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Poonam Sharma

Poonam Sharma

Associate Professor of Medicine
Medicine, Hospital Medicine
poonam.sharma@duke.edu
3643 N Roxboro Rd, Durham, NC 27704
Dept of Medicine, Box 31180 DUMC, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Using Electronic Medical Record To Identify Changes In Inpatient Learner Experience.

Journal Article Brown J Hosp Med · 2023 BACKGROUND: COVID-19 has been disruptive to inpatient medical care. While changes in prevalence of inpatient diagnoses have been published, little has been published about the impact on learner exposure to various diagnoses. Such changes are likely impacte ... Full text Link to item Cite

Transparency in Admissions and Personalized Learning Through Resident Patient Selection.

Journal Article Ochsner J · 2022 Background: Adult learning (andragogy) posits that adult learners have an improved educational experience when engaged in self-directed learning. The decision to allocate patients to the teaching service vs a nonresident service varies according to institu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Development of a Community Hospital Medicine Affiliated Inpatient Rotation for Family Medicine Residents-A Collaborative Success.

Journal Article J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect · 2022 BACKGROUND: Hospitalists perform key roles as inpatient educators for family medicine residents. For the past decade, Duke University Family Medicine Residency Program had its inpatient family medicine resident rotation at non-Duke facilities. OBJECTIVE: T ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Impact of On-Site Hospital Medicine Curriculum on Preceptor Perception of Rotation.

Journal Article J Physician Assist Educ · September 2020 PURPOSE: To assess the feasibility of an on-site, case-based curriculum delivered by preceptors and to assess preceptors' perceptions of the impact of the curriculum on rotation performance and ability to teach. METHODS: Hospital medicine preceptors were s ... Full text Link to item Cite

Physician Assistant Student Training for the Inpatient Setting: A Needs Assessment.

Journal Article J Physician Assist Educ · December 2017 PURPOSE: The number of physician assistants (PAs) practicing hospital medicine is rapidly expanding. Little research has been done to determine which inpatient medicine rotation experiences are most helpful to prepare PA students for a career in inpatient ... Full text Link to item Cite

Type III Hypersensitivity Reaction to Subcutaneous Insulin Preparations in a Type 1 Diabetic.

Journal Article J Gen Intern Med · July 2017 Management of type 1 diabetes in patients who have insulin hypersensitivity is a clinical challenge and places patients at risk for recurrent diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Hypersensitivity reactions can be due to the patient's response to the insulin molecu ... Full text Link to item Cite

Doctor Who? A Quality Improvement Project to Assess and Improve Patients' Knowledge of Their Inpatient Physicians.

Journal Article J Grad Med Educ · May 2016 Background Patient-physician communication is an integral part of high-quality patient care and an expectation of the Clinical Learning Environment Review program. Objective This quality improvement initiative evaluated the impact of an educational audit a ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Physician awareness of patient cardiac telemetry monitoring

Journal Article Journal of Hospital Administration · April 5, 2016 Overuse of cardiac telemetry monitoring in the inpatient setting is widespread, contributes to alarm fatigue, and is costly for health systems. We sought to quantify the rates of provider unawareness of ongoing telemetry use and to quantify the rat ... Full text Cite

An evidence map of yoga for low back pain.

Journal Article Complement Ther Med · April 2016 OBJECTIVE: Yoga is being increasingly studied as a treatment strategy for a variety of different clinical conditions, including low back pain (LBP). We set out to conduct an evidence map of yoga for the treatment, prevention and recurrence of acute or chro ... Full text Link to item Cite

Evidence Map of Yoga for Depression, Anxiety, and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Journal Article J Phys Act Health · March 2016 BACKGROUND: This study describes evidence of yoga's effectiveness for depressive disorders, general anxiety disorder (GAD), panic disorder (PD), and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in adults. We also address adverse events associated with yoga. METHOD ... Full text Link to item Cite

Doctor Who? A Study of Patient Provider Awareness

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