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Start ‘em early: Documentation training for physician residents

“When I first started getting interested in the topic of CDI, […] I asked my more senior colleagues and got blank stares,” says Joseph A. Cristiano, MD, an assistant professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest Baptist Health in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Without the medical school faculty understanding CDI in the first place, there’s no way to pass the information along to the residents.

 

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