Search results for "Training"
Lots to learn about long-term care
A new curriculum helped hospitalists moving into postacute care fill gaps in their knowledge base.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/02/28/lots-to-learn-about-long-term-care.htm
28 Feb 2024
Training in time-limited trials associated with less use of nonbeneficial ICU treatments
In a pre- and postintervention quality improvement study, physicians at three academic hospitals in California were trained to use time-limited trials of interventions in communication and care planning with families and surrogate decision makers of critically ill ICU patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2021/04/21/4.htm
21 Apr 2021
April 12, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/04/12/
ICU clinician education increased guideline compliance, decreased ICU brain dysfunction
A trial in the Netherlands required ICU nurses and physicians to complete two e-learning programs, one focused on delirium screening and the other focused on recommendations from the American College of Critical Care Medicine's 2013 guidelines on pain, agitation, and delirium.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2019/01/16/3.htm
16 Jan 2019
Learning on the late shift
Training programs and hospitalists are working to make night coverage more educational.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/22/free/learning-on-the-late-shift.htm
22 Mar 2023
Government highlights need for consent before exams on patients under anesthesia
In response to reports of intimate exams being performed by trainees on patients under anesthesia, officials called on academic hospitals and medical schools to always obtain and document informed consent.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/04/10/government-highlights-need-for-consent-before-exams-on-patients-under-anesthesia.htm
10 Apr 2024
Time for change in critical care training, society says
A new white paper from the Society of Critical Care Medicine calls for development of a common critical care medicine examination cosponsored by the medical specialty boards overseeing the subspecialty.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/07/11/4.htm
11 Jul 2018
Unlicensed
Small oversights can line up to cause a major problem.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/12/13/free/unlicensed.htm
13 Dec 2023
March 22, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/22/
Training in breathing exercises before upper abdominal surgery reduced postoperative pulmonary complications
Within six weeks before surgery, patients had a 30-minute training session with a physiotherapist, which involved coaching in the breathing exercises, education about pulmonary complications, and an individualized risk assessment.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/01/31/3.htm
31 Jan 2018