Trainee-Physician Milestones Ratings and Patient Experience Surveys in Early Unsupervised Practice.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Milestones ratings have been used to assess resident physicians for more than a decade, but little is known as to whether there are posttraining implications of ratings for patient experiences.

Objective

To investigate the association of residents' Milestones ratings of professionalism and interpersonal and communication skills (ICS) with patient experience survey results in the first year of unsupervised practice.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study included physicians who completed residency training at Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited programs between July 1, 2015, and June 30, 2019, and subsequently worked at facilities that collected Clinician & Group-Consumer Assessments of Healthcare Provid

SUBMITTER: Chen JX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12509016 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature