Importance Physicians' knowledge about each other's quality is central to clinical decision-
making, but such information is not well understood and is rarely harnessed to identify …

Background Outpatient primary care experience is vital to internal medicine resident training
but may impact quality and equity of care delivered in practices that include resident …

Importance Peer relationships may motivate physicians to aspire to high professional
standards but have not been a major focus of quality improvement efforts. Objective To …

Background: Physician scores on examinations decline with time after graduation. However,
whether this translates into declining quality of care is unknown. Our objective was to …

Background Despite new incentives for US primary care, concerns abound that patient-
centered practice capabilities are lagging. Objective Describe the practice structure, patient …

Context Unprofessional behaviors in medical school predict high stakes consequences for
practicing physicians, yet little is known about specific behaviors associated with …

Background Patient experience is valuable because it reflects how patients perceive the
care they receive within the healthcare system and is associated with clinical outcomes …

Background: In measuring patients' experiences with individual primary care physicians
(PCPs), the reliability and validity of data based on samples of “established” patients of a …

Importance The internal medicine (IM) chief residency is a position of leadership and honor
common in IM programs, but the goals, responsibilities, and experiences of those who …

Objective: Medical specialty boards have a Maintenance of Certification (MOC) paradigm
whose intention is to ensure high-quality patient care. How the patient experience is affected …