Implementing Rapid Whole-Genome Sequencing in Critical Care: A Qualitative Study of Facilitators and Barriers to New Technology Adoption.

Objective: To characterize the views of members of the multi-disciplinary team regarding the implementation of rapid whole-genome sequencing (rWGS) as a first-tier test for critically ill children in diverse children's hospital settings.

Study Design: Qualitative interviews informed by implementation science theory were conducted with the multidisciplinary patient care teams and hospital leaders at each of the 5 tertiary care children's hospitals involved in a statewide rWGS implementation project.

Results: Our analysis revealed 5 key themes regarding the implementation process across the sites: the need for rWGS champions, educational needs and strategies, negotiating decision-making roles and processes, workflows and workarounds, and perceptions about rWGS.

360-Degree Feedback Model to Enhance Interprofessional Learning.

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Providing meaningful feedback in interprofessional education (IPE) requires knowledge of discipline specific responsibilities and a method for measuring team dynamics while capturing individual performance.

Primary Care Residents Improve Knowledge, Skills, Attitudes, and Practice After a Clinical Curriculum With a Hospice.

Effective approaches to teaching attitudes, knowledge, and skills to resident physicians in primary care that can be implemented in any residency program are needed. We examined the feasibility and impact of a single palliative care residency curriculum, including a clinical rotation with a hospice program, across 5 cohorts of residents in 7 divergent primary care residency programs (both family medicine and internal medicine). The didactic content was drawn from the national Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care Project.

vTrain: a novel curriculum for patient surge training in a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE).

Introduction: During a pandemic influenza, emergency departments will be overwhelmed with a large influx of patients seeking care. Although all hospitals should have a written plan for dealing with this surge of health care utilization, most hospitals struggle with ways to educate the staff and practice for potentially catastrophic events. Hypothesis/Problem To better prepare hospital staff for a patient surge, a novel educational curriculum was developed utilizing an emergency department for a patient surge functional drill.

Facilitating faculty success: outcomes and cost benefit of the UCSD National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine.

Problem And Background: In 1998, the University of California San Diego (UCSD) was selected as one of four National Centers of Leadership in Academic Medicine (NCLAM) to develop a structured mentoring program for junior faculty.

Method: Participants were surveyed at the beginning and end of the seven-month program, and one-four years after. The institution provided financial information.

Improving knowledge in palliative medicine with a required hospice rotation for third-year medical students.

Purpose: The Liaison Committee for Medical Education requires accredited U.S. and Canadian medical schools to teach end-of-life care.

An analysis of standardised patient checklist errors and their effect on student scores.

Background: The frequency and nature of standardised patient (SP) recording errors during clinical performance examinations (CPX) have an effect on case scores and ultimately on pass/fail decisions.

Purpose: To determine the effect of SP recording errors on case scores.

Methods: Standardised patients completed checklists immediately after each encounter.