New project aims to improve patient safety and antibiotic stewardship in diagnosis 
Valerie Vaughn | 12/4/2019

Dr. Valerie Vaughn today was awarded a grant from the Moore Foundation in support of her new project, "Closing the loop: Improving care coordination towards early disease detection." Dr. Vaughn's project aims to "develop a quality measure to determine if evidence based recommendations are met for incidental radiology findings."

Health care workers wanted: A veteran needs you to work at a VA hospital
Sanjay Saint | 11/11/2019

This Veterans Day, Dr. Sanjay Saint wrote about a need in the VA healthcare system: YOU.

In order to continue providing top-notch care for our Veterans, we need more clinicians and more researchers.

​On this Veterans Day, please take a moment to read this wonderful piece.

Dr. Chopra Awarded the MICHR Distinguished Mentor Award, 2019
Vineet Chopra | 11/8/2019

Dr. Chopra was awarded the 2019 Distinguished Mentor Award by MICHR!

Please join us in congratulating him!

Michigan Medicine's Vineet Chopra, Esteemed Research Mentor, Facilitates Medical Partnerships in India
Vineet Chopra | 08/26/2019

Wonderful writeup at the Center for South Asian Studies on Dr. Chopra.
"What I’ve enjoyed most about this journey is linking people at Michigan with outstanding clinicians and researchers in India who have similar and complementary interests. We’ve done this at every level, connecting faculty, students, and residents."

Fewer health care-associated infections with all private rooms
Lona Mody | 08/22/2019

Dr. Mody spoke to M.D./alert, commenting on a paper from McGill University, published in JAMA Internal Medicine.
"[R]educing antimicrobial resistance is just one of the many reasons to modernize our healthcare facilities."

Leadership in Academic Medicine at USF Internal Medicine Residency
Sanjay Saint | 08/20/2019

Dr. Saint spoke to residents at the University of South Florida Medical Leaders Program, introducing them to the concepts behind "Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders."

Grab your own copy at Amazon today!

Patient and physician hygiene go hand in hand
Lona Mody | 07/26/2019

Dr. Mody spoke to ACP Hospitalist in this recent piece regarding her paper published in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

How can we become better mentors & mentees?
Madhukar Pai | 07/13/2019

Looking for a quick intro to the new book The Mentoring Guide from Drs. Vineet Chopra, Valerie Vaughn, and Sanjay Saint? Look no further than this great blog post, then!

If the post has you convinced, come back here and grab your copy at Amazon!

Pneumonia Patients Get Too Many Antibiotics – Especially Leaving the Hospital
Valerie Vaughn | 07/08/2019

Two-thirds of pneumonia patients at 43 Michigan hospitals get antibiotic prescriptions that are too long, most written as part of the discharge process. Is this an opportunity to intervene?

Dr. Valerie Vaughn (right, discussing the paper) leads an all-star team as first author on a paper recently published in Annals of Internal Medicine - available here - and IHPI News has a great writeup about it.

Read more at IHPI!

June 2019 Journal of Hospital Medicine Twitter Chat #JHMChat
PSEP | 06/24/2019

Tonight we had a great Twitter chat hosted by the Society of Hospital Medicine. We were talking about leadership and professional development, which led directly to chatting about the books PSEP members Dr. Sanjay Saint and Dr. Vineet Chopra recently published: Thirty Rules for Healthcare Leaders and The Mentoring Guide!

If you missed out, be sure to check the transcript here.

PSEP Faculty Receives MICHR Award
Vineet Chopra | 06/14/2019

It's award season here at PSEP! Dr. Vineet Chopra was awarded the Distinguished Clinical and Translational Research Mentor Award from MICHR today for his many contributions to the field of mentoring.

​Congratulations, Vineet!!

PSEP Faculty Receives Distinguished Scientist Award from VA
Sarah Krein | 06/05/2019

Dr. Sarah Krein will be awarded the Distinguished Scientist Award from APIC at this year's annual conference.

​Congratulations, Sarah!!

Physician Attire in Ophthalmology: Patients prefer the white coat!
PSEP | 06/03/2019

Working on a theme, here, but the preferences of patients in ophthalmology practices mirror those of others in terms of physician attire. The article is out in the Journal of Academic Ophthalmology, but here is the visual abstract.

Physician Attire in Europe: Patients prefer the white coat!
PSEP | 05/23/2019

The physician attire preferences of patients were surveyed at University Hospital Zürich and published in BMJ Open. The visual abstract for the paper is below! Click for a full-size version...

What Superbug Hunters Know That We Don't
PSEP | The New York Times | 05/20/2019

One of our papers made it to the New York Times Opinion page in this article.

Minding the gap: Rethinking implementation of antimicrobial stewardship in India
Payal Patel | 05/14/2019

By conservative estimates, 700,000 deaths this year will be attributable globally to antimicrobial-resistant bacteria, and this number will rise to 10 million deaths by 2050 if trends in antimicrobial resistance do not change. Reversing trends in antimicrobial resistance could have the biggest impact in India, which has the highest infectious disease burden in the world. Dr. Payal Patel discusses the details in this commentary in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

The Saint-Chopra Guide to Inpatient Medicine - New Website!
Saint & Chopra | 02/27/2019

The Saint-Chopra Guide to Inpatient Medicine - the new update to the acclaimed Saint-Frances Guide - is the definitive practical manual for learning and practicing inpatient medicine. It features end-to-end coverage of this medical specialty, with a special focus on common patient conditions and best practices for treatment.

Visit the new website for more information!

Many doctors prescribing riskier antibiotics on hospital discharge - when safer ones would do
​Valerie Vaughn | 02/13/2019

A new University of Michigan study finds that doctors frequently send discharged patients home with a prescription for risky antibiotics. That's even when the patients were taking less risky antibiotics in the hospital.