A substance use disorder training curriculum for internal medicine residents using resident-empaneled patients.

Background: Internal Medicine (IM) residents frequently encounter, but feel unprepared to diagnose and treat, patients with substance use disorders (SUD). This is compounded by negative regard for patients with SUD. Optimal education strategies are needed to empower IM residents to care for patients with SUD.

Telehealth Attitudes, Training, and Preparedness Among First-Year Internal Medicine Residents in the COVID-19 Era.

Telehealth, especially the use of real-time video and phone visits in ambulatory care, is increasingly important in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current state of internal medicine (IM) interns' telehealth training at the start of residency is unknown. To characterize the attitudes, training, and preparedness of IM interns regarding the use of telehealth video and phone visits in ambulatory care.

Bridging the Gap: Interdepartmental Quality Improvement and Patient Safety Curriculum Created by Hospital Leaders, Faculty, and Trainees.

Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Clinical Learning Environment Review recommends that quality improvement/patient safety (QI/PS) experts, program faculty, and trainees collectively develop QI/PS education.

Objective: Faculty, hospital leaders, and resident and fellow champions at the University of Chicago designed an interdepartmental curriculum to train postgraduate year 1 (PGY-1) residents on core QI/PS principles, measuring outcomes of knowledge, attitudes, and event reporting.

Methods: The curriculum consisted of 3 sessions: PS, quality assessment, and QI.

Evaluation and Treatment of Hirsutism in Premenopausal Women.

Guideline Title: Evaluation and Treatment of Hirsutism in Premenopausal Women

Developer: Endocrine Society, Androgen Excess and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Society, European Society of Endocrinology

Release Date: March 2018

Prior Version: February 5, 2008

Funding Source: Endocrine Society

Target Population: Premenopausal women with excess hair growth

Major Recommendations: DIAGNOSIS: Obtain a random serum total testosterone measurement to assess for androgen excess in all women with an abnormal hirsutism score (weak recommendation, low-quality evidence). Obtain an early-morning 17-hydroxyprogesterone measurement in all women with elevated testosterone and in women with hirsutism who are at high risk of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (weak recommendation; low-quality evidence). Do not measure androgen levels in women with normal menses and a normal hirsutism score (weak recommendation; low-quality evidence).

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.

Using a resident discharge clinic for resident education and patient care: a feasibility study.

Background: Many patients in internal medicine resident continuity clinics experience difficulty accessing care, making posthospitalization ambulatory follow-up challenging. Experiential learning in care transitions is also lacking for residents.

Objective: We sought to assess the feasibility and impact of a weekly Resident Discharge Clinic (RDC) in increasing access to early posthospitalization follow-up and providing learning opportunities for residents.

A resident-led quality improvement initiative to improve obesity screening.

Instruction on quality improvement (QI) methods is required as part of residency education; however, there is limited evidence regarding whether internal medicine residents can improve patient care using these methods. Because obesity screening is not done routinely in clinical practice, residents aimed to improve screening using QI techniques. Residents streamlined body mass index (BMI) documentation, created educational materials about obesity, and launched an obesity screening QI initiative in a residency clinic.