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 Data comparing patient experiences between general medicine teaching
and nonteaching hospitalist services are lacking. OBJECTIVE Evaluate hospitalized …

Background Few population-based data are available on the quality of outpatient care
provided by resident physicians in the US. Objective To assess the quality of outpatient care …

Importance Graduate medical education (GME) funding consists of more than $10 billion
annual subsidies awarded to academic hospitals to offset the cost of resident training. Critics …

Purpose Patient care quality appears to be similar when delivered by trainee and attending
physicians. The authors conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine …

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 Evaluation of trainees in graduate medical education training programs using
Milestones has been in place since 2013. It is not known whether trainees who have lower …

BACKGROUND Payers are increasingly holding hospitals accountable for patients'
experiences with their care. This may conflict with another trend among US hospitals …

OBJECTIVE: Instruments available to evaluate attending physicians fail to address their
diverse roles and responsibilities in current inpatient practice. We developed a new …

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 …