Daniel Rauch, MD, Chair Elect of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Hospital Medicine and the Chair of the Academy Pediatric Association Special Interest Group on Hospital Medicine, talks about teaching in the hospital and the goal of making every hospital patient encounter a teaching opportunity.

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