Changes in Stress and Workplace Shortages Reported by U.S. Critical Care Physicians Treating Coronavirus Disease 2019 Patients.

Objectives: Eleven months into the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the country faces accelerating rates of infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Little is known about the experiences of critical care physicians caring for the sickest coronavirus disease 2019 patients. Our goal is to understand how high stress levels and shortages faced by these physicians during Spring 2020 have evolved.

The Role of Gender in the Experience and Impact of Recertification Exam Preparation: A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Physicians.

Little is known about how physicians experience preparing for board recertification examinations. As women make up a growing proportion of the primary care physician workforce, we aimed to explore how primary care physicians experience the personal and professional impacts of recertification examination preparation activities, and whether these impacts differ by gender. We conducted exploratory qualitative semistructured interviews with 80 primary care physicians, who had recently taken either the American Board of Family Medicine or American Board of Internal Medicine recertification examination and who practice outpatient care.

"That Was Pretty Powerful": a Qualitative Study of What Physicians Learn When Preparing for Their Maintenance-of-Certification Exams.

Background: A key component of Maintenance of Certification (MOC) for family and internal medicine physicians is the requirement to pass a periodic examination of medical knowledge. Little is known about the effects of preparing for MOC exams on knowledge and practice.

Objective: To understand how MOC exam preparation can affect knowledge and practice.

How Physicians Prepare for Maintenance of Certification Exams: A Qualitative Study.

Purpose: Little is known about how board-certified physicians prepare for their periodic maintenance of certification (MOC) examinations. This qualitative study explores how physicians experience MOC exam preparation: how they prepare for the exams and decide what to study and how exam preparation compares with what they normally do to keep their medical knowledge current.

Method: Between September 2016 and March 2017, the authors interviewed 80 primary care physicians who had recently taken either the American Board of Family Medicine or American Board of Internal Medicine MOC exam.

The intersection of professionalism and interprofessional care: development and initial testing of the interprofessional professionalism assessment (IPA).

Valid assessment of interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) is challenging. The number of instruments that measure various aspects of IPECP, or in various sites is growing, however. The Interprofessional Professionalism Assessment (IPA) measures observable behaviors of health care professionals-in-training that demonstrate professionalism and collaboration when working with other health care providers in the context of people-centered care.