Medical education on inpatient medical oncology service before and after oncology hospitalist program.

ABSTRACT:

Background

At Smilow Cancer Hospital, internal medicine-boarded oncology hospitalists assumed primary team attending responsibilities on an adult inpatient medical oncology academic service beginning in 2021. Medical oncology faculty transitioned from primary team attending to consulting physicians but remained engaged in daily morning teaching and twice-weekly formal afternoon didactics. The aim of this study was to compare the educational experiences of internal medicine residents before and after implementation of the oncology hospitalist program.

Methods

Yale School of Medicine internal medicine residents receive MedHub surveys following the inpatient oncology rotation. Surveys completed before July 2021 were compared to those after July 2022, when oncology hospitalists

SUBMITTER: Chow R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12539143 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature