Microaggressions between members of a team occur often in medicine, even despite good intentions. Such situations call for difficult conversations that restore inclusivity, diversity, and a healthy work culture. These conversations are often hard because of the unique background, experiences, and biases of each person.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation training often happens in silos, with minimal interprofessional training. The aim of this study was to implement and evaluate a simulation-enhanced, interprofessional cardiac arrest curriculum in a university hospital. The curriculum ran monthly for 12 months, training interprofessional teams of internal medicine residents, nurses, respiratory therapists, and pharmacy residents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Out of hospital cardiac arrests, especially those due to ventricular tachyarrhythmias, have higher incidence in the morning. It is unknown whether in-hospital cardiac arrests follow a similar pattern.
Aim Of The Study: The purpose of this study was to analyze the circadian variation of in-hospital cardiac arrest incidence.
This study examines videos of cardiopulmonary resuscitation on Google and YouTube to discern the number that show women or female manikins and provide information to facilitate attempts to rescue women in cardiac arrest.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Physical examination skills are receiving less attention in curricula and clinical practice, being supplanted by imaging and other technologies. We developed an online module to introduce auscultation of common cardiac murmurs to second-year medical students.
Methods: The Murmur Online Learning Experience (MOLE) curriculum focused on nine common, unique, or highly testable cardiac murmurs, chosen collaboratively by the authors.