A nationwide survey of emergency medicine resident workflow efficiency: Are training programs teaching residents to be efficient?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Workflow efficiency (WFE) is essential to the practice of emergency medicine (EM), but a standardized approach to measuring and teaching it during residency is lacking. In this study we sought to describe how EM residency programs in the United States currently measure and teach WFE and to assess the relative importance of WFE teaching to EM residency program leaders.

Methods

We conducted a cross-sectional survey of all accredited EM residency training programs in the United States in Fall 2019. We invited all allopathic EM residency programs to participate in the study by directly emailing program directors and assistant/associate program directors. We conducted the study and performed descriptive statistics using SurveyMonkey software.

Results

We received

SUBMITTER: Carmelli G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8087539 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature