Focus Areas
Medical education research, professional development, communication with patients.
Vision:
To enhance patient care by enhancing the educational and communication competencies of hospital-based clinicians.
Mission:
We systematically assess the education of hospital-based clinicians in patient care. This involves a thorough analysis of current practices and identifying areas for improvement. Through comprehensive educational initiatives, we aim to elevate satisfaction levels and reduce attrition rates among hospital-based clinicians.
Values:
Patient centered, educator centered, collaborative, generalizable, effective, sustainable, evidence informed.
Strategic Goals
Advancing the hospitalist role in healthcare education
Project
Assess current state of hospitalist role within healthcare education
Identify barriers and opportunities for improvement
Promote evidence-based best practices in healthcare education
Tactic: Utilize HOMERuN network to understand current landscape
Tactic: Leverage hospitalist expertise in hospital systems
Tactic: Create and share opportunities to increase visibility of hospitalists in healthcare education
Collaborative call to understand rounding practices and impact on education and clinical care
Improve how hospitalists deliver education to all healthcare professionals
Project
Evaluate the professional development infrastructure among HM groups
Compare and evaluate effectiveness of different hospitalist practices in healthcare education
Develop a shared resource of healthcare education tips and best practices
Develop a shared resource of professional development speakers/topics
Tactic: Disseminate best practices through traditional and non-traditional venues
Tactic: Identify and develop methods to measure success of different educational strategies
Tactic: Identify and develop metrics on the impact of healthcare education on patient care to advocate for funding/resources from leadership
Exploring faculty development in Hospital Medicine
Newsletter to deliver educational tips
Improve communication with patients
Project
Review the literature on communication with patients
Partner with patients
Tactic: Choose the highest yield interventions that improve communication
Tactic: Partner with the patient subgroup of HOMERuN (PFAC)
Brainstorming and will explore further
How the group works to achieve HOMERuN Vision and Mission
Vision:
To transform patient care by fostering, a culture of innovation, collaboration, and support for hospital, medicine teams, dedicated to discovering, evaluating, and implementing breakthroughs in healthcare.
Mission:
Empower and nurture hospital, medicine, teams to develop and implement innovative solutions to elevate the quality, safety, equity, and value of care for hospitalized patients from hospitalization to recovery.
Values:
Patient centered, collaborative, diversity, generalizable, effective, sustainable
Our activities directly contribute to HOMERuN’s overarching 2023 vision and mission. By enhancing the educational and communication competencies of hospital-based clinicians, we foster a culture of innovation and collaboration within hospital medicine teams. We believe that by empowering clinicians with enhanced skills, we contribute to the discovery, evaluation, and implementation of breakthroughs in healthcare, aligning with HOMERuN’s vision of transforming patient care. Our initiatives not only empower individual clinicians but also strengthen the collaborative spirit within hospital medicine teams. This support is crucial for achieving the mission of elevating the quality, safety, equity, and value of care for hospitalized patients. Furthermore, we are committed to expanding the body of medical education literature by conducting rigorous research on educational interventions.
Our subgroup plays a pivotal role in achieving the larger HOMERuN objectives by strategically focusing on the interplay between education, research, and communication to positively impact clinician satisfaction, reduce attrition, and contribute to the transformation of patient care.
Current Projects:
Collaborative Team Lead Names
Amit Pahwa, MD, SFHM, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Director of Internal Medicine Subinternship, Associate Director of Core Clerkship in Pediatrics, Director of Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellowship.
Jack Badawy, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine. Director of Hospital Medicine Fellowship and Faculty Development.
Member names and institutions:
- Kristen Lewis, MD, Ohio State University
- Brian Kwan, MD, MS, UCSD/VA San Diego Healthcare System
- Christopher Bruti, MD, Rush Medical College
- Karnjit Johl, MD, UC Davis Health and School of Medicine
- Neelam Mistry, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Adriana Dhawan, MD, University of Minnesota
- Benjamin Vipler, MD, University of Colorado School of Medicine
- Jack Cunningham, MD, University of Texas Health San Antonio
- Tao Xu, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Andrew Dunn, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- Nkem Mgbojikwe, MD, Fox Chase Cancer Center
- Cassie Shaw, MD University of New Mexico
- Sarah Burns, DO, MS, University of New Mexico
- Stephanie Rennke, MD, University of California, San Francisco
- Jennifer Readlynn, MD, University of Rochester
- Valerie Lang, MD, MHPE University of Rochester
- Sonia Dalal, MD, Johns Hopkins
- Gregory Leslie, MD, University of Massachusetts Memorial
- Eliza Bullis, MD, – Maine Medical center
- Pinky Jha, MD, MPH, FACP, Medical College of Wisconsin
Project
Leads
Status
Educator’s Corner
Amit Pahwa, Jack Badawy, Lucy Shi
In progress
Understanding hospitalist experience in different rounding styles
Greg Leslie, Lucy Shi
In progress
Onboarding new hospitalist physician faculty
Tao Xu
Submitted to JHM
Publications:
- Badawy J, Sakumoto M, Murphy E, Schmit D, Davis C, Segon A, Auerbach A, Burden M. Breaking barriers, building faculty: A qualitative analysis to exploring faculty development in academic hospital medicine. J Hosp Med. 2024;19(9):787-793.
- Sakumoto M, Dunn A. Educating Beyond Training: Structure and Tools to Support Faculty Development and Lifelong Learning. SGIM Forum. November 2022.
- Holzer H, Salib S, Wray C, Santhosh L. Reimagining the Learner–Employee Dyad: Trainees as “Essential Learners.” Acad Med. 2022;97(11):1579-1580. DOI: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000004929
- Guo MZ, Allen J, Sakumoto M, Pahwa A, Santhosh L. Reimagining undergraduate medical education in a post-COVID-19 landscape. J Gen Intern Med. 2022;37:2297-2301. DOI: 10.1007/s11606-022-07503-7
- Wang S, Santhosh L, Wray C. Leadership & Professional development: how to teach when you don’t know. J Hosp Med. 2021;16(9):556. DOI: 10.12788/jhm.3625
