A Nationwide Survey of Program Directors on Resident Attrition in Emergency Medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Despite the burdens that resident attrition places upon programs and fellow trainees, emergency medicine (EM) as a specialty has only begun to explore the issue. Our primary objectives were to quantify attrition in EM residency programs and elucidate the reasons behind it. Our secondary objectives were to describe demographic characteristics of residents undergoing attrition, personal factors associated with attrition, and methods of resident replacement.

Methods

We conducted a national survey study of all EM program directors (PDs) during the 2018-2019 academic year. PDs were asked to identify all residents who had left their program prior to completion of training within the last four academic years (2015-2016 to 2018-2019), provide relevant demographic inform

SUBMITTER: Mittelman A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7806332 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature