Development and Evaluation of a Newborn Care Curriculum for Pediatric Hospitalists

Background: The Society of Hospital Medicine Pediatric Hospitalist Medicine Core Competencies include newborn care and delivery room management. In a needs assessment completed in 2014, pediatric hospitalists demonstrated varying levels of confidence on different newborn medicine topics and expressed interest in receiving more education on a majority of these topics. Additionally, 94% of responders preferred computer based modules as the modality to receive more …