Academic Medicine

Patient Priorities Care – Helping Your Patients Identify their Health Priorities

In 2014, clinicians, patients, caregivers, health system leaders, payers, and funders from across the country came together to identify the key problems facing older adults with multiple chronic conditions. Their charge was to propose feasible and effective strategies for improving…

Workplace Violence in Ambulatory Care

Many office practices do not have any policies or processes in place to reduce the risk of workplace violence. Indeed, unless your practice has experienced a serious event, it is probable that you haven’t thought much about this particular risk….

SCOPE of Pain: Safer and Competent Opioid Prescribing Education

This activity is a series of online and live meeting CME/CNE programs designed to help healthcare providers, of all specialties, safely and effectively manage patients with acute or chronic pain and when appropriate, with opioid analgesics.

Sepsis: Early Recognition and Treatment

Sepsis remains a time-critical emergency. As with stroke, trauma and heart attack, the identification and response to sepsis should be urgent and protocol-based. This course discusses how mortality has been reduced where multidisciplinary hospital teams have implemented screening tools, standardized…

Burnout in Health Care: Swimming in Turbulent Water

The incidence of burnout has risen to the extent that 40% to 70% of physician and nurse populations have at least one symptom of burnout. Researchers are finding that healthcare systems changes must accompany personal resilience strategies before we will…

Acute Chest Pain: Evaluating Patients and Stratifying Risks

Chest pain is the second most common presenting complaint in the ED accounting for 6 million visits in the US annually and about 2 million of them are discharged to home from the Emergency Department. Of those patients discharged to…

Surgeons and Burnout

Between 40% and 65% of surgeons are suffering from at least one symptom of burnout, according to a recent national study. Evidence indicates that burned-out surgeons are more likely to experience negative personal consequences such as addictions, sleep disorders, cardiovascular…

Escalation of Care: A Quality Improvement Initiative

Surgical residents do not always call the attending physician about critical patient events, believing that it is not necessary or that the call will not be welcome. Failure to call for help is associated with failure to rescue, adverse events…