pilot on primary care knowledge, confidence, and curricular satisfaction.