Educational Benefits of Allowing Pediatrician Supervision of Emergency Medicine Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

According to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education emergency medicine (EM) program requirements, EM residents on EM rotations must be supervised by board-certified/board-prepared EM or pediatric EM (PEM) faculty.

Objective

We sought to understand the effect of allowing EM residents to be supervised by attending pediatricians while caring for pediatric urgent care patients.

Methods

The EM residents were permitted to staff pediatric urgent care patients with either an EM/PEM attending or an attending pediatrician from August 2017 to July 2018. Outcomes were assessed through resident focus groups, a mixed-methods survey of EM residents and EM/PEM/pediatrician attendings, and clinical outcomes, including length of stay, best evidence/clinical

SUBMITTER: Rustici MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7161330 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature