Table 3.
Program Directors’ and Residents’ Opinions Regarding Problems Resulting from the Presence of a Weekly Half-Day Longitudinal Outpatient Experience During Inpatient Rotations, 2007*
| Variable | No (%) | A little (%) | A lot (%) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residents | Program directors | Residents | Program directors | Residents | Program directors | |
| Competing inpatient and outpatient responsibilities | 25.1 | 11.9 | 46.6 | 51.4 | 28.3 | 36.7 |
| Duty-hours regulations | 61.0 | 58.7 | 26.5 | 30.7 | 12.5 | 10.6 |
| Fragmentation of inpatient care | 30.8 | 24.4 | 44.4 | 52.5 | 24.8 | 23.0 |
| Inpatient “hand-offs” | 42.7 | 40.5 | 39.9 | 39.5 | 17.4 | 20.0 |
| Interruption/delays in providing outpatient care because of inpatient responsibilities | 38.5 | 31.3 | 39.4 | 47.5 | 22.2 | 21.2 |
| Travel time between clinic and inpatient units | 58.8 | 56.1 | 27.7 | 32.7 | 13.5 | 11.2 |
*This table shows program directors’ and residents’ responses to the question “…on an inpatient rotation, has the presence of a weekly half-day longitudinal outpatient experience been problematic with regard to any of the following” for the sample of 218 program directors and 14,510 categorical and primary care internal medicine residents responding to these questions on the 2007 Internal Medicine In-Training Examination Program Directors Survey and Residents Questionnaire