Relationship between resident workload and self-perceived learning on inpatient medicine wards: a longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite recent residency workload and hour limitations, little research on the relationship between workload and learning has been done. We sought to define residents' perceptions of the optimal patient workload for learning, and to determine how certain variables contribute to those perceptions. Our hypothesis was that the relationship between perceived workload and learning has a maximum point (forming a parabolic curve): that either too many or too few patients results in sub-optimal learning.

Methods

Residents on inpatient services at two academic teaching hospitals reported their team and individual patient censuses, and rated their perception of their learning; the patient acuity; case variety; and how challenged they felt. To estimate maximum learning score

SUBMITTER: Haney EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC1550230 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature