What is it about?
This study looks at the relationship of the workload of hospital based physicians (hospitalists) in a teaching program and the ratings of how well they teach. This study shows that the physicians who see more patients have lower teaching ratings than physicians who see fewer patients.
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Why is it important?
This is important because it suggests that high workload situations are not good for teaching quality. Teaching services could consider designing staffing models that limit the workload of teaching physicians to maximize the educational value of their work.
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This page is a summary of: Hospitalist workload influences faculty evaluations by internal medicine clerkship students, Advances in Medical Education and Practice, February 2015, Dove Medical Press,
DOI: 10.2147/amep.s77216.
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