Narrative Review of Clinical Productivity and Teaching in Emergency Medicine
Autor: | Matthew Zuckerman, Fawziah Alsalmi, Sophia Lin, Simiao Li-Sauerwine |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Rok vydání: | 2021 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
productivity media_common.quotation_subject medical training education Staffing 030204 cardiovascular system & hematology workload 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine emergency medicine medicine Quality (business) Productivity emergency medicine resident media_common Relative value business.industry General Engineering Workload Subject (documents) teaching Incentive Medical Education Emergency medicine business Inclusion (education) 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
Zdroj: | Cureus |
ISSN: | 2168-8184 |
Popis: | Emergency medicine educators are subject to external pressures to increase clinical productivity while maintaining quality teaching. Strategies to mitigate this perceived conflict include alterations in staffing and incentive compensation with educational value units. There is a paucity of information describing the effect of clinical demands on teaching metrics in emergency medicine. We performed a narrative review of the literature describing the relationship between clinical productivity and teaching evaluations of emergency medicine faculty and residents. We searched PubMed and Google Scholar for peer-reviewed articles describing emergency medicine clinical productivity metrics, teaching metrics, and the relationship between them. Seven articles met inclusion criteria. While most articles utilized relative value units (RVUs) per hour, other outcomes metrics were heterogeneous. Almost all studies utilized retrospective data and took place at academic teaching hospitals. Despite variability in statistical analysis, no studies found a relationship between clinical productivity and teaching metrics. Multiple articles identified characteristics of faculty that were associated with improved teaching metrics independent of clinical demands. The available literature does not support the concept that increased clinical productivity conflicts with quality teaching. A subset of faculty was identified who excelled at both. Next research steps should include developing shared standards for assessment of clinical productivity and educational quality that can be used to collect data at multiple sites at academic and community clinical settings; a secondary outcome includes measuring the effects of additional teaching attendings and educational value units. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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