We would like to learn about how people who apply for healthcare financial assistance experience the application process, including things that make the application process work well or that were challenging. At this time we are not able to offer interviews to people who applied to UNC or Duke, we are interested in hearing from people who applied to other programs (such as Atrium, Novant, Wake, Vidant, ECU, Cape Fear Health Net, Physicians Reach Out, or Project Access).

We would like to receive advice on the design of a research trial from people who have used the service we will be studying before.

We are validating a revised questionnaire that looks at the quality of dying and death a patient experiences at end of life.

We are studying the triage decision making process of healthcare providers. Our goal is to understand what factors influence the triage decision making process. With the growing burden of emergency department overcrowding and strained hospital capacity, the need to keep patients out of the emergency department is great, when safely able to do so. A better understanding of how and why patients are triaged can help direct work to safely care for patients in the outpatient setting.

This is a study assessing the impact of Geriatrics SCPs on medical student attitudes toward careers working with older adults and their career choice. The results will guide medical schools in whether to start or continue this type of program for medical students.

We are exploring the experiences of family members whose loved ones had severe brain injuries and transitioned to hospice while on a breathing machine and had the breathing machine removed at hospice.

The primary objective is to establish a comprehensive registry of hospitalized patients with respiratory failure. The registry will be a platform for forthcoming research initiatives. This registry's purpose is to collect vital participant data and specimens, capitalizing on the substantial expertise in respiratory and immunologic translational science at the University of North Carolina.

The transition from functioning as an intern in the first year of residency to leading inpatient teams in the second year of residency and beyond is a challenging one for internal medicine trainees. We seek to understand how best to help our trainees navigate this transition by conducting a needs assessment of current internal medicine residents in small focus groups. Through these meetings we will collect and aggregate the experiences of residents who have made this transition, and use their feedback, challenges, and suggested areas for growth to build a curriculum designed to empower trainees to make this transition with confidence. We aim to publish our findings to assist other training programs in addressing this same issue, however our primary goal is to use our findings internally to improve our resident experience as well as patient care.

We are evaluating the impact of IM student chiefs' review sessions on students' performance and satisfaction with their OSCE (observed standardized clinical evaluation) during their Medicine clerkship through a post-OSCE survey