The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association
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J Am Osteopath Assoc · Jun 2003
Emergency medicine resident work productivity and procedural accomplishment.
The purpose of this study was to assess procedural accomplishment, work productivity, and efficiency for emergency medicine residents in a community-based, osteopathic emergency medicine residency. These data are compared with limited existing data from other training sites. The authors conducted a retrospective analysis of patient-encounter data logged into a computerized main-frame database over 8 years by 19 resident physicians. ⋯ Residents in this program get significant experience in some procedures but little or no clinical exposure to other procedures. These results are consistent with the few other published reports attempting to quantify the emergency medicine resident experience. The data may assist in setting clinical objectives and establishing uniform tracking systems and coding terminology.