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Does doctors’ workload impact supervision and ward activities of final-year students? A prospective study
BACKGROUND: Hospital doctors face constantly increasing workloads. Besides caring for patients, their duties also comprise the education of future colleagues. The aim of this study was to objectively investigate whether the workload arising from increased patient care interferes with student supervi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372449/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22540897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-12-24 |
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author | Celebi, Nora Tsouraki, Rodoula Engel, Corinna Holderried, Friederike Riessen, Reimer Weyrich, Peter |
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description | BACKGROUND: Hospital doctors face constantly increasing workloads. Besides caring for patients, their duties also comprise the education of future colleagues. The aim of this study was to objectively investigate whether the workload arising from increased patient care interferes with student supervision and is associated with more non-medical activities of final-year medical students. METHODS: A total of 54 final-year students were asked to keep a diary of their daily activities over a three-week period at the beginning of their internship in Internal Medicine. Students categorized their activities – both medical and non-medical - according to whether they had: (1) only watched, (2) assisted the ward resident, (3) performed the activity themselves under supervision of the ward resident, or (4) performed the activity without supervision. The activities reported on a particular day were matched with a ward specific workload-index derived from the hospital information system, including the number of patients treated on the corresponding ward on that day, a correction factor according to the patient comorbidity complexity level (PCCL), and the number of admissions and discharges. Both students and ward residents were blinded to the study question. RESULTS: A total of 32 diaries (59 %, 442 recorded working days) were handed back. Overall, the students reported 1.2 ± 1.3 supervised, 1.8 ±1.6 medical and 3.6 ± 1.7 non-medical activities per day. The more supervised activities were reported, the more the number of reported medical activities increased (p < .0001). No relationship between the ward specific workload and number of medical activities could be shown. CONCLUSIONS: There was a significant association between ward doctors’ supervision of students and the number of medical activities performed by medical students. The workload had no significant effect on supervision or the number of medical or non-medical activities of final-year students. |
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spelling | pubmed-33724492012-06-12 Does doctors’ workload impact supervision and ward activities of final-year students? A prospective study Celebi, Nora Tsouraki, Rodoula Engel, Corinna Holderried, Friederike Riessen, Reimer Weyrich, Peter BMC Med Educ Research Article BACKGROUND: Hospital doctors face constantly increasing workloads. Besides caring for patients, their duties also comprise the education of future colleagues. The aim of this study was to objectively investigate whether the workload arising from increased patient care interferes with student supervision and is associated with more non-medical activities of final-year medical students. METHODS: A total of 54 final-year students were asked to keep a diary of their daily activities over a three-week period at the beginning of their internship in Internal Medicine. Students categorized their activities – both medical and non-medical - according to whether they had: (1) only watched, (2) assisted the ward resident, (3) performed the activity themselves under supervision of the ward resident, or (4) performed the activity without supervision. The activities reported on a particular day were matched with a ward specific workload-index derived from the hospital information system, including the number of patients treated on the corresponding ward on that day, a correction factor according to the patient comorbidity complexity level (PCCL), and the number of admissions and discharges. Both students and ward residents were blinded to the study question. RESULTS: A total of 32 diaries (59 %, 442 recorded working days) were handed back. Overall, the students reported 1.2 ± 1.3 supervised, 1.8 ±1.6 medical and 3.6 ± 1.7 non-medical activities per day. The more supervised activities were reported, the more the number of reported medical activities increased (p < .0001). No relationship between the ward specific workload and number of medical activities could be shown. CONCLUSIONS: There was a significant association between ward doctors’ supervision of students and the number of medical activities performed by medical students. The workload had no significant effect on supervision or the number of medical or non-medical activities of final-year students. BioMed Central 2012-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC3372449/ /pubmed/22540897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-12-24 Text en Copyright ©2012 Celebi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Celebi, Nora Tsouraki, Rodoula Engel, Corinna Holderried, Friederike Riessen, Reimer Weyrich, Peter Does doctors’ workload impact supervision and ward activities of final-year students? A prospective study |
title | Does doctors’ workload impact supervision and ward activities of final-year students? A prospective study |
title_full | Does doctors’ workload impact supervision and ward activities of final-year students? A prospective study |
title_fullStr | Does doctors’ workload impact supervision and ward activities of final-year students? A prospective study |
title_full_unstemmed | Does doctors’ workload impact supervision and ward activities of final-year students? A prospective study |
title_short | Does doctors’ workload impact supervision and ward activities of final-year students? A prospective study |
title_sort | does doctors’ workload impact supervision and ward activities of final-year students? a prospective study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372449/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22540897 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6920-12-24 |
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