Barriers to Accessing Nighttime Supervisors: a National Survey of Internal Medicine Residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Single-center studies have reported residents experience barriers to accessing supervising physicians overnight, but no national dataset has described barriers perceived by residents or the association between supervision models and perceived barriers.

Objective

To explore residents' perception of barriers to accessing overnight supervision.

Design

Questions about overnight supervision and barriers to accessing it were included on the American College of Physicians Internal Medicine In-Training Examination® (IM-ITE®) Resident Survey in Fall 2017.

Participants

All US-based internal medicine residents who completed the 2017 IM-ITE®. Responses from 20,744 residents (84%) were analyzed.

Main measures

For our main outcome, we calculated percentages

SUBMITTER: Catalanotti JS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8298702 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature