Pain Management for Primary Care Providers: A Narrative Review of High-Impact Studies, 2014-2016.

Objective: This manuscript reviews high-impact, peer-reviewed studies published from January 2014 to March 2016 that are relevant to pain management in primary care. Given the recent release of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's "Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain" emphasizing the primacy of nonopioid treatment, we focused our review on nonopioid pain management.

Design: Narrative review of peer-reviewed literature.

The clinic is my woodshed: a new paradigm for learning and refining communication skills.

Jazz cats use the term 'woodshedding' to denote a period of intense practice during which they aim to take their playing up a few notches. Developing expertise, whether we are speaking musically or talking about communicating with patients, requires a lifelong commitment to such practice. For physicians, the woodshed is not a practice room or an isolated space.

Promoting high value inpatient care via a coaching model of structured, interdisciplinary team rounds.

The professional development of early career hospital physicians may be improved by embedding an experienced physician in a coaching role during structured, interdisciplinary team rounds. This article gives a descriptive report of such a model and discusses how it may promote delivery of high-value care to adult inpatients.

From theory to actual practice: creation and application of milestones in an internal medicine residency program, 2004-2010.

Background: In the USA, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education, Educational Innovations Project is a partner in reshaping residency training to meet increasingly complex systems of health care delivery.

Aim: We describe the creation and implementation of milestones as a vehicle for translating educational theory into practice in preparing residents to provide safe, autonomous patient care.

Method: Six program faculty leaders, all with advanced medical education training, met in an iterative process of developing, implementing, and modifying milestones until a final set were vetted.

"I can do patient care on my own": autonomy and the manager role.

Purpose: An internal medicine (IM) residency program redesigned its second year, the Manager Year, to restore balance among autonomy, supervision, and clinical competence. This study examined the response of residents and some supervising attendings to this innovation.

Method: In this qualitative study-part of a total program evaluation-two authors gathered data from 36 second-year resident-managers, 3 third-year residents, and 8 attendings through semistructured interviews between spring 2005 and spring 2007.