Internal Medicine Residents’ Perceived Responsibility for Patients at Hospital Discharge: A National Survey
Journal of General Internal MedicinePublished 14 September 2016Open access
Eric W. Young, Chad Stickrath, Monica McNulty, Aaron J. Calderon, Elizabeth N. Chapman, Jed D. Gonzalo
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Neither the duration nor the content of residents’ perceived responsibility was consistently associated with level of training, program type, career path, or burnout, suggesting there may be unmeasured factors such as professional role modeling that shape these perceptions.
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Internal medicine residents demonstrate variability in perceived duration of responsibility for recently discharged patients. Neither the duration nor the content of residents' perceived responsibility was consistently associated with level of training, program type, career path, or burnout, suggesting there may be unmeasured factors such as professional role modeling that shape these perceptions.
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