Society of Hospital Medicine | Hospital Medicine 2009 Blog

Congratulations to the 2009 RIV Poster Competition Winners!

koriolo — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:13:44 +0000

Since the inception of the Society of Hospital Medicine Annual Meeting, the Research, Innovations, and Clinical Vignettes (RIV) Competition has been an integral part of the program. The number of abstract entries has grown to 406 for Hospital Medicine 2009, and quality and creativity have grown with quantity. Topics spanned many clinical areas and ranged from scientific research to innovations in hospital medicine practice to diagnostic dilemmas in clinical medicine.
Over 200 submissions were accepted for poster presentation at this year’s annual meeting. From this group, our RIV committee and judges chose the four best posters from the research, innovations, adult clinical vignettes and pediatric clinical vignettes categories.

The Society of Hospital Medicine congratulates the following winners for their outstanding poster presentations:

Winning Research Poster
Eduard Vasilevskis for poster #99, PREDICTORS OF EARLY POST-DISCHARGE MORTALITY IN CRITICALLY ILL PATIENTS: LESSONS FOR QUALITY PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY ASSESSMENT

Winning Innovations Poster
Leonard Feldman for poster #113, AN INTERNET-BASED CONSULT CURRICULUM FOR HOSPITALISTS

Winning Clinical Vignettes Poster (Pediatric)
Jason Price for poster #189, AN ORANGE A DAY KEEPS THE DOCTOR AWAY

Winning Clinical Vignettes Poster (Adult)
Jason Morrow for poster #174, WHEN TO DEPEND ON THE KININS OF STRANGERS: AN UNUSUAL CASE OF CHRONIC ABDOMINAL PAIN

We would like to thank our RIV Committee, Research Co-chairs Margaret Fang, MD, MPH, FHM and Vineet Arora, MD, MA, FHM Innovations Co-chairs Jeffrey Greenwald, MD, FHM and Luci Leykum, MD, FHM and Clinical Vignettes Co-chairs Arun Kalyanasundaram, MD and Christopher Whinney, MD.

A special thank you to Annual Meeting Course Director Joseph M. Li, MD, FHM and all of our RIV judges.

Are people really like airplanes?

Danielle Scheurer — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:01:41 +0000

As I was flying back home after another invigorating year at the SHM annual meeting, I started thinking about the number of times I have heard the healthcare industry compared to the airline industry. About how they have gotten it all right, and we have gotten it all wrong. And I started thinking; maybe it’s because people aren’t really like airplanes. Imagine you are air traffic control, and this is the sign out you get from an incoming pilot: “Good day, air traffic control, we need your help to safely land our 7 ton jumbo jet approaching from the east. We overfilled the fuel tank, are 7000 pounds over acceptable landing weight, and have a 79 year old hydraulic system. We are flying with a single functioning wing after having neglected to get the broken wing fixed, despite repeated requests by our home engineer. We appear to be approaching at 500 feet under acceptable altitude and are dangerously low on cabin pressure”. In the midst of trying to negotiate the safe landing of that plane, 3 minutes later you see a second plane come on the radar screen, who comes over the crackly radio system to give you the following sign out: “Good day air traffic control, we need your help to safely land our combustible steel machine, after having suffered the loss of one engine and both horizontal stabilizers, with a rudder that is hanging by a thread”. You then get notified that a kamikaze aircraft is heading directly toward the air traffic control tower with estimated impact about 6 minutes. But, oh by the way, for those simultaneously landing aircraft, you should follow the best practices and evidence based procedures for their landing, and when you are done, be sure to report and publicly display the >300 required measures, to benchmark how you did

And with that, farewell, thank you for another great year, and keep up the good work.

Audio: Keynote Recap with Dr. Bob Wachter

SHMadmin — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:51:05 +0000

Hospital Medicine 2009 Keynote speaker, Robert Wachter, MD, FHM shares a recap of his earlier address, as well as offers insight into his blog, Wachter’s World.

Audio: Top 10 of HM09 from your HM10 Course Director

SHMadmin — Sun, 17 May 2009 18:47:29 +0000

Hospital Medicine 2010 Course Director, Amir Jaffer, MD, FHM shares his Top 10 moments from this year’s meeting.

Thank you, SHM Staff

Randy Ferrance — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:09:48 +0000

As I sit here in the Grand Ballroom waiting for Bob Wachter to take the stage, I am again struck with the incredible enormity of the sheer amount of work involved in putting something like this together. All of us in SHM owe all those folks who “wake up each morning wondering how they can make Larry [Wellikson] look good today” a huge ‘Thank You’. I joined the NAIP as a resident in either it’s first or second year, and I’ve been privileged to be at a number of these Annual Conferences now. Every one has been better than the one before. If there were growing pains in adjusting for the near-exponential rise in attendance from year to year, they certainly have not shown. I’ve always felt the key to success was to surround yourself with the right people, then just get out of their way and let them do what they do best and by that measure, Larry surely has been a great success. I clearly make the right decision each year when I choose to come to SHM and skip both ACP and AAP in order to be able to afford to do so. The only other body that even comes close to doing this good a job is the AAHPM, which tends to be my other main yearly conference.

The sheer breadth and width of talent that SHM manages to attact – both in lecturers and attendees – is nothing short of impressive. This morning I was able to catch up on practice management (What Have You Done for me Lately) and medical management (Heme/Onc emergencies/urgencies and Updates in diagnosis and managment of CAD), and soon I’ll hear from Bob Wachter on managing accountability in a no-blame environment. It looks like a lot of folks have aready left – a shame, that.

Anyway, this will likely be my last blog post from HM09. I want to thank the SHM/The Hospitalist staff for allowing me this voice and a chance to participate as more than just a face in the crowd.

Safe travels, everyone. See you next year at HM10 in DC (closer to my little corner of the nation).

And I still have trouble believing that Larry can’t remember all 10,000 of our names.

Audio: Palliative Care

SHMadmin — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:45:51 +0000

Dr. Mona Patel shares her thoughts on why its important for hospitalists to focus on palliative care.

Audio: Undergraduate Preceptorship in Internal Medicine

SHMadmin — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:48:36 +0000

Dr. Nasim Afsarmanesh introduces her poster on Promoting Hospital Medicine: The Undergraduate Preceptorship in Internal Medicine (UPIM).

Audio: Insight from a Resident

SHMadmin — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:43:47 +0000

Dr. Kelley Wachsberg, 3rd year internal medicine at Northwestern University shares the “resident’s view” of Hospital Medicine 2009.

Audio: Project BOOST

SHMadmin — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:12:24 +0000

Tina Budnitz shares the importance of the new National discharge initiative, Project BOOST.

Audio: Live from the Fellows Lounge

SHMadmin — Sun, 17 May 2009 12:05:57 +0000

We stopped by the Fellows Lounge, a VIP area of Hospital Medicine 2009 available to those who have achieved the status of Fellow in Hospital Medicine. Drs. David Gugliotti and Brad Flansbaum were there to tell us about today’s President’s luncheon and the festivities surrounding the induction of the 2009 class of Fellows.