Background: Heralded as a teaching, assessment and reflective tool, and increasingly as a
longitudinal and holistic perspective of the educator's development, medical educator's …

Background Portfolios are increasingly commonplace in postgraduate medical education.
However, poor understanding of and variations in their content, quality, and structure have …

Academic clinical departments have the opportunity and responsibility to improve the quality
and value of care and patient safety by supporting effective quality improvement activities …

Background A quality framework for hospital-based physiotherapy is lacking. This study
aims to design a framework, building on the currently available literature, to improve the …

BACKGROUND Research by hospitalists may aid the evolution of hospital medicine into an
academic specialty. OBJECTIVE To describe the factors associated with research and …

Methods The authors developed a short survey intended to identify candidate departments
of medicine in the US and Canada for promotions materials review. Institutions were asked …

Graduate medical education (GME) in the United States is financed by contributions from
both federal and state entities that total over $15 billion annually. Within institutions, these …

Infectious diseases physicians are frequently called on to perform quality improvement and
patient safety (QIPS) work. We describe a newly created faculty position at our institution that …

Setting The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is a health science campus with
schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and a graduate division. Our department …

Over the past two decades there has been a burgeoning in the fields of quality improvement
(QI) and patient safety and in the numbers of academic faculty and trainees who are …