Multidisciplinary approach to maximise continuity in an academic internal medicine resident clinic

[摘要] Ensuring patient–physician continuity in anacademic internal medicine resident clinicis essential in providing a longitudinal clinicexperience as required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education(ACGME).1 Efforts to improve continuity in longitudinal clinics are important topatients and physicians and improve patientoutcomes.2 Concern for declining patientcontinuity identified by subjective patient andresident complaints prompted investigatingenterprise metrics to better understand continuity within resident clinics. These metrics,as well as ACGME requirements for longitudinal continuity clinic, drove improvementefforts to increase continuity. Our aim wasto increase patient continuity in all residentclinics to ≥75% in 4 months.

[学科分类] 药学

[关键词] primary care;continuity of patient care;graduate medical education;ambulatory care