Enhancing point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) utilization in primary care: A thyroid POCUS training course for internal medicine residents.

Background: POCUS is valuable in primary care, yet outpatient-specific point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum integration into internal medicine (IM) residency is limited. We addressed this gap by developing a thyroid POCUS workshop for IM residents.

Aim: Develop and implement an educational curriculum to integrate thyroid POCUS into an IM residency program and evaluate the impact on resident knowledge, perceived skills, and attitudes.

Visual thinking strategies for interprofessional education and promoting collaborative competencies.

Background: Interprofessional education (IPE) curricula require approaches that address the needs of learners from multiple professions and levels of clinical experience. Frameworks based in the arts and humanities, which can improve learners' skills in collaborative competencies such as communication and team building, remain limited in IPE. We describe the development, implementation and evaluation of a visual arts-based IPE session for over 400 interprofessional learners.

A Case for Case Reports: How to Write One and Promote Mentorship, Scholarship and Faculty Development.

Introduction Case reports form the base layer of the evidence pyramid, describing new or emerging diseases, side effects to treatments, common presentations of rare diseases, or rare presentations of common diseases. An important scholarly pursuit, writing case reports can be hindered by lack of time, training, and mentorship. Here, we describe a workshop incorporating case writing skills with mentorship opportunities to engage faculty and learners.

Interprofessional Precepting: A Nursing-Medicine Partnership.

Interprofessional precepting can advance team-based collaboration. We evaluated the impact of nurse-led precepting of medical students on perceptions of nurse-physician relationships. Forty-six frontline nurses precepted 73 third year medical students in New York for a three-part clinical and classroom experience.

Food waste (mis)takes: The role of (mis)perception and (mis)estimation.

Food waste (mis)takes are implicated as drivers of global issues including climate change, food security, environmental sustainability, and international trade. In this article, we review recent research in this area and generate a novel conceptual organization through which we can understand the theoretical underpinnings of food waste. Our framework identifies consumer (mis)perception of food safety and (mis)estimation of food for consumption as the dominant mechanisms underlying food waste and specifies a set of psychological antecedents that activate these two theoretical drivers.

Reversible dementia in the setting of multiple medical comorbidities due to B12 deficiency.

Vitamin B12 deficiency is a cause of reversible dementia that must be ruled out in the evaluation of neurocognitive decline. We present a case of neurocognitive decline secondary to B12 deficiency where the workup was obscured by multiple competing diagnoses and treatment with empiric B12 supplementation reversed symptoms. Although the pretest probability was low, the morbidity from undiagnosed B12 deficiency is high, warranting a trial of B12 supplementation that resolved the patient's symptoms.

Expanding Knowledge and Changing Attitudes About Poverty: An Interactive, Interprofessional Approach.

Background: Poverty negatively affects the lives and health of the poor. However, health professionals often have limited personal experience and receive little formal education on surviving under conditions of poverty in the United States, which may contribute to suboptimal patient care and outcomes.

Purpose: We conducted a 3-h, interactive, experiential poverty simulation workshop with an interprofessional group of pre-professional health students to increase their comprehension about the realities of poverty.

Impact of the New York State Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (IStop) on chronic pain management by primary care providers.

Objective: To explore the impact of the New York State Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (IStop) on the self-reported management of patients with chronic pain by primary care providers.

Design: Mixed-methods study with survey collection and semistructured interviews.

Setting: Multiple academic hospitals in New York.

The Financial Cost of Interprofessional Ambulatory Training: What's the Bottom Line?

Background: Team-based care is recommended as a building block of high-performing primary care but has not been widely adapted in training sites. Cost may be one barrier to a team-based approach.

Objective: We quantified incremental annual faculty and staff costs as well as potential cost savings associated with an interprofessional (IP) ambulatory training program compared to a traditional residency clinic at the same site.

The serving temperature effect: Food temperature, expected satiety, and complementary food purchases.

We show that the temperature at which foods and beverages are served impacts consumers' complementary purchases, defined as additional foods and beverages purchased for a consumption episode. Across a series of studies, including field studies and controlled laboratory experiments, we show that consumers choose more complementary food items when they consume or intend to consume a food or beverage served cold rather than hot. This occurs because cold consumables are expected to be less satiating compared to hot consumables.

Access and Continuity: A Multidisciplinary Education Workshop to Teach Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) Principles.

Introduction: As more practices move to patient-centered medical home (PCMH) models, future health care professionals must train to work in collaborative settings. We implemented a 3-hour workshop for multidisciplinary trainees on the PCMH principles of access and continuity based on the EFECT framework (eliciting a patient-centered narrative, facilitating an interprofessional team discussion, evaluating the clinical evidence, creating a shared care plan, and tracking outcomes).

Methods: Participants included internal medicine residents and medical, physician assistant (PA), and clinical psychology students.

Contract Negotiation Skills: A Workshop for Women in Medicine.

Introduction: Contract negotiation is a high-stakes interaction, yet most physicians are never taught negotiation skills. Studies suggest that women, as compared with men, display a lower propensity to initiate negotiations and negotiate less competitively, highlighting a need for training to help level the playing field for female physicians.

Methods: We devised a learner-centered workshop for female physicians that included a mini-didactic on negotiation principles, a question-and-answer time with a lawyer, an interactive role-play on contract negotiation style, and guided reflection.

A novel longitudinal interprofessional ambulatory training practice: the improving patient access care and cost through training (IMPACcT) clinic.

Few graduating health professionals choose primary care. Trainees satisfied with continuity ambulatory experiences are more likely to pursue primary care. The authors developed a longitudinal interprofessional ambulatory training program to improve team-based care and encourage primary care careers.

An interprofessional experience in diabetes management for pharmacy and medical students.

Background And Purpose: The 2016 Standards of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education state that curricula must include opportunities for interprofessional education (IPE). This report describes a collaborative effort between a pharmacy program and a school of medicine to develop, implement, and evaluate an interprofessional workshop focused on collaborative disease management.

Educational Activity And Setting: A medical school course in diabetes management was identified as optimal for an IPE approach.

Enhanced Scheduling Support to Improve Continuity of Care in a Resident Training Clinic.

Background: Clinical continuity is recognized as a driver of satisfaction for patients and physicians. Greater continuity may positively affect trainee decisions to enter primary care. Maintaining clinical continuity remains a challenge in residency clinics.

Implementation of an Interprofessional Nutrition Workshop to Integrate Nutrition Education into a Preclinical Medical School Curriculum.

The patient-physician encounter provides an ideal opportunity to assess a patient's dietary history and its impact on total health. However, nutrition assessments and counseling in physician-patient encounters is often lacking. Insufficient nutrition education during medical school may lead to insecurity in assessing and counseling patients.

Design thinking in medical ethics education.

Background: Design thinking (DT) is a tool for generating and exploring ideas from multiple stakeholders. We used DT principles to introduce students to the ethical implications of organ transplantation. Students applied DT principles to propose solutions to maximise social justice in liver transplant allocation.

"A PCMH mind and a PCMH heart": Patient, faculty, and learner perspectives on collaborative care in an interprofessional team-based training programme.

Rationale, Aims, And Objectives: Providing high-quality primary care in patient-centred medical homes (PCMHa) requires competencies that can only be provided by interprofessional (IP) education. The benefits of collaborative training have been documented for learners, but less is known about the perceptions of the clinical professionals who train the learners or the patients receiving IP primary care. This investigation compared stakeholder attitudes about IP education, training, and providing collaborative care prior to developing a new IP training programme.

Caring for Patients With Physical Disabilities: Assessment of an Innovative Spinal Cord Injury Session That Addresses an Educational Gap.

Despite the fact that one fifth of Americans live with disability, caring for these patients is not routinely part of the undergraduate medical student curriculum. An innovative session addressing care of patients with spinal cord injury was developed for medical students and led by physiatrists, faculty experts in communications, and individuals with spinal cord injury. A mixed-method design was used in evaluating students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes following this curriculum.

Perceptions of a longitudinal standardized patient experience by standardized patients, medical students, and faculty.

Background: Longitudinal standardized patient (LSP) experiences mimic clinical practice by allowing students to interact with standardized patients (SPs) over time. LSP cases facilitate practice, assessment, and feedback in clinical skills and foster an appreciation for the continuum of care.

Objective: We sought to characterize the nature of relationship-building, feedback, and continuity among all stakeholders participating in a single LSP program.