Importance Burnout is a work-related syndrome of depersonalization (DP), emotional
exhaustion (EE), and low personal achievement (PA) that is prevalent among internal …

Abstract Background The United States is facing a primary care physician shortage. Internal
medicine (IM) primary care residency programs have expanded substantially in the past …

The current study by Heppe et al1 examines the impact of the implementation of a novel
block schedule at a large, academic, internal medicine residency program. This intervention …

Introduction Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an integral aspect of critical care and
emergency medicine curriculums throughout the country, but it has been slow to integrate …

“Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets”(1). Throughout the course of
traditional pulmonary and critical care medicine (PCCM) training, the unyielding urgency of …

Communication in medical education and clinical practice has undergone significant
transformations in the everevolving landscape of medicine. The COVID-19 pandemic …

Background The “X+ Y” residency scheduling model includes “X” weeks of uninterrupted
inpatient or subspecialty rotations, followed by “Y” week (s) of uninterrupted outpatient …

Background The efficacy of just-in-time teaching (JiTT) screencasts for graduate medical
education on an inpatient adult hematology-oncology service (HOS) setting is not known …

The increased ambulatory training time in an “X+ Y”(inpatient+ ambulatory) residency
schedule affords more opportunities to teach geriatrics principles of care. We describe our …

The X+ Y scheduling approach, or block scheduling, is common among internal medicine
residency programs. With the beginning of a pilot program through the American College of …