Perception of Medical Student Mistreatment: Does Specialty Matter?

Purpose: Medical student mistreatment is pervasive, yet whether all physicians have a shared understanding of the problem is unclear. The authors presented professionally designed trigger videos to physicians from 6 different specialties to determine if they perceive mistreatment and its severity similarly.

Method: From October 2016 to August 2018, resident and attending physicians from 10 U.

Effect of a patient care partnership project on cost and quality of care at an academic teaching hospital.

Background: In 1998, the Patient Care Partnership Project was conducted by general internal medicine physicians and hospital administration in an academic health care center. The project was designed to optimize cost, quality, and service results to inpatients.

Methods: The project focused on improved communication among physicians, a nurse discharge planner, and hospital administration regarding appropriate resource utilization.