Resident Assessment of Clinician Educators According to Core ACGME Competencies.

Background: The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires faculty to pursue annual development to enhance their teaching skills. Few studies exist on how to identify and improve the quality of teaching provided by faculty educators. Understanding the correlation between numeric scores assigned to faculty educators and their tangible, practical teaching skills would be beneficial.

Rallying All Resources: A Multidisciplinary Innovation to Plan for the Projected COVID-19 Inpatient Surge.

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the need for hospitals to plan for a potential "surge" of COVID-19 patients.

Problem: Prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, our hospital adult acute care capacity ranged 90% to 100%, and a potential hospital surge was projected for Oregon that would exceed existing capacity.

Approach: A multidisciplinary team with stakeholders from nursing leadership, nursing units, nurse-led case management, and physicians from hospital medicine was convened to explore the conversion of an ambulatory surgical center to overflow patient acute care capacity.

Transitioning From Volume to Value: Lessons Learned From the Dissolution of a Population Health Partnership.

In 2017, the authors published an article describing the experiences of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) as it adapted to new challenges of changing payment models, the imperative to manage the health of populations, and the desire to compete for statewide contracts. The authors described Propel Health, a multi-institution partnership created in 2013 to deliver the tools, methods, and support necessary for population health management. In the ensuing two years there were considerable changes to the structure and mission of Propel Health, ultimately resulting in its dissolution in January 2018.

Transitioning From Volume to Value: One Academic Medical Center's Approach to Improving Population Health.

Problem: The U.S. health care system is undergoing a major transformation.

A multidisciplinary initiative to standardize intensive care to acute care transitions.

Quality Issue: Transfers from intensive care units to acute care units represent a complex care transition for hospitalized patients. Within our institution, variation in transfer practices resulted in unpredictable processes in which patient safety concerns were raised.

Initial Assessment: Key stakeholders were engaged across the institution.

Putting the pieces together: necrolytic migratory erythema and the glucagonoma syndrome.

Glucagonomas are slow-growing, rare pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors. They may present with paraneoplastic phenomena known together as the "glucagonoma syndrome." A hallmark sign of this syndrome is a rash known as necrolytic migratory erythema (NME).

Thoracic endometriosis unmasked by ovarian hyperstimulation for in vitro fertilization.

Thoracic endometriosis syndrome is a well-described, rare manifestation of endometriosis. We present a case of a 35-year old woman undergoing controlled ovarian stimulation prior to in vitro fertilization (IVF) who developed bilateral hemorrhagic pleural effusions. She was initially diagnosed with ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, a complication of infertility therapy; however, she was later found to have occult thoracic endometriosis.

Fulminant, non-antibiotic associated Clostridium difficile colitis following Salmonella gastroenteritis.

In the last decade there has been increasing awareness of the virulence and changing epidemiology of Clostridium difficile (C. difficile). While the vast majority of clinical cases of C.

Principles of effective consultation: an update for the 21st-century consultant.

Background: Little information in the literature exists to guide consult interactions between different medical specialties.

Methods: A total of 323 general internists, family medicine physicians, general surgeons, orthopedic surgeons, and obstetricians/gynecologists (OB/GYNs) from 3 academic medical centers completed a survey addressing their ideal relationship with consultants. Differences between surgeons and nonsurgeons were calculated using logistic regression, adjusting for location and trainee status.