Competency frameworks serve various roles including outlining characteristics of a
competent workforce, facilitating mobility, and analysing or assessing expertise. Given these …

BACKGROUND: Handoffs are ubiquitous to Hospital Medicine and are considered a
vulnerable time for patient safety. PURPOSE: To develop recommendations for hospitalist …

BACKGROUND Thoracentesis has been identified as a core competency for hospitalists.
Residency training may not provide adequate preparation to perform this procedure …

Importance Optimal approaches to teaching bedside procedures are unknown. Objective To
identify effective instructional approaches in procedural training. Data sources We searched …

Objective Although there is a growing recognition of the importance of active communication
behaviours from the incoming clinician receiving a patient handover, there are currently no …

Competency framework development in health professions has downstream implications for
all relevant stakeholders, from the professionals themselves, to organisations, and most …

Ultrasound guidance is used increasingly to perform the following 6 bedside procedures that
are core competencies of hospitalists: abdominal paracentesis, arterial catheter placement …

With the advancement in basic and clinical sciences, medical education is also constantly
evolving. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has endorsed …

Background Academic hospitalists engage in many non-clinical domains. Success in these
domains requires support, mentorship, protected time, and networks. To address these non …

Background: With the changing delivery of orthopaedic surgical care, there is a need to
define the knowledge and competencies that are expected of an orthopaedist providing …