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- Title
Hospitalist Involvement in Family Medicine Residency Training: A CERA Study.
- Authors
Baldor, Robert; Savageau, Judith A.; Shokar, Navkiran; Potts, Stacy; Gravel Jr., Joseph; Eisenstock, Kimberly; Ledwith, James
- Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Little is known about the im-pact of hospitalists on family medicine residencies. We surveyed family medicine residency directors to assess attitudes about hos-pitalists and their involvement in residency teaching. METHODS: Questions were included in the 2012 Council of Aca-demic Family Medicine Educational Research Alliance (CERA) sur-vey of family medicine residency directors. Univariate statistics were used to describe programs, directors, and our questions on the use of hospitalists. Bivariate statistics were used to examine relationships between the use of hospitalists to teach and pro-gram characteristics. RESULTS: Forty-one percent (n=175) of residency directors com-pleted the hospitalist section of the CERA survey. Sixty-six percent of residency programs were community based/university affiliat-ed. The majority of directors who have, or are planning to devel-op, a hospitalist service currently use an internal medicine service (92.5%), followed by family medicine (39.1%), pediatrics (35.4%), OB/laborists (18.0%), and combined services (8.7%). The major-ity of programs with a hospitalist training track (or plans to de-velop one) indicated that this was for a family medicine service. Sixty percent of programs that have a hospitalist service involve hospitalists in teaching. Twenty percent of directors reported that hospitalists serve as family medicine faculty, and 63% viewed them as "good educators." However, 85% reported no reduction in inpatient teaching by family medicine faculty despite using hospi-talist teaching services. CONCLUSIONS: Hospitalists have a significant educational role in family medicine resident training. Further research is needed to explore how hospitalists and family medicine faculty can col-laborate to promote enhanced efficiency and effectiveness as resi-dency teachers
- Publication
Family Medicine, 2014, Vol 46, Issue 2, p88
- ISSN
0742-3225
- Publication type
Article