Search results for "Hospital medicine"
Getting to quality and safety by ‘degrees'
Programs in quality and patient safety initiatives have come to the fore as graduate-level degrees, adding prestige to a new body of knowledge that has emerged in the past decade.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/05/quality.htm
1 May 2010
Bringing comfort to patients through palliative care
A primary care internist with a background in hospital medicine, hospice care and psychiatry explains how he grew an inpatient consult service to include outpatient services, home services and research programs.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2010/05/profile.htm
1 May 2010
Cognitive strategies take good physicians to greatness
On-the-job learning, feedback, simulation, and deliberate practice can take a good clinician to the next level.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2014/05/cognitive.htm
1 May 2014
Direct-to-consumer tests can cause headaches
This issue also covers ACP's guidance statements on HbA1c targets, culinary cooking as medicine, and NASA astronaut Serena M. Auñón-Chancellor, MD, FACP, and her journey into space.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2018/06/direct-to-consumer-tests-can-cause-headaches.htm
1 Jun 2018
Even many residents in primary care training programs not planning to enter primary care
Most internal medicine residents, even those in primary care residencies, don't plan to practice general internal medicine, a recent survey found.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2012/12/11/1.htm
11 Dec 2012
Officers and Regents election results announced
The election of Officers and Regents has been completed. Terms become effective at the conclusion of the Annual Business Meeting at Internal Medicine Meeting 2016 in Washington, D.C.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/03/regents.htm
1 Mar 2016
A talk on giving talks: Tips to ace medical lectures
Speakers can impact retention, as well as control (at least to some degree) which part of a talk stays with listeners, said one expert lecturer.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2015/06/talk.htm
1 Jun 2015
Physicians not content to stick with the status quo
Health care access has become a top issue in 2008.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2008/05/four.htm
1 May 2008
The August ACP Hospitalist is online
The latest issue of ACP Hospitalist is online.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2014/08/12/8.htm
12 Aug 2014
10 tips for inpatient geriatric care
Optimizing inpatient geriatric care is a common priority for physicians, according to a speaker at the Society of Hospital Medicine's 2016 meeting, held in San Diego in March.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2016/06/geriatrics.htm
1 Jun 2016