August 2020
Finding new ways to teach procedures
Simulation is part of the current model for procedure training.
Are you ready for your close-up?
Follow these tips to optimize virtual teaching and keep trainees engaged.
APPs key to pandemic planning
Advanced practice providers (APPs) shifted roles in preparation for a COVID-19 surge.
What happens when an academic hospital closes?
The program director of Hahnemann University Hospital's IM residency tells the story.
Inpatient insulin: Secrets to smoother switches
Irl B. Hirsch, MD, MACP, offers tips for moving patients to formulary options.
How to be appealing: Peer-to-peer conversations 101
Typically there is general agreement between the clinical side and the payer side. But reasonable people can disagree.
Another way to detect breakdowns in care
A program encouraged patients to report problems that arose during hospitalization.
Cerebrovascular disease
ICD-10-CM codes for cerebrovascular accident specify laterality and affected artery.
MKSAP quiz on stroke
This month's quiz includes questions from ACP's Medical Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (MKSAP 18) on stroke.
COVID-19's effects on teaching and stroke care
This issue focuses on academic medicine, but also offers expert advice on stroke care and insulin switches.
COPD education, gender of leaders, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.
Pneumonia therapies, hospital flu spread, and more
Research summaries from ACP Hospitalist Weekly.