Table 2.

Activity categories recorded for attending activities not involving learners.

Documenting: Attending inputs data into the medical chart or dictates to a scribe.

Chart review: Attending looks at patient data on the computer or asks a scribe to read data from computer.

Initial patient care: The first time the attending enters the patient room. (It was also documented whether the attending saw patients alongside residents or independently.)

Re-evaluation patient care: Subsequent times the attending enters a patient room.

Emergency medical services’ (EMS) report: Attending listens to EMS calls.

Break: Attending takes personal time, including using personal phone, e-mail, eating, using restroom.

Socializing: Attending speaks with team members about topics unrelated to medical care.

Sign-out: Attending takes sign-out from oncoming team.

Walking: Attending walks between ED locations while not engaged in another activity.

Phone call: Attending is on the phone with consultants or other hospital staff.

Team communication: Attending speaks with members of the team other than residents or advanced practice providers (eg, nurses, techs, pharmacists).

ED, emergency department.