Society of Hospital Medicine’s RIV Poster Contest Draws Best, Brightest

The Hospitalist. 2015 May;2015(05):

May 5, 2015 | The Hospitalist

Dr. Boynton, regional medical director for the Northeast for Sound Physicians, has thought that for years, but this year she took the added step of presenting her first two posters. While showcasing one titled “Unit Medical Director as Career Development for Young Hospitalist,” she said years of seeing work similar to her own left her wondering why she didn’t present.

“I’ve done a lot of practice management and process improvement initiatives over the years, and I have not brought them forward here,” she says. “Then when you see other people working on similar things, you kind of kick yourself for not showing how you did it.”

So she did it. And now she’s glad she did.

“I’ve done a lot of practice management and process improvement initiatives over the years, and I have not brought them forward here. Then when you see other people working on similar things, you kind of kick yourself for not showing how you did it.” —Greta Boynton, MD, SFHM

“I feel proud of my hospitalist team,” Dr. Boynton says. “The fact that people are interested in it, the fact that they’re asking questions—practical questions on how it might look on a smaller team—very rewarding.”

Rehan Qayyum, MBBS, medical director of the academic hospitalist program at University of Tennessee College of Medicine in Chattanooga, Tenn., has found one reward particularly useful: peer review.

Over the course of roughly 10 posters presented over the years, he has used the comments of passersby to hone his writing skills. He is now transforming his poster, “Effect of HCAHPS Reporting Patient Satisfaction with Physicians,” into a paper he plans to publish.

The RIV session is free editing.

“They’re talking about what they think about how I should be looking at things that are not very clear, or things they may have interest in,” Dr. Qayyum says. “When I’m writing the discussion part or when I’m writing the methods and results part, I may focus on those [comments], add those parts, maybe. Or highlight those things in discussion where people show interest.

“I may be more focused in what I’m doing and may lose what may be important for other people. But being here and letting other people see my work and discuss it with me … that helps a lot.”

Richard Quinn is a freelance writer in New Jersey.

2015 RIV Winners

Research

Overall: Standardizing Attending Rounds to Improve the Patient Experience: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial

Bradley Monash, MD; Nader Najafi, MD; Dimiter Milev, MPH; Marcia Glass, MD; Yile Ding, MD; Alvin R. Rajkomar, MD; Michelle Mourad, MD; Sumant Ranji, MD; Bradley A. Sharpe, MD and James D Harrison, MPH, PhD

Trainee: Prevalence and Appropriateness of Fasting Orders in the Hospital: “Doctor, When Can I Eat?”

Atsushi Sorita, MD, MPH; Charat Thongprayoon, MD; Adil Ahmed, MD; Ruth E. Bates, MD; John T. Ratelle, MD; Katie M. Rieck, MD; Aditya P. Devalapalli, MD; Meltiady Issa, MD; Riddhi M. Shah, MD; Miguel A. Lalama, MD; Wang Zeng, PhD; M. Hassan Murad, MD, MPH, and Deanne T. Kashiwagi, MD

Innovation

Overall: Developing Frontline Teams to Drive Health System Transformation

Jeffrey J. Glasheen, MD; Ethan Cumbler, MD; Patrick P. Kneeland, MD; Jennifer L. Wiler, MD, MBA; Daniel Hyman, MD; Gail Armstrong, DNP, PhD, ACNS-BC, CNE; Sarah J. Caffrey, MBA; Zachary Robison, MBA; Bryan Gomez, BA; Molly Lane, BS; Michelle Rove, BS; Heather J. Bennett, MS, MBA, and Read G. Pierce, MD

Trainee Award: Enhancing Patient Engagement in Stroke Care: Developing Patient Centered Tools

David Medrano; Megan Ross, MPH; Stephen Groves, MBA; Melanie Muszelik; Madeline Rovira; Rachel de Andrade Pereira, MS; Joseph R Sweigart, MD; Read G. Pierce, MD, and Darlene Tad-y, MD

Vignettes

Overall: Leave No Stone Unturned

Dr. John Stephens, MD, and Davis Viprakasit, MD

Trainee: Discharge Against Medical Advice: A Challenge in Patient-Centered Care

Parker Richards Hill, MD, and Jennifer Pascoe, MD

Pediatric Hospital Medicine: When a Fever Gets Cross-Eyed

Ana G. Cristancho, MD, PhD, and Tara Wedin, MD

Patient Experience: Building a Patient-Centered Hospitalist Culture Suparna

Dutta, MD, MPH; Francis Fullam, MA; Jisu Kim, MD, MSc, FHM; Jill Wener, MD; Margaret McLaughlin, MD, and Amir K Jaffer, MD, MBA