Fulfilling outpatient medicine responsibilities during internal medicine residency: a quantitative study of housestaff participation with between visit tasks
BMC Medical EducationPublished 9 May 2016Open access
Jason Hom, Ilana B. Richman, Jonathan H. Chen, Baldeep Singh, Casey Crump, Jeffrey Chi
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The results reinforce the need to continue development and study of innovative systems for coverage of “between visit” responsibilities, including shared Coverage models among multiple residents and shared coverage models between residents and clinic attendings.
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Our study quantitatively highlights the difficulty of attending to outpatient responsibilities during busy core inpatient rotations, which comprise the bulk of residency at our institution and at others. Our results reinforce the need to continue development and study of innovative systems for coverage of "between visit" responsibilities, including shared coverage models among multiple residents and shared coverage models between residents and clinic attendings, both of which require a balance between clinic efficiency and resident ownership, autonomy and learning.
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