Effects on Physician Practice After Exposure to a Patient-Centered Care Curriculum During Residency.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A novel patient-centered curricular experience was implemented in an internal medicine residency program in 2007. There is little published evidence that what is taught in residency affects practice after graduation.

Objective

We sought to evaluate whether graduates perceived any long-term effects of participation in this patient-centered curriculum.

Methods

From July to September 2015, a web-based survey with quantitative and qualitative components was sent to graduates of the program to assess self-reported effects of this curriculum on current practice. Graduates spent 2 to 8 weeks on the intervention team during their training. Responses to open-ended questions were independently coded by 2 investigators, using the editing analysis method. Emergent them

SUBMITTER: Christmas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7771592 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature