Articles: emergency-medicine.
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Physician service time varies with patient service category, length of stay, and intensity of service. ⋯ Case mix of patient services affects emergency physician workload and should be considered in planning departmental staffing needs.
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Pediatric emergency care · Jun 1993
Pediatric education in emergency medicine residency programs--10 years later.
The purpose of this study is to examine the changes in the pediatric emergency medicine education of emergency medicine (EM) residents over the last decade. Questionnaires were mailed to the training directors of all EM residency programs. Sixty-five programs (79%) responded. ⋯ Most physicians in charge of pediatric emergency medicine education are emergency medicine trained (75% vs 29% in 1981), and only 12% are pediatric emergency medicine fellowship trained. Despite several improvements and the increased satisfaction of program directors, the pediatric component of EM residents' training continues to be disproportionate to the number of children in the emergency medicine patient population. Specialists in pediatric emergency medicine should strive to play a more significant role in the pediatric education of EM residents.