Written and Online Residency Guidebook to Improve Resident Efficiency and Knowledge of Best Patient Care Practices.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Residents at most institutions change rotations every 2 to 4 weeks. It often takes significant time for residents to become acclimated to the different protocols, expectations, and environments of each unique rotation. As a result, residents often spend time searching for answers, time that could be spent in outside learning and direct patient care. The goal of this resource is to provide a novel guidebook that improves residents' efficiency and knowledge of best patient care practices.

Methods

The guidebook begins with an introductory chapter with key contact information that can be filled in for the user's institution, which is followed by 16 rotation-specific chapters. A rotation-based approach was chosen as it focuses the content on the most pertinent inform

SUBMITTER: Ortiz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6464424 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature