Impact of a Resident-Driven Research Club on Scholarly Activity in an Academic Internal Medicine Residency Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Objectives: Traditional journal clubs have been shown to be insufficient in improving residents' scholarly productivity, often due to the inability to sustain residents' interest and participation. Additionally, the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic restrictions caused a decline in academic scholarly productivity across residency programs. We evaluated the impact of a resident-led research club called 'journal café' on residents' scholarly productivity by comparing scholarly output between the journal café members and non-members during the COVID-19 pandemic.

An Educational Intervention to Enhance Palliative Care Training at HBCUs.

Context: Primary palliative care training is important for clinicians at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) given the decreased access to specialty palliative care among Black patients and patients' preferences for race concordant care.

Objectives: To describe the impact of a palliative care educational intervention at two HBCUs.

Methods: We administered a palliative care educational intervention in family and internal medicine residency programs at Morehouse School of Medicine and Howard University College of Medicine.

Saved by the PEEP: Resolution of Complete Unilateral Lung Collapse Secondary to Mucus Plugging With Ventilator Technique.

Bronchoscopy can be used to resolve respiratory failure caused by tenacious mucus plugs. However, emergent bronchoscopy to resolve mucus plugging is not always available in small rural hospitals around the country. We present a case in which increasing the positive end-expiratory pressure settings on the ventilator resulted in immediate improvement in patient oxygenation and imaging findings during a respiratory emergency caused by mucus plugging.

Palliative Care Attitudes and Experiences among Resident Physicians at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Context: Seriously ill Black patients receive lower quality palliative care than White patients. Equitable access requires palliative care skills training for all physicians. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) play a key role in educating Black physicians and have less access to palliative care resources.

Learning Styles of Internal Medicine Residents and Association With the In-Training Examination Performance.

Introduction: Assessment of how medical residents learn and the impact on standardized test performance is important for effective training. Kolb's learning study inventory categorizes learning into accommodating, assimilating, converging and diverging based on the four stages of learning: active experimentation, abstract conceptualization, concrete experience and reflective observation. The American College of Physicians (ACP) Internal Medicine In-Training Examination (IM-ITE) has been shown to positively correlate with successful performance on clinical assessments and board certification.

Candida dubliniensis abscess: A clinical case and a review of the literature.

infections are rare in the absence of prolonged immunocompromised status or intravenous drug abuse. We present a case of a soft tissue abscess in a patient with uncontrolled diabetes as his only immunocompromising risk factor, treated with surgical drainage and medical management.

Evaluation of telemetry utilization, policy, and outcomes in an inner-city academic medical center.

Objective: To evaluate the appropriateness and intermediate outcomes of telemetry admissions.

Methods: We abstracted demographic and clinical data from records of all new telemetry admissions during a 2-month period. To determine appropriateness, 2 authors classified patients using the American College of Cardiology (ACC) guidelines and our telemetry policy.

The impact of health literacy on self-monitoring of blood glucose in patients with diabetes receiving care in an inner-city hospital.

Background: Self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is considered to be 1 of the cornerstones of diabetes self-management. It is unclear whether inadequate health literacy affects SMBG.

Objective: The objective of this study was to examine the relationship between health literacy and SMBG.

Is telemetry overused? Is it as helpful as thought?

Cardiac telemetry is widely used in hospitals, but it is expensive and labor-intensive. Therefore, it should be used only in those most likely to benefit. The authors review the available evidence and offer their recommendations.

The preferred learning style among residents and faculty members of an internal medicine residency program.

Objective: To determine the preferred learning style, as defined by David Kolb, and predictors of the different learning styles among residents and faculty members at an internal medicine residency program.

Design/setting: A cross sectional study of internal medicine residents and faculty members at Morehouse School of Medicine was performed using the Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) version 3.1.