Supervision and autonomy of ophthalmology residents in the outpatient clinic in the United States II: a survey of senior residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A balance between autonomy and supervision can be difficult to obtain in medical education. In this study, we sought to determine whether the presence and level of supervision of ophthalmology resident outpatient clinic correlates with metrics of resident success, professionalism and stress.

Methods

A survey was emailed to all US ophthalmology program directors requesting it be forwarded to PGY4 residents. Questions included whether their program provided a resident-hosted outpatient clinic, and if so, whether residents were mandated to discuss every patient with faculty. Residents were assigned to three categories based on this question (0: no clinic, 1: mandated faculty input, 2: discretionary faculty input). Success metrics included numbers of manuscripts submi

SUBMITTER: Singman EL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6567568 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature