PGY-2 emergency medicine residents are more efficient when paired with an early clinical medical student.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

There is a concern that provide increased extraneous cognitive load when paired with residents on shift. However, this may be offset by the decrease in extraneous load they may provide to the residents they are paired with by offloading basic patient care tasks. We hypothesized that these forces may not be balanced.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective observational analysis of PGY-2 emergency medicine residents and junior medical students at a single academic emergency department (ED) in the Midwest. A series of efficiency metrics (relative value unit [RVUs], patients per hour [PPH], time to note completion, and resident assignment to disposition [RATD]) as well as one quality metric (number of return ED visits; "bouncebacks") were compared for resident shifts in

SUBMITTER: Liang N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11449807 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature