Effects of a focused patient-centered care curriculum on the experiences of internal medicine residents and their patients.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Traditional residency training may not promote competencies in patient-centered care. AIM:To improve residents' competencies in delivering patient-centered care. SETTING/PARTICIPANTS:Internal medicine residents at a university-based teaching hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION:One inpatient team admitted half the usual census and was exposed to a multi-modal patient-centered care curriculum to promote knowledge of patients as individuals, improve patient transitions of care, and reduce barriers to medication adherence. PROGRAM EVALUATION:Annual resident surveys (N?=?40) revealed that the intervention was judged as professionally valuable (90%) and important to their training (90%) and offered experiences not available during other rotations (88%). Compared to standard inpatient rotation evaluations (n?=?163), intervention rotation evaluations (n?=?51) showed no differences in ratings for traditional medical learning, but higher ratings for improving how housestaff address patient medication adherence, communicate with patients about post-hospital transition of care, and know their patients as people (all p?

SUBMITTER: Ratanawongsa N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3304041 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature