Assessment of Inpatient Time Allocation Among First-Year Internal Medicine Residents Using Time-Motion Observations.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The United States spends more than $12 billion annually on graduate medical education. Understanding how residents balance patient care and educational activities may provide insights into how the modern physician workforce is being trained.

Objective

To describe how first-year internal medicine residents (interns) allocate time while working on general medicine inpatient services.

Design, setting, and participants

Direct observational secondary analysis, including 6 US university-affiliated and community-based internal medicine programs in the mid-Atlantic region, of the Comparative Effectiveness of Models Optimizing Patient Safety and Resident Education (iCOMPARE) trial, a cluster-randomized trial comparing different duty-hour policies. A total of 194 wee

SUBMITTER: Chaiyachati KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8462976 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature