Physician Satisfaction With Lactation Resources Following an Intervention to Improve Lactation Accommodations.

Importance: Physicians who attempt to continue breastfeeding after returning from childbearing leave identify numerous obstacles at work, which may affect job satisfaction, retention, and the diversity of the physician workforce.

Objective: To study the association between improved lactation accommodation support and physician satisfaction.

Design, Setting, And Participants: This cohort study compared the physician experience before and after a July 2020 intervention to improve physician lactation accommodation support at a large, urban, academic health system.

The Impact of Patient-Physician Racial and Gender Concordance on Patient Satisfaction with Outpatient Clinic Visits.

Background: Patient and provider race and gender concordance (patient and physician identify as the same race/ethnicity or gender) may impact patient experience and satisfaction.

Objective: We sought to examine how patient and physician racial and gender concordance effect patient satisfaction with outpatient clinical encounters. Furthermore, we examined factors that changed satisfaction among concordant and discordant dyads.

Bridging racial differences in the clinical encounter: How implicit bias and stereotype threat contribute to health care disparities in the dermatology clinic.

Background: Positive interactions that build good relationships between patients and providers demonstrate improved health outcomes for patients. Yet, racial minority patients may not be on an equal footing in having positive interactions. Stereotype threat and implicit bias in clinical medicine negatively affect the quality of care that racial minorities receive.

A randomized controlled trial of the impact of a teaching procedure service on the training of internal medicine residents.

Introduction: Academic medical centers must provide safe inpatient procedures while balancing resident autonomy and education. We performed a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate the effect of a 2-week hospitalist procedure service (HPS) rotation on interns' self-perceived procedure ability, knowledge, and autonomy versus the standard curriculum.

Methods: We randomly selected 16 of 57 internal medicine interns (28%) to participate in the intervention group rotation, with 29 interns in the control group.

Patient satisfaction with a hospitalist procedure service: is bedside procedure teaching reassuring to patients?

Background: In recent years, hospital medicine programs have adopted "procedure teams" that supervise residents in performing invasive bedside procedures. The effect of procedure teams on patient satisfaction is unknown.

Objective: We sought to measure patient satisfaction with procedures performed by a hospitalist-supervised, intern-based procedure service (HPS) with a focus on patient perception of bedside communication.

Validation of a self-efficacy instrument and its relationship to performance of crisis resource management skills.

Self-efficacy is thought to be important for resuscitation proficiency in that it influences the development of and access to the associated medical knowledge, procedural skills and crisis resource management (CRM) skills. Since performance assessment of CRM skills is challenging, self-efficacy is often used as a measure of competence in this area. While self-efficacy may influence performance, the true relationship between self-efficacy and performance in this setting has not been delineated.