A New Opportunity to Reduce Resident Burnout: Young Doctors Are AI Natives
Residents embrace AI for everything from clinical decisions to emotional support. Health systems need to meet them where they are.
Residents embrace AI for everything from clinical decisions to emotional support. Health systems need to meet them where they are.
Foreign doctors provide a vital lifeline for healthcare in the United States. About a quarter of doctors in the country were born abroad.
One study found that first-year residents in internal medicine spent 5-7 hours a day — about 40 minutes per patient — reading and entering data into EHRs. Another article urged healthcare executives to pay attention to physician complaints about EHR usability.
The New England Journal of Medicine study comes as the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is reassessing requirements that prevent residents from working extremely long stretches or back-to-back shifts.
A student “depicted his supervising physician screaming at the medical team, causing one intern to urinate herself moments before having her head bitten off for possessing too little information about a patient.”
In general, medical residents really like what they do, though there is significant variation by state and medical specialty, according to newly released data from physician social network Doximity.
Enterprise EHR boosts scalability, interoperability, and governance for large healthcare systems.
New research demonstrates the benefit of having medical residents present for surgeries.