Our Internal Medicine Residency offers a 2-year pathway for categorical or primary care internal medicine residents who develop a career interest in hospital medicine. This pathway provides residents with the skills needed to seamlessly transition into an academic hospitalist role and provides exposure to critical aspects of hospital medicine such as quality improvement, healthcare economics, billing and coding, and research stewardship.
Residents wishing to participate in the Hospital Medicine Pathway apply during the first year of training in our program. Candidates are selected through a competitive application, with a focus on small cohorts to allow for closer mentoring and greater collaboration between trainees and pathway faculty mentors.
Components of pathway
Rotations
- Additional opportunity for inpatient electives in other relevant fields to improve healthcare transitions (e.g. ICU to improve ICU triage skills, clinical pharmacy to improve anticoagulation and antimicrobial stewardship skills, neurology, etc.)
- Community Hospitalist rotation at a local community hospital to provide inpatient non-teaching clinical experience
- Hospital Medicine elective at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
- Rotation in post-hospital discharge clinic (Focus on the transition of patients from hospital to community care)
- Ultrasound elective (learn diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, with the goal of procedure certification and comfort)
Education
- Hospital Medicine Journal Club
- Hospitalist-specific didactics on practice management, coding, research stewardship, billing, working with advanced practice providers, consultation regarding pre-operative care and surgical co-management
- IHI (Institute for Healthcare Improvement) “Open School” learning module subscription
- Individual mentorship for professional development
- Inpatient QI project. Each resident will be encouraged to identify an area for quality improvement and will be matched to an appropriate faculty mentor, as they will be encouraged to implement a PDSA cycle within the course of an academic year and present their work in regional or national meetings or through publications.
- Longitudinal sessions throughout the curriculum with dedicated teaching in the areas of clinical Hospital Medicine, quality improvement, healthcare economics
- Membership in the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) and attendance at 1 SHM meeting
- Professional development includes CV preparation, interview skills, teaching workshops, future planning
Candidates for the residency program who wish to know more about the Med Ed Path are invited to contact the Pathway Director Sage Gale via email sage.e.gale@hitchcock.org.