Patient Experience With Resident Versus Staff Physicians: Results From a Cross-Sectional Patient Survey From Canadian Family Medicine Residencies

CONCLUSIONS: In our setting, patients who reported usually seeing resident physicians had worse continuity of care and timeliness for nonurgent care than patients who reported usually seeing staff physicians despite resident patients being older, sicker, and having a lower socioeconomic position. Postgraduate training programs need to test models to support access and continuity for resident patient panels.PMID:38652844 | DOI:10.22454/FamMed.2024.729822

Source: Family Medicine - April 23, 2024 Category: Primary Care Authors: Sean Doherty Payal Agarwal Ri Wang Christopher Meaney Kirsten Eldridge Ali N Damji Debbie Elman Susanna Fung Karuna L Gupta Sakina Walji Linda Weber Melissa Witty Tara Kiran Source Type: research