We hope to further study the effect of the Meet My Loved One (MMLO) document on health care delivery, communication between patients/families and staff/providers, as well as potential health care provider resiliency.

We are proposing studying the impact of X+Y scheduling in a combined medicine-pediatrics residency program. These residents already face challenging schedules as a result of being in a joint program. We want to better understand their experiences, which is why focus groups will be used to explore their thoughts.

Our medicine procedure service teaches ultrasound-assistance for lumbar punctures. We have developed a video-based electronic teaching module, as well as a spine model for ultrasound practice, to be used with this training. We plan to assess how this addition of teaching resources improves knowledge acquisition and retention and confidence in use of ultrasound for this procedure.

We are studying the accuracy and utility of two inexpensive, homemade procedure simulators.

To assess if a facilitated curriculum using fine art improves clinical reasoning skills and tolerance of ambiguity in Internal Medicine interns.

Our study seeks to understand how effective a lecture series on common palliative care topics is and how effective changes made over time to the curriculum have been.