Taweevat Assavapokee wins the Margaret Rock award for best poster at the SBM annual meeting!

Taweevat Assavapokee from Thailand was awarded the Margaret Rock prize for best poster at the Society of Bedside Medicine annual meeting on Friday, September 30, 2022. His poster demonstrated that the presence of B lines on lung ultrasound prior to discharge in patients with congestive heart failure predicts readmission at 6 months. Dr. Assavapokee recently published these results in BMC Cardiovascular Disorders.

The Society of Bedside Medicine is grateful for the continued support of the Rock family.

SBM Announces 2nd Class of Bedside Medicine Fellows

The SBM is thrilled to announce its second class of bedside medicine fellows! The 1-year Bedside Medicine Fellowship is funded by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins DOM Office of Education. Justin Choi (Cornell) will use a socio-cognitive approach to understand the influence of team dynamics, team-patient interactions, and racial/ethnic diversity on the bedside diagnostic process. Prathit Kulkarni (Baylor) will attempt to understand and optimize the process of telediagnosis in the evaluation of acute medical problems via telemedicine.

Congratulations to Justin and Prathit!

The application process for the 3rd round of SBM Bedside Fellows will be announced in Sept-Oct 2022!

Society Sponsors Work on Telemedicine During COVID-19

The Society of Bedside Medicine partnered with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to fund a Bedside Medicine Fellowship in the Time of COVID-19. Caitlin Hicks was the awardee of the fellowship and used the funding to explore telemedicine utilization by different racial, ethnic and socioeconomic groups during the pandemic.

Click here for a podcast about Caitlin’s work.

Click here for a newsletter and a link to an article in Health Affairs describing the results of the research.

Society Seeks International Board Member

The Society of Bedside Medicine is looking for an international member, specifically prioritizing a UK member, to join the board and maintain and strengthen our long-standing collaboration with our Institutional Member, the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

The Society of Bedside Medicine is a global community of physician educators dedicated to bedside teaching and improving communication, physical examination and diagnostic skills. The purpose of SBM is to foster a culture of bedside medicine through deliberate practice and teaching, and by encouraging innovation in education and research on the role of the clinical encounter in 21st century medicine.

The main purpose of the Society of Bedside Medicine Board of Directors is to provide advice about the direction the society should follow and to help increase awareness of and skills in bedside medicine. All members of the board are volunteers who are excited about improving the interaction of the patient and the medical provider at the bedside. Board members are expected to be dedicated to the mission of the organization, possessing the skills to govern the organization and representing the diversity of the community being served taking into account race, gender, economic status, age, subject matter expertise and other factors.

Being a member of the Board of the Society of Bedside Medicine provides you with a unique opportunity to increase awareness of and skills in bedside medicine and to collaborate with colleagues who share the same passion for bedside medicine as you.

The Board is meeting by Zoom every month for one hour, and once a year in person. Board members are expected to take an active part in recruiting new members, supporting the activities of the SBM, participating in lectures and workshops teaching the physical exam and in contributing to papers and research projects about physical exam and patient/physician interaction.

Planned timeline is as follows:

Applications (CV and personal statement) due before June 27, 2022

Review and invitation to meet with SBM board member before and/or during our July Board meeting on July 22, 2022 (at 11am PST)

Final decision and invitation to join the SBM board by August 1, 2022

Acceptance by August 15, 2022.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and to consider being a part of board of the Society of Bedside Medicine. If you are interested in joining the board, please send your CV and a letter of intent (no longer than 1 page) to the presidents of the board: Maja Artandi (martandi@stanford.edu) and Stephen Russell (swrussell@uabmc.edu).

SBM selects inaugural Bedside Medicine Fellows

The SBM is thrilled to announce its inaugural class of bedside medicine fellows! The 1-year Bedside Medicine Fellowship was funded by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins DOM Office of Education. Anderson Marshall (UAB) will create a POCUS curriculum for medical students and Megha Shankar (UCSD) will implement a reproductive justice workshop using the Presence 5 framework. The call for letters of intent for the 2022-2023 class of fellows is now open!

The Society of Bedside Medicine Responds to COVID-19

Members of the SBM have been leading the response against COVID-19 at their home institutions. Here is a sampling of SBM COVID-19-related activities:

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  • Stephen Russell, Brian Garibaldi and the Graduate Medical Education Laboratory (GEL) Team (Peabody's Paradox: Balancing Patient Care and Medical Education in a Pandemic - article in JGME)

  • LINK https://www.jgme.org/doi/full/10.4300/JGME-D-20-00251.1

June 18, 2020

Cardiology Auscultation Expert David Canfield Interviewed about Bedside Skills

David Canfield, the W. Proctor Harvey Teaching Professor at Georgetown University, was interviewed by SBM member Apurva Sharma during a recent Assessment of Physical Examination and Communication Skills (APECS) session at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Professor Canfield worked with Dr. Harvey for almost 40 years recording heart sounds and teaching cardiac auscultation.

Click here to see a transcript of the interview.

Professor Canfield conducting a bedside cardiac exam teaching session during APECS.

Professor Canfield conducting a bedside cardiac exam teaching session during APECS.

SBM Faculty Interviewed at MIRCIM Conference about the Physical Exam

Brian Garibaldi was interviewed at the MIRCIM conference in Poland in April 2019 about the physical exam.

Click on the links below to see excerpts from the interview.

Common Mistakes in the Physical Exam

Making the Diagnosis in Complex Patients

The Physical Exam During Cardiopulmonary Arrest

The Physical Exam in the ICU

The Importance of Assessments of Physical Exam Skills

Strategies to Avoid the "Hemolyzed" Physical Exam Response Published in JAMA Int Med

Stephen Russell and Brian Garibaldi published a reply to a JAMA Intern Med perspective on the “Hemolyzed Physical Examination.” In the reply, they propose 5 strategies to reinvigorate the practice of the physical examination.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2737505

Abraham Verghese joins Eric Topol to discuss Artificial Intelligence and Medicine

Abraham Verghese, the Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor at Stanford University, vice chair for the theory and practice of medicine, and director of Presence, discusses the intersection of artificial intelligence with the practice of medicine. Dr. Topol and Dr. Verghese are planning a monthly blog series entitled “Medicine and the Machine” on Medscape.

Society of Bedside Medicine Presents at ACP 2019!

The Society of Bedside Medicine hosted a series of 5 workshops on 21st Century Clinical Skills at the ACP 2019 meeting in Philadelphia. The workshops focused on ways to reinvigorate the practice of the physical exam including the use of the Five-Minute Moment as an effective teaching tool, and how to integrate point of care technology into the practice and teaching of the bedside exam.

The Society of Bedside Medicine Joins the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine

The SBM has joined the Coalition to Improve Diagnosis In Medicine. The Coalition is a collaboration of more than 40 leading healthcare organizations focused on ensuring that diagnoses are accurate, communicated and timely. 

The Society for Bedside Medicine brings a unique focus on the bedside encounter to the Coalition’s efforts to improve diagnosis. Please see the link above to learn more about the Coalition and it’s ongoing campaign.

Society of Bedside Medicine 2nd Annual Poster Session

The Society of Bedside Medicine held its second annual poster session at the Stanford 25 Bedside Medicine Symposium on September 7, 2018.

We are pleased to announce this year’s winner, Sus Kotwal (below left), from Johns Hopkins. His project incorporates real patient cases into an online simulation program to teach how to evaluate patients with dizziness. Yuvraj Singh Chowdhury from St. Peters University Hospital was a runner-up (below right), along with Nadia Bennett (not pictured) from the University of Pennsylvania. All three will receive a one-year membership to the Society of Bedside Medicine!

Thank you to all of our participants for making this our best poster session ever.