A MULTICENTER STUDY EVALUATING PERCEPTIONS AND KNOWLEDGE OF INPATIENT GLYCEMIC CONTROL AMONG RESIDENT PHYSICIANS: ANALYZING THEMES TO INFORM AND IMPROVE CARE.

In this descriptive study, we evaluated perceptions and knowledge of inpatient glycemic control among resident physicians. We performed this study at four academic medical centers: the University of Mississippi Medical Center, University of Virginia Health System, University of Louisville Health Sciences Center, and Emory University. We designed a questionnaire, and Institutional Review Board approval was granted at each institution prior to study initiation.

Construction and preliminary evaluation of the inpatient glycemic control questionnaire (IGCQ): a survey tool assessing perceptions and knowledge of resident physicians.

Background: Uncontrolled hyperglycemia in hospitalized patients, with or without diabetes mellitus, is associated with many adverse outcomes. Resident physicians are the primary managers of inpatient glycemic control (IGC) in many academic and community medical centers; however, no validated survey tools related to their perceptions and knowledge of IGC are currently available. As identification of common barriers to successful IGC amongst resident physicians may help foster better educational interventions (ultimately leading to improvements in IGC and patient care), we sought to construct and preliminarily evaluate such a survey tool.

Impact of pharmacist intervention on glucagon prescribing patterns in an outpatient internal medicine teaching clinic.

Objectives: To examine changes in the rate of glucagon prescribing within an internal medicine resident clinic following pharmacist-led interventions and to analyze glucagon prescribing patterns.

Setting: Urban, internal medicine residency teaching clinic.

Practice Description: Providers in the teaching clinic include internal medicine residents, supervised by faculty attending physicians.

Recruitment and retention in academic medicine--what junior faculty and trainees want department chairs to know.

Attracting and retaining bright and motivated physicians remains a high priority for academia. Historically, the recruitment of trainees into academia and the retention of junior faculty have been suboptimal. To learn more about the perceived obstacles that discourage the pursuit of academic careers, a Workshop on Academic Career Pathways was conducted during the 2011 Southern Regional Meetings held in New Orleans.