Scribes with PGY-1 Residents on Inpatient Medicine Teams: Effect on Time Spent in Meaningful Work.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The high documentation demands and limited time in direct patient care in the first year of internal medicine residency represent concerns for burnout and low job satisfaction in this important year of training.

Objective

To assess the effect of scribes on the time PGY-1 residents spent on various work tasks.

Methods

Participants were 24 PGY-1 internal medicine residents on two inpatient medicine teams at one site for 6 months (September 2019-February 2020). Residents were assigned a scribe during the first or second 2 weeks of a 4-week rotation and had no scribe for the other 2 weeks. Time study observers documented resident work activities. Residents ranked the meaningfulness of work activities via survey at the end of each 2-week period.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Hartman-Hall H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9924628 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature