Round Fast, Round Well with Dr. Michelle Kittleson

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Dr. Michelle Kittleson is the Director of Postgraduate Education in Heart Failure and Transplantation, Director of Heart Failure Research, and Professor of Medicine at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. She received her MD at Yale University School of Medicine followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and a fellowship in Cardiology at John Hopkins, where she also received a PhD in clinical investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Dr. Kittleson is also a guideline author: she was the chair of the writing group for the 2020 American Heart Association Scientific Statement on Cardiac Amyloidosis; she also co-authored the American College of Cardiology’s 2020 Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Guidelines and the American Heart Association’s 2022 Heart Failure Guidelines.
Learning Objectives:

By the end of this podcast, listeners should be able to:

1. Describe goals for rounds on a busy inpatient service.
2. Critique the common methods for priming trainees for optimal rounds.
3. Develop a technique for working with trainees at different levels of patient ownership, including the toddler, the waiter, and the captain.
4. Discuss the best times to add teaching points on rounds
5. Discuss the different ways to structure feedback on a busy inpatient team.

Dr. Kittleson's Textbook on patient care:

Mastering the Art of Patient Care 1st Edition. 2022. (Amazon Link)

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