DHM held our first in-person divisional retreat since 2020! The theme was "Building relationships at work." We kicked off with an incredible game of "DHM Bingo," organized by Rosemary Yau. Then Paul Axelrod from the UCSF Learning & Organization Development Office helped us understand our unique work strengths and talents through a session on Clifton Strengths. More pictures available in Box.
Leadership of the cardiac and nighttime hospitalist services has been separated to reflect the rapid expansion of both services in the past few year. Aline Zorianwill continue as the director, focused on the night services. Salman Rahman will step into the new director role dedicated to cardiac hospitalist services. We will be recruiting an Assistant Director for the cardiac services in the coming months.
DHM Social Activities
We held our Annual After-the-Holidays Party at Vault Garden. More pictures available in Box.
Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine
A "pearl" in promoting Equity and Belonging is a short, action-oriented, topic that aims to raise awareness, increase concern, and share strategies to mitigate our institutional inequities and promote inclusion.
What is the origin of our discontents? Beginning in February, Black History Month, the "Health Equity and Belonging" pearls will explore this question. We will promote critical consciousness, and we will seek solutions with application of the learning to concrete hospital medicine situations. Read more here.
To share your reflections, provide feedback or comments, or to share pearls for the next DHM newsletter, please email yalda.shahram@ucsf.edu.
Publications
James Harrison is co-author of a multi-site qualitative study published in the American Journal of Hospital Medicine which examined clinicians' views on patients' understanding of their care and perspectives on possible solutions for improving patient understanding during hospitalization.
Sarah Flynn, Sandra Oreper, Molly Kantor, and Michelle Mourad were co-authors of a study recently published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine that highlighted how an intervention designed to improve advance care planning documentation in hospitalized patients widened a disparity across race and ethnicity.
"I do a happy dance every time David Arboleda is the Flow MD. He is so proactive, resourceful, and communicative. He really goes above and beyond to try to expedite discharge. Thank you David for being an amazing flow MD."
We want to share some of the specific recognitions we have received directly from our nursing colleagues about our hospitalists' communication with bedside nurses. These quotes were anonymously submitted as free response comments by various nurses on 14L, 14M, and 15L through our ongoing RN communication survey.
"Shoutout to Dr. Erin Yao-Cohen!Very professional and call at the beginning of the shift to discuss plan/ communicate a tentative care plan and come to the bed side every day to discuss the plan of care."
– 14L RN
"Dr. Ethel Wu gave very thorough report for the plan of care for my patient."
– 15L RN
"Dr. Andy Laikept me in the loop for our patient and I knew what the plan was early in the day. This helped me tremendously when I saw the patient as there were some pretty deep and heavy conversations that were happening that morning. It helped me understand what was truly going on and be even more empathic."
– 15L RN
Thank you for your continued engagement in efforts to improve physician-nurse communication!
– Sarah Flynn and Esther Hsiang, Improving Physician-Nurse Communication QI Initiative Champions
If you have content you would like to share for an upcoming newsletter, please reach out to Tiffany.Lee@ucsf.edu.
