Pathway Curriculum
The Hospital Medicine Pathway (HMP) is designed to train outstanding resident clinicians with a passion for hospital medicine. In addition to the residency curriculum, our goal is to develop hospital system architects and leaders in quality improvement, patient safety, high-value care, and the business of medicine.
The HMP provides an enhancement to the core Wake Forest Baptist Health Internal Medicine education. The HMP is available to all Wake Forest Baptist Health Internal Medicine residents entering their second or third year, regardless of their future career plans. You will be part of a select group of residents from across the United States as there currently are only approximately 11 Hospital Medicine training pathways.
Those residents accepted to the HMP will have a unique learning opportunity through inpatient rotations, monthly lectures, mentorship and quarterly meetings with hospital medicine faculty and leadership. Additionally, each of our residents are provided resident memberships to our local Society of Hospital Medicine chapter. At the completion of the program, the residents will be prepared to be excellent leaders and educators in hospital medicine or the subspecialty that they choose.
Training Structure
There are two current pathways: a two-year and a one-year pathway. Interested residents are encouraged to join at the end of their first year for the two-year pathway or the end of their third year for the one-year pathway. These two options provide flexibility and time to those residents who are unsure of their future career plans at the end of their first year.
Those interested should contact the co-directors of the Hospital Medicine Training Pathway, Jacqueline Lippert, MD, or Chaudry Nasir Majeed, MBS, SFHM.
The core faculty of the HMP include WFBH Hospitalists Chi-Cheung Huang, MD, SFHM, FACP; William Lippert, MD, MPH; Suma Menon, MBBS; Sindhuja Marupudi, MBBS; and Padageshwar Sunkara, MD, MMCi, FACP, FHM.
This is for residents entering their second year.
Rotation highlights will include:
- Quality Improvement (QI) rotation – This rotation will involve basic education in QI methodology and an opportunity to work directly with QI teams at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
- Business of Medicine rotation – This rotation will offer an opportunity to shadow business leaders in various locations at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to have a better understanding of the drivers of hospital medicine
- Elective rotation – There are several elective opportunities that can be tailored to the residents interest
Additionally, residents in this pathway will also have the opportunity to be involved in educational experiences provided to the One-Year Pathway residents. This includes a core curriculum of monthly lectures delivered by various faculty members. Some of these lecture topics include:
- Professional development
- CV workshop, contract negotiations, mock interviews, etc.
- Practice of hospital medicine
- Hospital Medicine Practicum (General Medicine E service) focused on developing autonomy, efficiency, and caring for medically complex patients
- Healthcare Economics
- Coding and inpatient billing
- QI and Process Improvement
Lastly, each resident will be paired with a hospital medicine faculty mentor of their choice. These partnerships will help guide the mentee through the pathway and provide valuable insight into the inner workings of hospital medicine.
This is for residents entering their third year.
The core curriculum of this pathway will be presented in a monthly lecture series. Some of the topics for these lectures include:
Professional development
- CV workshop, contract negotiations, mock interviews, etc.
- Practice of hospital medicine
- Hospital Medicine Practicum (General Medicine E service) focused on developing autonomy, efficiency, and caring for medically complex patients
- Healthcare Economics
- Coding and inpatient billing
- QI and Process Improvement
In addition to the core lecture series, each resident will be paired with a hospital medicine faculty mentor of their choice. These partnerships will help guide the mentee through the pathway and provide valuable insight into the inner workings of hospital medicine.
Lastly, the pathway will also hold quarterly gatherings for journal clubs and dinner with hospital administrators.
Scholarly Activity
SHM Piedmont Chapter Poster Competition, November 2019
- First place: Christina Rindali - two-year pathway participant
- Second place: Leah Snipe - two-year pathway participant
- Third place: Mary Ashleigh Craver - two-year pathway participant
- Update in Hospital Medicine Conference Poster Competition, September 2019
- Sunkara P., Lippert W., Morris C., Huang C. Doing things right vs. doing the right things: A framework for a COVID-19 Person Under Investigation unit. The Hospitalist. April 2020