Academic medicine : journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges
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Multicenter Study
The Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy: preliminary psychometrics and group comparisons in Italian physicians.
To examine the psychometrics of the Jefferson Scale of Physician Empathy (JSPE) among a sample of Italian physicians. ⋯ Findings generally provide support for the construct validity and reliability of the Italian version of the JSPE. Further research is needed to determine whether the lack of statistically significant differences in empathy by gender and specialty is related to cultural peculiarities, the translation of the scale, or sampling.
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Multitasking (MT) is a term often applied to emergency medicine (EM), but it is still poorly understood. In an effort to facilitate MT research in EM, the authors conducted this pilot study to describe EM residents' scores on a Multi-Tasking Assessment Tool (MTAT) and compare these scores with the residents' work efficiency in the emergency department. ⋯ This pilot study further validates the MTAT and lays the groundwork for further research in MT in EM. Resident year of training and MTAT scores explain the variability in resident work efficiency significantly more than medical knowledge. Understanding MT ability may ultimately help in resident selection, education, and remediation as well as career counseling and improvement of practice systems in EM.
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To develop a software-based model to determine which combination of attendings working with/without residents and/or midlevel providers (MLP) was most cost-efficient for incremental staffing in an academic emergency department (ED). ⋯ Incrementally staffing an academic ED with a ratio of one attending per resident achieves the lowest cost, but other models are minimally more expensive. The model allows an ED administrator to determine the costs of different models.