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by Melissa G. Cossey (Editor), Lauren K. Gambill (Editor)
This educational guide provides a much-needed subspeciality-specific learning resource for pediatric hospital medicine. Featuring 50 of the most commonly presenting topics encountered by pediatric hospitalists, this book brings readers into the morning meeting and walks them through patient presentation, diagnosis, treatment, and resolution, providing realistic examples in an engaging case-based format.
This book is designed to supplement the educational experience of trainees during their inpatient pediatrics rotation, and its versatility allows it to be used as an educational guide to lead learning sessions or as an individual resource or study guide. Each chapter dives into an individual case that is titled with a fictitious patient name, often related to the case topic, which provides a helpful memory tool for learners. Each case includes a Documentation Tips section, designed to ensure accurate and clear communication across the interdisciplinary team that cares for hospitalized children, as well as Clinical Pearls summarizing the main chapter take-aways. Back to Basics boxes are included in cases as needed, to serve as a refresher of examination techniques, laboratory test result analysis, or other foundational information related to the cases. In addition, Health Equity Focus boxes related to social determinants of health are featured throughout the book to help clinicians recognize and address potential inequities in care.Author Biography
Melissa Cossey, MD, FAAP, is a pediatric hospitalist at Dell Children's Medical Center and the associate chief medical officer of the Dell Children's North Campus, as well as an assistant professor of pediatrics at UT Austin's Dell Medical School. Dr Cossey has completed a fellowship in medical education and is the educational director of the pediatric, transitional year, family medicine, and psychiatry residents' pediatric hospital medicine rotations. Dr Cossey has led many hospital-based QI initiatives and was recently honored as a Dell Medical School "Patient Safety Teaching Champion."
