Associations of Internal Medicine Residency Milestone Ratings and Certification Examination Scores With Patient Outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite its importance to medical education and competency assessment for internal medicine trainees, evidence about the relationship between physicians' milestone residency ratings or the American Board of Internal Medicine's initial certification examination and their hospitalized patients' outcomes is sparse.

Objective

To examine the association between physicians' milestone ratings and certification examination scores and hospital outcomes for their patients.

Design, setting, and participants

Retrospective cohort analyses of 6898 hospitalists completing training in 2016 to 2018 and caring for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries during hospitalizations in 2017 to 2019 at US hospitals.

Main outcomes and measures

Primary outcome measures included

SUBMITTER: Gray BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11074932 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature