Monthly Newsletter | February 2025 | |
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Nathan Ziman
Project Mentor: Molly Kantor
Project Title: Establishing a DHM Diagnostic Feedback Program for Hospitalists
Description: Diagnostic error is a critical and growing focus both locally and nationally. This proposal aims to bridge a key gap by developing an innovative feedback framework to enhance diagnostic reasoning and support clinical excellence within the division.
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Monisha Bhatia, David Arboleda, Guinn Dunn, and Prashant Patel
Project Mentors: Brandon Scott and Michelle Mourad
Project Title: The Discharge Team: Achieving Reduction in Burnout Through Improvement of Goldman Medical Service Discharges
Description: Optimizing discharge practices is essential for improving patient care, physician well-being, and hospital efficiency. Built on a strong existing infrastructure, this project introduces an innovative approach to discharge support with the potential to reduce burnout, enhance workflow, and serve as a scalable model for broader implementation.
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Anoop Muniyappa has been named the inaugural Director of AI Innovation and Medical Education | |
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Profiles Search Assistant, led by Gregory Ow, has been selected as a project at the intersection of AI and medical education that will be funded by DOM. | |
Andy Auerbach is Editor in Chief of the General Medicine/Hospital Medicine sections of Up To Date. | |
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Esther Hsiang successfully completed the Improvement and Leadership Development Program teach back and is now officially recognized as a UCSF Health Lean Champion! She joins an incredible group of physician leaders from Hospital Medicine who have earned this distinction. | |
The UCSF HEAL (Health, Equity, Action, and Leadership) Initiative is celebrating 10 years of training and transforming health workers from around the world to thrive while expanding access to care in underserved communities. The Decade of HEALing Report reflects on their first 10 years, shares powerful stories of impact, and looks ahead to the future. Check out the report today! | |
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Event Title: Survival, Healing, and Performance: Formerly Incarcerated Voices on Health Justice Inside & Out
Event Location and Date: 198 McAllister St (Auditorium) on Thursday, April 3, 2025, 6-8:30 pm
Blurb: This event features performances by three solo theater performers, Tony Cyprien, Pamela Ann Keane, and Tylon Sizemore, all of whom have lived through incarceration, sharing their personal encounters with the justice and healthcare systems. Through their stories, the performers will explore life behind bars and upon reentering society. Their poignant and necessary narratives will shed light on injustices entrenched within the carceral system, including systemic obstacles to adequate healthcare and the poor treatment endured by incarcerated individuals, especially those from marginalized racial backgrounds. Following the performances, there will be a live Q+A with the performers, UCSF researchers, and a former Alameda County Public Defender. Attendance is free — sign up using this Eventbrite link!
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Welcome to the heart of DHM! This spot is all about keeping you in the loop on all things community—highlights from last month's events, snapshots of fun moments, and a heads-up on what's coming up next month. Keep an eye here for dates, details, and photos that celebrate our DHM community spirit! Reach out to Rosemary Yau to share yours. | |
CSB-5 Karaoke at Festa 2/6 | |
Equity & Belonging in Hospital Medicine | |
DHM's Social Medicine team is hosting another series of volunteer opportunities at GLIDE in the Tenderloin. Come serve lunch at GLIDE's Free Meal Program, which serves on average 500-600 meals during this shift every day, with your fellow DHM'ers! Family and friends encouraged to join! Email Martha.Ockenfels-Martinez@ucsf.edu to sign up for a shift. Natalie Francis will be the lunchtime DHM lead at every shift, so no matter if you're coming solo or with friends, you'll have a DHM colleague to work with!
GLIDE Lunch-Shift Volunteer Dates:
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Thursday, February 27th 11:30am-1:30pm
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Wednesday, March 5th 11:30am-1:30pm
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Wednesday, March 26th 11:30am-1:30pm
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Thursday, April 17th 11:30am-1:30pm
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Wednesday, May 14th 11:30am-1:30pm
Also upcoming: Yalda and Sally – in collaboration with Annie, Margaret, and Brad – are hosting a special Tea House event on May 30, 2025, from 9am-4pm on campus for CME credit. The principles of Targeted Universalism (Targeted Universalism Explained) will be applied to the dialogue-based curriculum throughout the day. Register here: Tea House Registration Survey.
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January's PFAC meeting focused on the PFAC's grassroots quality improvement project, which has now launched the in-room QR codes! The QR code will bring patients/families to a PFAC-developed Qualtrics survey with questions aimed at understanding: what's the best method to get feedback on patient experience from patients/families while they are in the hospital. If you see the vinyl sticker you'll know its from our PFAC work! And we've got a few PFAC openings in the springtime — please email Martha if you'd like to come and get great patient/family feedback on your project, programming, or research.
- Signed, the PFAC facilitator team, Jeannie, Mia, Martha & James
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Photo of 3 PFAC members, Darryl, Harry, and Michelle | |
Nora Hutchinson was a coauthor on an article recently published in JAMA Neurology exploring how the ethical challenges of N-of-1 trials for serious neurological diseases could be addressed by integrating current approaches into learning health care systems. | |
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Akshar Rambachan had an opinion published in the SF Chronicle on cultural belonging and the legacy of Indian percussionist Zakir Hussain. | |
Ashish Gandhi was lead author on a concise report recently accepted for publication in the Journal of General Internal Medicine which described the impact of one drug repository program, which redistributed unused medications from institutional pharmacies to patients otherwise unable to access them, in terms of the types of medications redistributed and their estimated value. | |
Ashish Gandhi was co-author on a concise report accepted by the Journal of General Internal Medicine which analyzed responses in completed Individualized Learning Plans (ILPs), or forms filled out by incoming IM interns containing self-identified areas of improvement and goals for their intern year. | |
Cindy Lai and colleagues published an article in Academic Medicine on how grading committees can improve grade assignment and address grading inconsistencies. | |
Ben Rosner, Andy Auerbach, Guillen Austria (former DHM), and Tiffany Lee published a paper in JMIR Medical Informatics on how they developed, with inputs from industry, health care providers, payers, regulatory bodies, and patients through the Accelerated Digital Clinical Ecosystem (ADviCE) consortium, an ontology specific to DHT outcomes, the Digital medicine Outcomes Value Set (DOVeS). | |
More Publications from DHM | |
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Thank you so much to Daniel Reiss for all of your help tonight! You were incredibly responsive and helpful with our challenging patient tonight. I felt like you really listened to us and our concerns, and you respected what we had to say. We are so grateful!
- Darlene Green
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Just wanted to send a quick thank you to David Arboleda for excellent swing coverage of my pretty active service yesterday pm. Multiple providers/consultants today told me folks were managed incredibly well (in big and small ways) and you went above and beyond in a few ways to get things done for patients that made their overall care better.
- Trevor Jensen
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The Onboarding Team (Sally Guthrie, Emily Insetta, and Kirsten Kangelaris) would like to recognize this year's outstanding Individual Ambassadors! An Individual Ambassador (IA) is assigned to each new faculty/fellow to serve as a "friend at work" and source of support as they get started in the DHM. We consistently hear from new hires how meaningful these relationships are to them. Thank you to all of the IAs for your kindness, enthusiasm, and generosity, which reflect what makes the DHM community so wonderful!
We typically pair IAs based on overlapping clinical time with new hires during their first time on clinical service, but if anyone is particularly interested in serving in this role in the future, please reach out!
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Physician-Nurse Communication QI Initiative | |
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. | |
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"Rebecca Nessel communicated clearly and promptly by CareWeb messaging and texting, very helpful, thank you."
– 15L RN
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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
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If you have content you would like to share for an upcoming newsletter, please reach out to Tiffany.Lee@ucsf.edu.
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