Publications by authors named "Pamela Carpenter"
Purpose: This study explores the mental health and well-being, overall job satisfaction, likelihood to leave position, and perceptions of job satisfiers and stressors and dissatisfiers in a national sample of program and institutional coordinators in graduate medical education (GME).
Method: Between August and September 2022, 11,887 program and institutional coordinators and managers with email addresses listed in the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education database were emailed a survey link. The survey queried mental health using the Patient Health Questionnaire 8 depression scale, Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7, and a 2-item burnout scale derived from the Maslach Burnout Inventory; overall satisfaction with work; likelihood to leave work; and drivers of satisfaction and dissatisfaction.
Objective: Despite incremental increases in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) health education, there are no uniform training requirements in graduate medical education and the extent to which pediatrics residency programs incorporate LGBTQ+ curricula remains unknown. We aimed to assess the current state of LGBTQ+ health education in pediatrics residency programs.
Methods: We surveyed all 202 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited categorical pediatrics program directors (PDs) in the United States.
Purpose: To describe the current state of telemedicine within pediatric training programs to inform development of a national telemedicine training curriculum for pediatric trainees.
Methods: We conducted an anonymous cross-sectional survey of pediatric residency (Fall 2020) and fellowship program directors (Spring 2021) on their current telemedicine practices in pediatric post-graduate training.
Results: Forty-eight US pediatric residency programs (n = 48/198, 24%) and 422 fellowship programs completed the survey (n = 422/872, 48%); combined response rate 44% (n = 470/1070).
Objectives: Duty hour restrictions limit the use of resident physicians in pediatric emergency departments (PEDs). We sought to determine the relative clinical productivity of PED attending physicians working with residents compared with PED attending physicians working with nurse practitioners (NPs).
Methods: In a tertiary care PED with multiple care models (PED attending physicians with residents and/or fellows, PED attending physicians with NPs, PED attending physicians alone), we identified periods when care was provided concurrently and exclusively by a PED attending physician with 1 to 2 residents (resident pod) and a PED attending physician with 1 NP (NP pod).