The practice patterns of recently graduated internal medicine-pediatric hospitalists.

Objectives: To identify the current practice patterns and professional activities of internal medicine-pediatrics (med-peds) hospitalists who have graduated in the past 5 years (June 2009-June 2013).

Methods: The national Medicine-Pediatrics Program Directors Association (MPPDA) conducted a cross-sectional survey study of the 79 residency program directors who are members of the MPPDA regarding the practice patterns of recent graduates (from 2009-2013) currently practicing as hospitalists. The survey was distributed in the spring of 2014 on the MPPDA listserv.

Do women residents delay childbearing due to perceived career threats?

Purpose: To assess gender differences among residents regarding their plans to have children during residency and determine the most influential reasons for these differences.

Method: Using the Health Belief Model as a framework, the authors created an instrument to survey 424 residents from 11 residency programs at three academic medical institutions about their intentions to have children during residency. The authors developed a scale to assess the perceived career threats of having children during residency, evaluated its psychometric properties, and calculated the effect of the mediators.