Educational Contributions

 

 

Hospital Medicine Division faculty lead and participate in numerous educational programs for medical students, medical residents, and midlevel practitioners.

Dr. Donald Bordley, Vice Chair for Education and Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program, oversees educational activities for students and residents in the Department of Medicine.

Dr. Alec O'Connor is the Associate Residency Program Director for the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program and serves as Associate Residency Program Director for Inpatient Services. .

Dr. Valerie Lang serves as the Director of Medicine Clerkship for students.

Dr. Debra Ogie directs educational activities for the midlevel practitioner group.

Dr. Clelia Negrini directs an active journal club.

Hospitalist faculty precept students in the 3rd year Medicine Clerkship and the new 4th year Hospitalist Subinternship. In the elective, students care for a limited number of patients with hospitalist attendings and engage in a scholarly project formally presented at the end of their rotation. Hospitalist faculty also volunteer to precept students during their Comprehensive Assessment, a practical clinical exam in which faculty observe students interacting with standardized patients.

Medicine and Medicine-Pediatrics residents all rotate on the medical service. Resident teams are paired with individual hospitalist faculty members for patient care and educational activities. Hospitalists conduct attending rounds with housestaff teams a minimum of 3 hours each week. Hospitalist faculty participate in resident Morning Report, as well as Noon Conference including Morbidity and Mortality Conference.

HMD faculty also precept upper level residents in the Bedside Scholar Elective at Strong, in which residents oversee midlevel practitioners in the care of patients attended by hospitalist faculty in the morning and perform a quality improvement project in the afternoon. As in the student elective, residents are required to formally present their work at the end of the rotation and are encouraged to submit their work for presentation in other settings.