Publications by authors named "Kristin D Maletsky"
Objective: The Family Bridge Program was developed at a single pediatric hospital to improve outcomes for hospitalized children from families of color, who are low income, or who speak a language other than English. The program uses a family navigator ("Guide") that supports families via 6 service domains: Language Access, Orientation to the Hospital, Communication Preferences and Coaching, Addressing Unmet Social Needs, Supportive Check-Ins, and Discharge Follow-Up. This study describes an analysis to translate the program to a second pediatric hospital.
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- Scientific writing is crucial in hospital medicine but hard to pursue due to the demanding clinical environment, prompting the need for focused writing retreats.
- A 3-day, 2-night retreat program was designed with structured writing sessions, breaks, and feedback opportunities, receiving positive evaluations from participants.
- The retreats resulted in significant writing progress, with many papers accepted or under review, highlighting the program's effectiveness in fostering academic collaboration and productivity.
Pediatric Intersession: An Upfront Flipped-Classroom Curriculum to Promote Pediatric Clerkship Readiness.
J Med Educ Curric Dev
February 2024
Objectives: Best practices for content selection, mode of delivery, and timing of pediatric clerkship readiness curricula for medical students have, by and large, not been established. Capitalizing on changes in structure of the clinical clerkships during the COVID-19 pandemic, we created an upfront clerkship readiness curriculum, termed Pediatric Intersession (PI), to replace the existing weekly lecture-based clerkship didactics.
Methods: Our goal was to develop an interactive curriculum with innovative instructional design methodology intended to promote broad foundational pediatric knowledge and clerkship preparedness using case-based learning.
Objectives: Individuals who prefer to communicate about health care in a language other than English (LOE) experience poorer quality medical care and challenges when communicating with health care providers. The objective of this study was to elucidate how caregivers who prefer an LOE perceive communication with their physicians on an inpatient general pediatrics service.
Methods: Caregivers of patients admitted to the general pediatrics service at our urban freestanding children's hospital whose preferred language for medical care was Spanish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, or Mandarin were eligible for this qualitative study.