A Comparison of National Pediatric Procedures Training Guidelines With Actual Clinical Practice in Ohio.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and Pediatrics Review Committee (RC) recommends the clinical procedures residents should master during their training. These guidelines may be partially based on consensus opinion or tradition rather than actual need. The literature defining which procedures general pediatricians actually perform in practice is limited.

Objective

Our objective was to determine how often general pediatricians perform procedures recommended by accreditation bodies, how well prepared they feel to perform them, and how important the procedures are to their practice.

Methods

We categorized recommended procedures as emergent, urgent, or office-based, then developed and administered a survey in 2017 based on these cl

SUBMITTER: Iyer MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6476089 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature